Paige Elizabeth Speaks

5 ways to know if it's actually your nervous system!
1. Your cycles are still regular.
Nervous system strain can cause fatigue, anxiety, poor sleep, and weight resistance while cycles remain clockwork. True perimenopause is typically marked by cycle variability over time — shortened cycles, lengthening cycles, or skipped ovulations.
2. No clear tissue moisture changes.
If you are not seeing progressive vaginal dryness, skin dryness, or changes in cervical fluid patterns, that weakens the case for estrogen decline. Nervous system dysregulation can feel awful, but it does not typically drive the same tissue-level moisture shifts on its own.
3. Symptoms track stress more than your cycle.
When sleep, anxiety, palpitations, or fatigue clearly worsen after emotional load, overtraining, under-fueling, or life pressure, the nervous system is heavily involved. Hormonal transition tends to show more cycle-linked patterning.
4. Your body responds quickly to regulation.
If improving sleep, nutrition, minerals, and nervous system work moves the needle within weeks, that strongly suggests a stress physiology component. Pure ovarian aging is slower and less immediately reversible.
5. You’ve had prolonged overdrive.
Years of high output, under-recovery, chronic dieting, or emotional hypervigilance often produce HPA axis strain that mimics “perimenopause symptoms” while ovarian function is still relatively intact.
Important reality check:
Cycle irregularity and tissue dryness are among the strongest clinical clues of true perimenopause — but even ovulatory disruption can be influenced by stress, under-fueling, thyroid issues, or other physiology. That’s why context matters.
Stop calling it perimenopause when the truth is your body needs nurturing. #nervoussystem #perimenopause

4 hours ago | [YT] | 1

Paige Elizabeth Speaks

It's almost done. There will be a few adjustments.
For context, I am a 43yr old woman. I am the plaintiff on 8 lawsuits currently.

I also run my own business. It's A LOT!! And there is NO way I could do this if my nervous system was not regulated. This requires, confronting things in real time, unpacking things as you go, digesting and releasing trauma, proper nutrition, stabilizing meals, proper exercise and a personal container for structure.

If you are suffering from:
-weight gain or stall
-blood sugar swings
-insulin resistance
- tired but wired
-inability to get a full nights rest
-chronic fatigue
-brain fog
-night sweats or hot flashes
-anxiety/moodiness
-bloating/indigestion
-feeling lost or purposeless

Then congratulations it's NOT PERIMENOPAUSE!!!!! Its your nervous system and its so much easier to fix the. you think!!!

Because despite the load I carry, I do not have these issues. I did, until I addressed them. Because stress is not about whats on your plate, it's about how you relate to it. And you don't need less responsibility you need more traction and resilience!
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2 days ago | [YT] | 5

Paige Elizabeth Speaks

3 Steps to Better Nervous System Wellness
If your nervous system is dysregulated, nothing else stabilizes long-term. Not hormones. Not productivity. Not mindset hacks.
You have to work it from three angles: physical, mental, and emotional.
1. Physical — Stabilize Your Blood Sugar
Your nervous system cannot regulate if your cells don’t have fuel. Blood sugar crashes spike cortisol. Chronic spikes create fatigue, anxiety, and brain fog.
Eat real meals. Protein first. Don’t skip meals thinking you’re being disciplined. A starved body is a stressed body.
Regulation starts with glucose stability.
2. Mental — Stop Catastrophic Forecasting
Most nervous systems are not reacting to reality — they’re reacting to imagined future threat.
Notice when your brain jumps to worst-case scenarios. Interrupt it. Ask: What is actually happening right now?
Bring your mind back to present data, not projected fear. The nervous system calms when the mind stops predicting danger.
3. Emotional — Feel It Without Becoming It
Unprocessed emotion keeps the body in defense mode. Grief, anger, betrayal — if it’s not metabolized, it stays stored.
You don’t have to collapse into your emotions. But you do have to acknowledge them.
Name it. Sit with it. Let it move.
Suppression is stimulation.
Integration is regulation.
Your nervous system isn’t broken. It’s responding to load.
Reduce the load physically.
Clarify the mind mentally.
Process the emotion honestly.
That’s how stability returns.

