April is National Stress Awareness Month, which has been observed since 1992. The original idea wasn't to pile on. It was to get people to stop treating stress like it's just part of the deal. And yet here we are. Most of us have gotten very good at functioning under chronic stress. Too good, really. We adapt, we adjust, we keep going, and at some point the stress stops feeling like stress and just starts feeling like life. That's worth pausing on. The first quarter of the ye