Healing Chronic Stress at the Root with Emotion Release Technique
Originally published: 6 December 2023 Last updated: 7 June 2025
If you’re constantly running on empty, snapping at the smallest things, or waking up tired even after a full night’s sleep—you’re not alone. Chronic stress is one of the biggest issues I see in my clients. In fact, I’d say about 95% of the women I work with are experiencing some form of long-term, unresolved stress that’s affecting their health and wellbeing.
And it’s not your fault.
Our modern lives are set up to feed the stress response—endless responsibilities, constant noise, and barely any time to truly rest. The nervous system was never designed to live like this. And while supplements, adaptogens, flower essences, magnesium, meditation, and morning walks all have their place—they often don’t address the root cause.
What Chronic Stress Actually Does to Your Body
Chronic stress isn’t just a mental experience—it’s a full-body response. When your nervous system gets stuck in a sympathetic (fight-or-flight) state, it pours energy into survival rather than healing or restoring.
This can lead to:
Depleted nutrients like magnesium, B vitamins, and vitamin C
Hormonal chaos and irregular cycles
Sleep disturbances and racing thoughts
Digestive issues and food intolerances
Brain fog and emotional reactivity
A general sense of “I just can’t cope anymore”
Many of my clients are surprised to realise just how deeply stress is affecting their body. They’ve been pushing through for so long that their baseline is dysregulated—but they think it’s just “normal”.
Why Traditional Stress Support Isn’t Enough
Don’t get me wrong—herbal tonics, acupuncture, rest, and even a good cry can do wonders. But chronic stress isn’t just about what’s happening now.
It’s often about what happened years ago.
Your stress response may have been shaped by old beliefs and emotional patterns like:
“It’s all up to me.”
“I’m only valuable if I’m productive.”
“If I stop, everything will fall apart.”
“Asking for help means I’m failing.”
These beliefs often come from childhood or past relationships and become wired into your nervous system. They drive your behaviour, emotional patterns, and stress response—whether you’re aware of it or not.
How Emotion Release Technique Helps
ERT works directly with the nervous system and subconscious to release the emotional root causes of stress—without needing to relive trauma or talk everything through.
In an ERT session, we:
Identify what your nervous system feels unsafe around (rest, asking for help, slowing down)
Muscle test to find the belief or emotion that’s stuck
Use EFT-style acupressure and release sentences to clear the charge
Confirm the shift and allow the nervous system to settle into a new, regulated baseline
Clients often say they feel a weight lift off their chest, or a deep breath they didn’t know they were holding. Many report sleeping better, feeling more patient, and not reacting as intensely to life’s curveballs after just one session.
This Is About More Than Just Feeling Calm
Stress is not just a discomfort—it’s a major driver of inflammation, chronic disease, burnout, and emotional disconnection. Healing your stress patterns is essential if you want to feel vibrant, content, and connected again.
Emotion Release Technique helps:
Restore calm and clarity in your mind
Bring the body back into rest-and-digest mode
Increase your capacity to handle life’s demands
Release guilt, overwhelm, and mental load
Reconnect you with a sense of inner steadiness
And most importantly? You don’t need to do anything at home. There’s no homework, no extra load—just real, immediate support that helps your body heal from the inside out.
A Real-Life Shift
A woman I worked with last year (let’s call her Kara) came to me feeling like she was failing at life. She had a successful business, three kids, and a great partner—but inside, she was drowning. She couldn’t stop crying in the pantry, yelling at her kids, or lying awake at night planning every moment of tomorrow.
After her first session, she cried—relieved to realise it wasn’t about being broken. Her nervous system was just overloaded. Over the next few sessions, we released the belief that she had to hold it all together, that her worth was tied to doing more, and that rest was unsafe.
By the end of our work together, Kara wasn’t just coping—she was thriving. She’d created more space in her week, stopped apologising for needing support, and felt like herself again.
You Deserve to Feel Better
You don’t need to keep pushing through. Chronic stress doesn’t have to be your baseline. You can soften into a different way of living—one where your nervous system feels safe, your body feels supported, and your emotions feel seen and gently released.
Ready to begin?
Book a 1:1 ERT session with me or join my weekly Upgrade Your Life with ERT Membership to receive regular support, clear emotional patterns, and build a new foundation for your health—one that starts with nervous system safety and emotional ease.
