My life changed drastically 3 months ago when I left some significant stressors behind. I’ve had an interesting journey as I release stress and am learning about the effects of chronic stress. For instance, it can act as a veil that separates us from our true nature. In this article, I describe what it is like to start to destress after 5 years of chronic stress.

We get advice on how to live our lives, what we should do, and what we shouldn’t do from many sources. It can be very difficult to find our deepest, most aligned truth in the barrage of opinions and outside information. With an analogy of a “dressing room”, it may be easier to claim our truth even in the face of many outside beliefs, opinions, and experiences with which we diverge when we are aligned with our Essential Self.