Julie

The work that you are doing is a privilege and an honour to be part of.

I think you need some bloods done, consider blood sugar tests to eliminate hypoglycaemia. The overwhelming impression I get is a low level anxiety response, stiffness in the back but no throat response shows adrenal generalised anxiety I think. Usually there is a fear, and you describe a great deal of tension. The early morning waking is an early sign of transition to higher anxiety. You describe an obvious health issue, if it were me I would get it checked out.

An ACE score of 2 or 3 with high resilience is going to mean you push yourself because you believe you can cope, I sense from your story that this means like V, you take a great deal on, more than you should because your resilience is high. That I think explains the tiredness, just over burdening. your score is almost identical to mine, so I recognised the patterning.

Let us consider strategies you can use to help yourself, this high resilience will give you drive which means planning in down time deliberately and exercise to burn off the adrenalin. You are one of the high achieversin life., that's the good news! The stress it takes on your body is another.

I am going to address the issues of your tar and childhood in another post. The ACE score tells me you have been holding yourself back and I think the high criticism from childhood has created cognitive dissonance between your capability and others vision of your achievement. This may be a classic fear that of success. It puts you in an unfamiliar place vis your childhood. It's blocking.

V


Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose.
V 64, WAW