I am free from stress.

Stress has two layers and only one of them is the situation. The first is the deadline, the diagnosis, the number at the bottom of the account.

The second is the running commentary about how badly you are handling the first. That is the layer that follows you into the bath.

It shows in the body before the mind will admit it — shoulders somewhere up near the ears, discovered at a red light, dropping four inches the moment they are noticed.

Freedom usually starts there rather than at the source. Not with the situation resolving, which may take months, but with putting down the commentary about it.