Is Cortisol Running the Show All Day Long?

I used to wake up already exhausted. Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep fixes, but the deep, bone-level fatigue that makes you question everything. Stiff back, achy hips, anxious by mid-morning and completely done by 3pm. And yet, at 3am in the middle of the night, my mind would wake up like it did the night before a field day in the third …