What to do When I am Exhausted?

What to do When I am Exhausted?
Are you exhausted?  Like, it's just too much, exhausted?

Yeah, I feel it too.

Sometimes I'm exhausted because I put so much energy into something and haven't had enough time to regain personal and mental space to fill up on energy again.

What is taking up your energy recently?

How do you personally fill up on energy again?

Sometimes, I'm exhausted trying to please all the "red tape" things in life, like filling out tax forms, or taking the dog to the vet, remembering to pick up stamps, or keeping up with continuing education credits for my counseling license.

Sometimes I'm exhausted because I overthink things, and then I connect things to other things in my brain, and I need to turn my brain off for a bit because it's just too much.  And, sometimes, I'm just physically tired.  

I know you've been there.

Exhaustion is a real thing. 

We can see more clearly and not get caught up in a lot of noise in our heads or from the world around us.

To hear more on this topic, listen to this podcast: 15 Therapist Sayings that Can Help You

ANNOUNCEMENT!

The SHINE  Subscription, is about to go live this Saturday, February 15, 2025. The SHINE Subscription is like having a personal coach, a friend, a devotional partner, and a daily planner right at your fingertips as it gives you bite-sized prompts and helpful downloadable tools to use as you go through your day as well as helpful suggestions and mental health tips each week. Best of all, it is just $16 a month to subscribe to something that can definitely make life simpler.  

The first two weeks of the SHINE subscription focus on the concept of rest: personal rest/spiritual rest, and resting in God and include other helpful resources for managing life with less stress. I hope you'll join when it becomes available this Saturday, February 15, 2025.

Each month will have a new theme of focus, so that we can dig deep together and continue to grow and glow in the Lord and in our mental health.

For now, though, I invite you to take a moment and breathe deeply...just for a moment, take in a really slow, deep breath, and slowly, slowly release it.  Rinse and repeat.  This helps your nervous system to reset when you're exhausted, overwhelmed, or stressed, and it just feels so  good when your muscles can  relax and be reenergized.



Where Can I Find the Blessings in my Crazy Week?

Where Can I Find the Blessings in my Crazy Week?
This week has been absolutely crazy.

We've had a car in the shop. My counseling practice has needed me to spend hours on so many pieces of extra paperwork due to it being time for an  insurance attestation (don't ask---it's been a nightmare!)  And, of course, nothing is cooperating tech-wise, and I'm ready to throw the tech out the window 😩.  Yet, there are so many blessings.

What has been a blessing to you this week?

I'll bet you have felt this way at times, too. It's like there are so many good things, and yet, there are stressors.

The key to managing everything is self talk and prayer.

How are you talking to yourself? Positively or negatively?

How you talk to yourself matters. You can either speak soothing, encouraging words, and words of patience to uplift yourself, or you can speak the language of stress, put downs, and labeling. 

And of course, prayer always helps!  Let me tell you, I've been positive self-talking' and praying a whole lot this past week!

Well, here's to rejoicing in the good things, trusting God always, and enduring the stressors of life with grace.

To hear more on this topic, listen to this podcast: 1 Powerful Way to Feel More Confident and Have Better Relationships.

 
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