6 days ago (edited) | [YT] | 4

Paige Elizabeth Speaks

Stop scapegoating your symptoms.
Your body is not betraying you.
Your hormones are not randomly “failing.”
And you are not falling apart because you hit 40.
What most women are calling “hormonal chaos” is very often a nervous system that has been running in survival mode for years.
When the body perceives chronic stress, it reallocates resources. Cortisol rises. Blood sugar becomes unstable. Inflammation increases. Sleep fragments. Recovery slows. Over time, hormone signaling gets disrupted — not because your body is defective, but because it is trying to keep you alive.
Hormones respond to the environment you create internally.
A dysregulated nervous system can suppress progesterone, impair thyroid function, worsen insulin resistance, and amplify estrogen dominance. Then we blame the hormones instead of asking the better question:
Why does my body feel unsafe?
You cannot supplement your way out of a survival state.
You cannot out-workout it.
And you definitely cannot mindset your way past physiology.
Regulation is the foundation.
When the nervous system shifts out of constant fight-or-flight, the body becomes more receptive, inflammation lowers, metabolic pathways improve, and hormone balance becomes far more attainable.
Your symptoms are not the enemy.
They are communication.
Stop treating them like a malfunction and start listening to what they are protecting.
Healing is not about forcing the body — it is about creating enough safety that the body no longer has to fight so hard.

1 week ago | [YT] | 5

Paige Elizabeth Speaks

Most people think cortisol is the problem.

It’s not.

Cortisol is your adaptation hormone — it gives you energy, focus, and the ability to handle stress.

What dysregulates cortisol is living in a constant state of demand without signaling safety back to the body.

Here are 5 ways to bring cortisol down:

1. Eat enough.
Under-fueling forces the body to raise cortisol to stabilize blood sugar. Your brain interprets restriction as famine — not discipline.

2. Stop overtraining.
More intensity is not always better. If your workouts leave you depleted, your nervous system is paying the price.

3. Go to sleep at consistent times.
Irregular sleep confuses your brain’s clock and disrupts your cortisol rhythm. Stable evenings create regulated mornings.

4. Reduce hyper-vigilance.
Always anticipating, always managing, always “on” keeps the body in a low-grade threat response. Boundaries are biological — not just emotional.

5. Make decisions. Take action.
Indecision keeps the brain scanning for threat because the loop is still open.
Clarity tells the nervous system: we handled it.

Even hard decisions are more regulating than prolonged avoidance.

The goal isn’t low cortisol.

The goal is flexible cortisol — rising when needed, falling when the moment passes.

Regulated bodies are not built through willpower.

They are built through signals of safety.
#cortisol #nervoussystemhealing

1 week ago | [YT] | 6

Paige Elizabeth Speaks

Brain fog is one of the most normalized symptoms in modern life — but just because it’s common doesn’t mean it’s normal.

Most people assume brain fog is caused by stress, aging, hormones, or “just having too much on their plate.” But what often gets overlooked is something far more foundational:

👉 how your brain is using fuel.

Your brain is one of the most energy-demanding organs in your body, and its preferred fuel is glucose. But here’s the catch — glucose has to actually *get into the cells* to be used effectively.

When glucose uptake is inefficient, the brain doesn’t produce energy as cleanly. The result can feel like mental drag:

• trouble focusing
• slower processing
• forgetfulness
• low mental stamina
• that “cotton head” sensation

This is where micronutrients quietly matter.

Chromium picolinate is a trace mineral known for supporting insulin sensitivity — in other words, helping your body move glucose into cells more efficiently. When glucose delivery improves, many people notice more stable energy and clearer thinking throughout the day.

Now — it’s not a magic pill, and brain fog is rarely caused by just one thing. Sleep, inflammation, stress load, hormones, nutrition, and nervous system regulation all play roles.

But supporting metabolic health is one of the most overlooked starting points for cognitive clarity.

If your brain feels like it’s running on low battery, it may not be a motivation problem.

It may be a fuel utilization problem.

Your body is always communicating — sometimes brain fog isn’t something to push through… it’s something to get curious about.
#brainfog

1 week ago | [YT] | 3

Paige Elizabeth Speaks

If sleep is hard, it’s usually not because you’re “bad at resting.”
It’s because your nervous system never powered down.
A few things that actually help — and why they work:
Physical exertion.
Movement is one of the best sleep aids there is. It clears adrenaline and cortisol. If you don’t discharge stress during the day, your body will try to process it at night — through racing thoughts or restlessness.
Heat before bed.
A hot shower or bath isn’t just relaxing. Heat dilates blood vessels, and the cooling that follows drops core temperature — one of the strongest biological signals for sleep onset. You’re cueing the brain that it’s safe to shut down.
Deep pressure.
Weighted blankets aren’t sedatives. They provide containment. Steady pressure calms sensory input and lowers autonomic arousal, reducing the background noise that keeps people awake.
Sleep positioning matters.
For some nervous systems, sleeping on the belly works fast. Prone positioning creates gentle pressure across the front of the body, supports diaphragmatic breathing, and reduces vigilance — which can quiet mental overactivity almost immediately.
Hypothalamus reset practices.
Often taught for temperature regulation, these practices influence sleep, circadian rhythm, hormones, and stress responses. When the hypothalamus recalibrates, sleep often improves even when nothing else has worked.
Magnesium can help. Supplements can help.
But no pill overrides a nervous system that still feels activated.
Sleep comes when the body feels resolved, warm, contained, and safe — not when you force it.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 4

