The 5 Resets: Rewire Your Brain and Body for Less Stress and More Resilience

When we’re stressed, our brains have an uncanny ability to rise up and meet the moment by compartmentalizing inconvenient aspects of ourselves that don’t help with our immediate self-preservation. But after the acute stressful experience has passed and things have settled down, like at bedtime, our true emotions come to the surface.

Your brain is built like a dam that recognizes acute crisis and holds it all together so that you can do what is needed in the moment. Then once the acute threat has passed and you feel psychologically safe, the dam breaks, you let your guard down, and your true emotions come to the surface. It’s a deluge.