Everyday worry is a thought-based reaction to a specific situation that resolves once the problem is gone, whereas chronic anxiety is a baseline nervous system state that exists independently of circumstances. While cognitive tools manage symptoms, shifting this underlying baseline requires addressing the subconscious wiring and early nervous system calibrations that keep the body in a state of hypervigilance. You worry about the meeting. You worry about the email. You worry about whether you locked the door. This is normal. This is human. This is what brains do. And then there is the other thing — the constant background hum that has nothing in particular to attach to. The wakefulness at 4am that is not about anything specific. The braced quality of your body when you sit down to dinner. The way every small situation seems to land in your nervous system with a force that is not quite pr