Paige Elizabeth Speaks

If you’re doing “everything right” and your weight still won’t budge — or you feel sleepy, heavy, or unstable when you eat — it’s often not calories. It’s cortisol-induced insulin resistance.
When your nervous system is stuck in sympathetic dominance (chronic stress, pressure, vigilance, under-recovery), your body prioritizes survival hormones over metabolic efficiency. Cortisol becomes the dominant signal. And cortisol’s job is not fat loss — it’s glucose preservation for threat.
Here’s what that looks like in real life:
• your body stops partitioning glucose efficiently
• insulin signaling becomes blunted temporarily
• you may feel sleepy or nauseous after eating
• fat loss stalls even in a mild deficit
• your body slows down to conserve energy, not because you’re “lazy,” but because it’s adaptive
This is why stress can cause weight gain, plateaus, or even weight loss resistance — even when food intake is reasonable. From the body’s perspective, a calorie deficit + high stress = danger. And when the body perceives danger, it will choose cortisol over insulin every time.
That’s also why some people feel worse when they push harder: more restriction, more protein obsession, more training, more discipline — all layered on top of an already taxed nervous system.
This isn’t about willpower. It’s about regulation.
Weight stability and fat loss require a nervous system that feels resourced enough to stop guarding energy. Sometimes that means restoring safety before chasing outcomes. Sometimes it means supporting blood sugar and stress physiology at the same time. And sometimes it means realizing your body isn’t broken — it’s responding intelligently to the inputs it’s been given.
If this resonates and you’re curious about a nervous-system-first approach to health, metabolism, and recovery, that’s the work I do. #weightloss #cortisol #stress #nervoussytem

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 4

Paige Elizabeth Speaks

Yesterday I was on the phone with a friend I’ve known for years. She struggles deeply with self-love, and she’s frustrated that her children don’t respect her boundaries. But the truth is, she has no internal boundaries.
She doesn’t want to be mistreated on the outside — yet internally, she is her own harshest critic. Constant self-berating. No protection. No kindness. And this matters, because people don’t just respond to what we say — they respond to what we commit to internally. When there’s no internal boundary, the outside world mirrors that.
What most people don’t realize is that extreme self-criticism isn’t humility — it’s a defense mechanism. I know this because I used to do it too. The logic goes like this: If I’m brutal to myself, no one else can hurt me. No one can say anything worse than what I already say inside. It feels like protection.
But it’s not. It’s a trap.
That strategy never heals the original rupture — it just guarantees you’ll keep living inside it. The pain you’re trying to avoid becomes chronic, because you’ve turned it into an identity instead of something that can be repaired.
Loving yourself actually takes courage. Not because it’s indulgent — but because it removes the armor. And when you remove the armor, the work becomes real.
No one can consistently treat you better than the way you treat yourself. Not because they’re cruel — but because the nervous system always tells the truth.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 5

Paige Elizabeth Speaks

Most people think they’re fighting the problem.
The ex.
The custody battle.
The burnout.
The money stress.
The body symptoms.
The constant power struggles.
But those aren’t the problem.
They’re symptoms.
The real problem usually started years ago — often decades ago — when you made a decision to abandon yourself in order to stay safe, be chosen, keep the peace, or survive a situation you didn’t yet have the power to leave.
That choice made sense at the time.
It protected you.
It helped you get through.
But self-abandonment doesn’t disappear. It compounds.
What isn’t resolved internally eventually shows up externally — in your relationships, your health, your nervous system, and your circumstances. And then we fight the symptom as if that’s the source.
It isn’t.
Power struggles aren’t really about the other person.
Chronic stress isn’t really about your workload.
Feeling trapped isn’t really about your situation.
They’re signals pointing back to the moment you learned that staying connected to yourself wasn’t safe.
This isn’t about blame. It’s about responsibility.
You didn’t create your wounds — but if you keep fighting the symptom instead of repairing the original self-betrayal, the pattern will keep recreating itself with new faces and new details.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth most people avoid:
You don’t heal by fighting your life harder.
You heal by ending the war you’ve been waging against yourself.
When that internal rupture is repaired, the external conflict loses its fuel. Not because you tolerated more — but because you stopped abandoning yourself.
That’s where real change starts.

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