12/12/2025
The Cost of Chronic Stress
Chronic stress doesn’t just feel exhausting, it actively disrupts your heart-brain coherence.
When your heart rhythms become erratic under stress, they scramble the signals to your brain.
The areas responsible for focus, insight, executive functioning, and intuition go offline.
This is why you can’t think clearly during high-stress periods.
As HeartMath Institute research shows: “When an individual is in a state of stress, the heart rhythm patterns become incoherent, and this incoherence is transmitted to the brain, impairing cognitive function and emotional regulation.”
Your inner compass, that gut sense of what to do next, is offline.
When you learn to restore heart-brain coherence, your clarity returns. Your confidence flows instead of being forced. You stop striving from fear and start creating from presence.
You can be driven AND at peace. ✨
Read the full article on the neuroscience behind high-achiever anxiety: https://brandirosgen.com/blog/