Recover From Stress in 90 Seconds—Even When Life Falls Apart

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You're standing in your kitchen at 7:40 on a Tuesday morning. Your phone buzzed with an email you didn't want to read, and before you even finished your coffee, your chest tightened, your jaw locked, and your mind started racing through every worst-case scenario at once. You've been hijacked. And here's what most people never learn: the chemical surge that just hit you—the adrenaline, the cortisol, the pounding heart—has a natural lifespan of roughly ninety seconds. After that, anything you feel is being generated by you, not by the event. That's not a motivational slogan. It's how neurochemistry works.