Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Why Stress Hits Women Differently 😩💥 (And How to Start Healing Today)

9 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Mona Sharma explains how stress works as the body's survival response, and why recovery time matters more than the stress itself. She distinguishes eustress, the positive stress from exciting events like a new job, from harmful stress. Without enough recovery between stressful moments, even good stress becomes depleting.

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What is stress really? Let's start with the basics. Stress is your body's survival response. It's how your nervous system prepares for a fight or to flee, or in freeze response to a perceived threat. It's not all inherently bad. Then we have eustress. This is a positive stress. It's like starting a new job or having a baby. It still activates the stress response, but it's rooted in excitement or growth. The key is recovery. Without it, good stress really becomes depleting. So yes, stress isn't always bad, but it's how frequently we experience it and how we recover from it that determines whether it's going to be supportive or harmful to our health long term.