for when you're emotionally exhausted and running on empty

There's a kind of tired that doesn't show up on your face. You wake up and you're already carrying it. You get through the day and you're still carrying it. Nobody around you knows because you've gotten very good at carrying it.

The exhaustion that comes from being too much for too long, from showing up when you had nothing left, from performing okay when you weren't, from holding things together that weren't yours to hold, that kind of tired doesn't respond to a good night's sleep.

It responds to honesty. It responds to putting some of it down. You don't have to keep carrying all of it right now.

things that might land

You've been performing okay for so long that people forgot to ask if you actually are. Maybe you forgot too.

Rest isn't giving up. It's what you do so that the version of you who finishes this actually exists.

The exhaustion isn't from doing too much. It's from doing things that cost you more than they give back.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

Anne Lamott

You've been strong for long enough. You're allowed to be held for a minute.

I need to hear something right now

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