Sometimes, when we’ve been carrying too much for too long, our nervous system begins to protect us in different ways.
You may have spent a long time in fight or flight — pushing through, staying busy, anticipating what might happen next, trying to keep everyone else okay.
And eventually, your body may simply say:
Enough.
This can be where burnout, exhaustion and shutdown begin to show themselves.
It isn’t laziness.
It isn’t weakness.
It isn’t you failing.
It may be a body that has been surviving for a very long time.