A Book by Clare Louise Mortimer
The Cortisol Reset
Evolution’s Masterpiece, Modern Life Problem
General release 31 August 2026“When the most exquisite thing evolution designed collides with modern life, the result is a cascade of disease.”
Are you exhausted but can’t sleep? Gaining weight despite trying everything? Losing your sharpness, your drive, your sense of who you used to be? You are not imagining it, and you are not alone. What you are living with has a name, a mechanism, and a way out.
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About the book
The story your body has been trying to tell
You’re wired at night, then exhausted by morning. You need coffee, or some herbal upper, to get through the day, then reach for the wine to switch off at night. Your patience is shorter than it used to be. You forget things. You can’t concentrate. You no longer feel like yourself.
Or perhaps it wasn’t you. Perhaps it was your partner, your parent, your child, or someone you once knew. They became anxious, withdrawn, irritable or impossible to reach, and you were left wondering what happened.
People rarely change overnight. It happens gradually, so gradually that we blame stress, work, hormones, getting older or personality, never realising they may all be different chapters in the same story.
The Cortisol Reset follows that story back to one of the body’s most remarkable survival systems. Blending neuroscience, physiology and lived experience, Clare Louise Mortimer explains why a system designed to protect us can gradually lose its ability to keep us in balance, changing the way we think, feel, remember, respond and recover.
This isn’t simply a book about understanding what goes wrong. It is about understanding what helps and why. As the science unfolds, so does a practical path forward, explaining why approaches as diverse as movement, breathwork, nature, sleep, hypnosis, NLP and simple moments of curiosity can all influence the same underlying system in different ways.
This is not another stress management book, nor is it a collection of quick fixes. It is an invitation to understand why people change, to see yourself and those around you with fresh eyes, and to discover that the way back begins with understanding the story your body has been trying to tell.
From the back cover
“When the most exquisite thing evolution designed collides with modern life, the result is a cascade of disease.”
Are you exhausted but can’t sleep? Gaining weight despite trying everything? Losing your sharpness, your drive, your sense of who you used to be? You are not imagining it and you are not alone. What you are living with has a name, a mechanism, and a way out.
Cortisol is not the enemy. It is one of the most sophisticated systems in the human body, built for survival. But it was designed for a world that no longer exists, and modern life is running it into the ground. When demand outstrips capacity for long enough, everything starts to break down in ways that talking therapies cannot reach and medication cannot fix, because neither addresses the cause. The Cortisol Reset shows you what is actually happening in your body, why it started earlier than you think, and how to reset it at the level where the problem actually lives.
Recognise any of these?
If this sounds familiar, this book is for you
The same signs, explained from the inside out.
The 3am wake
Wired at midnight, exhausted by midday. Sleep that won’t come, or won’t restore you, however tired you are.
The personality you don’t recognise
Less patient, quicker to react, or flat and disinterested. Brain fog. Words you can’t find. The room you walked into for a reason you’ve forgotten.
Your body is complaining
The gut playing up. The weight around the midriff that won’t shift. Physical signs nobody has connected to the same cause.
Someone you love has changed
Anxious, withdrawn, irritable or impossible to reach. You’re left wondering what happened, and when.
Why this book is different
Not another stress management book
Most books on this subject work on the input or the output — think differently, build more resilience, top up what’s been depleted. The Cortisol Reset goes further back, to the survival system underneath all of it, and explains why it can lose its ability to switch off in the first place.
Drawing on neuroscience, physiology and Clare’s own years working as a trauma specialist in A&E, it connects the dots between symptoms that usually get treated separately, and shows why approaches as different as movement, breathwork, sleep, hypnosis, NLP and simple curiosity can all reach the same underlying system.
About the author
Clare Louise Mortimer
Clare spent years working as a trauma specialist in A&E — a senior sister and nurse practitioner working in a high-stakes, relentless environment with no room for error. She coped until the system took more than she had to give, and burnt out completely.
CBT didn’t touch it. Medication managed the symptoms. Hypnotherapy changed the actual pattern, at a level that talking had never reached. That’s why she retrained as a clinical hypnotherapist, and why The Cortisol Reset is written from both the clinical and the lived side of burnout.
She has lived this mechanism from the inside. This book is how she got out.
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<p>You’re not your old self: less patient than you were, irritable and reacting to silly things, emotions all over the place, or feeling flat and disinterested, no motivation. The brain fog that has you reading the same paragraph three times and still not taking it in. The words you can’t find. Forgetting what you came into a room for.</p>
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<h3>Your eyes paying the price</h3>
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<h2 class=”section-title”>You know something’s wrong</h2>
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<p>You’ve read about it, been told about it, maybe looked it up at 3am when the sleep wouldn’t come. You have a good idea of what is going on in your body. And you feel completely powerless to change it. Because the harder you try to push through, the more your body pushes back. The sleep that won’t come however tired you are. The weight that won’t shift however carefully you eat. The concentration you can’t force back however much you need it. Your body is running a programme of its own, and the part of you that understands what needs to happen cannot reach the part that’s keeping things exactly where they are.</p>
<p>The frustrating part is that you’ve probably already tried the obvious answers. The holiday that didn’t fix it. The early nights that didn’t restore you. Maybe the talking therapy that brought everything up without moving anything. And you’re still here, still running on empty, still wondering why none of it is actually working.</p>
<p>Underneath all of it sits a quiet guilt that you’re the one who can’t seem to get on top of this, when from the outside you look like someone who has everything managed. Feeling powerless to change how you feel even though you have a good idea of what is going on in your body is so common. Helping you to switch off the cortisol pump and allowing you to reset is my job.</p>
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<h2 class=”section-title”>Why the standard approaches haven’t worked</h2>
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<p>CBT asks you to reframe what you’re thinking. Resilience training asks you to build more capacity. Self-care asks you to top up what’s been depleted. All of these work on the input or the output. None of them touch the reset.</p>
<p>When life demands more from you than your system can handle for too long, without enough recovery in between, the body can get stuck in stress mode. Even when the pressure eases, it does not fully switch off. Rest stops feeling restorative because the recovery system is no longer functioning properly. This is a real physiological state with a real mechanism behind it, which means it needs more than generic self-care to resolve it.</p>
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<h2 class=”section-title”>How the Cortisol Reset works</h2>
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<p>Using clinical hypnotherapy, NLP, EFT and breathwork, the work interrupts the patterns your nervous system has learned to run, moves the body out of chronic activation, and rebuilds your capacity to actually recover. Not by talking about feelings until the session ends. By changing the pattern itself.</p>
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<p class=”section-eyebrow”>About Clare</p>
<h2 class=”section-title”>I know what it looks like when demand outstrips your ability to manage it. Because I lived it.</h2>
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<p>I spent years working as a trauma specialist in A&E. A senior sister and nurse practitioner. High stakes, relentless pressure, no room for error. The kind of environment where you absorb other people’s worst days as part of the job. I coped until the system took more than I had to give. By the time I recognised what was happening, the damage was already done. I burnt out completely.</p>
<p>The CBT didn’t touch it. The medication managed the symptoms. Hypnotherapy changed the actual pattern, at a level that talking had never reached. That’s why I retrained. And that’s why I work the way I do.</p>
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<p>If you are ready to change all this, the first step is a no obligation 30-minute chat to find out what’s going on and whether I believe I can help you.</p>
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