You Didn't Fail. Everything You Tried Was Aimed at Your Jaw.
The drugstore guard. The one from the dentist. Massage, jaw stretches, maybe Botox. Maybe some of it helped for a while. Then the sore mornings came back, and it's easy to start thinking the problem is you.
It isn't. Almost everything sold for clenching works on your jaw: your teeth, the muscle, the spot that hurts. The rest is advice. But your jaw is only where the tension ends up. So it keeps coming back. Not because you didn't try hard enough. Because of where all of it was aimed.






