Hi, I'm Dr. Ali.

I’m a triple board-certified physician and the creator of the DistressRx™ Validation Tool—a quiz designed to help you understand your unique stress response.

After working with high-performing women for over a decade, I started to notice a pattern…Women doing everything “right”—yet feeling more anxious, exhausted, and out of control during this phase of life.

And it wasn’t just hormones.
It was their stress response.

The DistressRx™ Quiz will give you clarity on your stress response pattern—so you can finally make sense of what you’ve been feeling and feel more in control again.

Discover Your Stress Type

Take the 3-minute stress type quiz to identify exactly how your body responds to stress — and why this phase of life may feel harder than expected.

Created by Dr. Ali Novitsky, MD
Triple board-certified physician + founder of The FIT Collective®

Most Women In Perimenopause Are Told The Same Things...

“Eat better.”
“Move more.”

But what happens when you’re already doing those things…
…and you still feel off?

• More reactive.
• More exhausted.
• More disconnected from your body. And yes—your hormones are shifting.

But that’s not the full picture.

Hormones alone don’t explain everything you’re experiencing. Things like:

• Why you can’t turn your brain off at night
• Why you swing between pushing harder and shutting down
• Why your metabolism suddenly feels resistant
• Why your emotions feel bigger, faster, and harder to regulate
• Why your body isn’t responding the way it used to

It starts to feel confusing… and honestly, a little defeating.

But here’s what most people miss:

👉 What you’re experiencing isn’t random. It follows a pattern.

A pattern in how your body has learned to respond under pressure—
and in perimenopause, that response is often intensified.

A pattern shaped over years,
now becoming more visible, more reactive, more difficult to ignore.

And once you understand your pattern—

👉 everything begins to make sense.
👉 And more importantly… it becomes something you can change.

Inside the Quiz, You Will Discover:

 ✔ Your Unique Stress Type

✔ How stress is showing up in your body + behavior

✔ Why your current strategies may not be working

✔ The first step to regulating your nervous system

THE 6 STRESS TYPES

Under stress, most high-performing women don’t just “feel stressed”…they fall into predictable patterns.

You may recognize yourself in one of these:

• Assertive Distress
• Control Distress
• Validation Distress
• Impulsivity Distress
• Isolation Distress
• Catastrophizing Distress

These aren’t flaws. They’re adaptive stress responses.

And once you understand yours…you can begin to retrain it.

Nothing Has Gone Wrong...
This isn’t about fixing yourself.

It’s about learning how your brain, body, and metabolism respond to stress…

So you can finally work with yourself instead of against yourself.

Once you discover your type, you’ll also get:

• Personalized insights
• Simple regulation tools
• And a next step to help you actually reset your system.