Tired, Numb, and Anxious? Your Nervous System Is in Survival Mode

The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi · Jan 12, 2026 · 36m

You are exhausted. You are also anxious. And somewhere underneath both of those you have gone a little numb — just going through the motions without feeling much of anything. That combination does not mean you are broken. It means your nervous system has been running an emergency program for so long it has started conserving every resource it has left. Amalya Tagakchyan is a licensed therapist and founder of Untangled Path Therapy who specializes in exactly the women who look functional on the outside and are running on empty underneath — and what she shares about how women's anxiety often…