Your nervous system is running on empty

You're the one who holds it together. For your family, your friends, the people who need you, whoever they are.

And you've been holding for so long your body doesn't know how to stop. You're not being drained from outside. You're spending everything on the inside: bracing, managing, staying ready. A nervous system that never learned it was safe to switch off burns energy all day and all night, and no amount of rest refills what the holding spends.

You know this already. Knowing isn't the problem. The body learns safety through repetition, not insight, and nobody can do that for you. It takes ten minutes a day and the willingness to show up for yourself the way you show up for everyone else.