When emotional stress builds, it can become physical — affecting your energy, concentration, sleep and ability to make decisions. Here’s what happens when your system becomes overloaded and some simple ways to help yourself regain your footing.

We’re very good at pushing through fatigue, stress, poor sleep and the feeling that something just isn’t right. But by the time the body starts yelling, it may have been whispering for quite a while. What if better health sometimes begins simply by paying attention?