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“You need to pull out the big guns on this one,” she said. I had spent nine years helping victims of trauma, and the stress that put on my body and mind finally caught up to me. I was diagnosed with PTSD and stage three adrenal fatigue. My doctor looked me square in the eyes with those words, and I knew she was right. If I didn’t make some drastic changes, this was just going to get worse.

Adrenal fatigue seems to be a epidemic these days. In most cases it is stress induced and…