Your body cannot distinguish ambition from danger forever if both feel identical.

Effort and threat can feel identical from the inside. Deadlines, financial strain, and constant urgency produce the same physical response as danger, and a body kept in that state for years does not distinguish between the demands you chose and the ones you did not. Eventually it responds to all of it as threat.

Find places to lower the physical intensity even where the ambition stays. Slower mornings, one unhurried meal, an evening with nothing in it. The body reads pace, not purpose.