Managing cortisol is just as important as what you eat and how you move your body. In this chapeter, you will find simple, daily rituals to help reset the nervous system and shift out of “fight or flight” into “rest and digest.”

Practices that stimulate the vagus nerve you tell your body: “It’s safe. You can rest, digest, and heal now.” This helps lower cortisol - the stress hormone - thereby improving digestion, and even helping regulate belly fat storage.

When you sit with pen and paper to journal, you’re activating the pathways that shift you out of stress mode and back into rest-and-digest. Writing becomes cathartic, a way to clear mental clutter, and release emotional tension.