From Burnout to Balance: How Tapping Helped Me Heal My Hormones
Postpartum depletion, adrenal burnout, and the surprising science of EFT.
When people talk about postpartum, they usually focus on the newborn stage—those first sleepless weeks, the chaos, the love, the overwhelm.
But no one really talks about what happens when the sleepless nights don’t end. When your baby becomes a toddler.And you're still up multiple times a night. Years in. Running on fumes.
That was me.
My son was almost two and still waking up throughout the night. I was exhausted. Not just “I need a nap” tired—but the kind of bone-deep, soul-numbing fatigue where you can’t think straight, where you forget who you are, where you cry over coffee commercials and eat scraps of your kid’s lunch standing at the sink.
I was living on caffeine and sugar just to get through the day—chasing energy in all the ways that eventually make it worse.
I knew something was off. But I was also in the thick of it, like so many moms, telling myself: “This is just what it’s like. This is normal.”
Spoiler: it wasn’t.
The Iridologist & the Wake-Up Call
Out of desperation, I booked a session with an iridologist—an alternative practitioner who looks at patterns in the iris to assess what’s going on in the body. She looked into my eyes and said: “Your adrenals are switched on—and they never turn off.”
She explained that my body had been in a constant state of fight-or-flight, That my cortisol levels were through the roof, That my system had adapted to survive, not thrive—and it was burning me out from the inside out.
At the same time, I had just begun my extensive and intensive EFT practitioner training. So while I was being told my body was depleted, I was also learning how to support the nervous system in a deep, somatic, science-backed way.
The Shift That Changed Everything
I started tapping every day. Sometimes for 20 minutes. Sometimes for 5. Sometimes while breastfeeding, sometimes in the car. Tapping on the exhaustion, the resentment, the guilt, the mental load, the fear that I was losing myself. Tapping on feeling unsupported, unseen, and completely done.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) helped regulate my nervous system in ways I didn’t even realize I needed. It gave my body permission to come out of survival mode. It helped shift me out of the chronic cortisol loop—and into a state of repair and rest, even when sleep was still broken.
Six Months Later
I had a follow-up appointment with the same iridologist. She looked at me—same eyes, same mama— and said: “Your adrenals are back to normal. Your cortisol is no longer spiking. Your system is in rest and digest.”
I was thrilled. It wasn’t just that my hormones had shifted—it was that I had. Not because of a magic pill. But because I made nervous system healing a priority. Because I stopped waiting for life to calm down before I started tending to my body.
The Science That Backs It Up
The results I experienced aren’t just anecdotal. Studies show that just one hour of EFT tapping can reduce cortisol levels by up to 43%.
That’s not a mindset shift. That’s a biological shift.
For so many women—especially in perimenopause or postpartum—this matters. When your hormones are in flux and your body is already under pressure, the nervous system is often the missing link. Not willpower. Not another supplement. Not more “doing.”
We don’t need more to-do lists—we need more regulation.
To the Exhausted Moms, the Women in Transition, the Ones Running on Empty…
It’s not your fault. You’re not weak. You’re not bad at self-care.
You’ve just been in survival mode for way too long.
And healing doesn’t have to be hard. It can be 5 minutes of tapping. A breath. A pause. A signal to your body that it’s safe now. That you’re allowed to rest. That you’re allowed to receive.
This is what we practice inside The Healing Hive, and it’s the kind of gentle but powerful re-regulation we work on in my 1:1 sessions.
Your body is not the enemy. It’s the messenger. And tapping helps you finally hear what it’s been trying to say.
