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Kate Leaver's avatar

Oof! I felt this one in my bones. It’s been my year of low energy, too.

I’ve started thinking a lot about the superpower having low energy gives you, if you let it. When you have a finite amount of energy to spend on things, you start to really notice the effect people have on that energy. Who is taking it? Who is giving it? Whose company uplifts me? Who do I feel myself around? Ooohhhweeeee that’s a big one. I ended a major friendship because I noticed I was drained every time I saw her.

Sounds so obvious, but noticing helps me. Noticing how people make me feel. Noticing where emotions show up in my body. Noticing the way the light hits the leaves on the trees! Noticing when I’m hungry, what I actually feel like eating. Noticing tiny little improvements. Noticing stuff!!!! It’s the one xxx

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Harriet Minter's avatar

This resonated A LOT! Particularly "it's as if my tinnitus doesn't want me to do anything" - I feel that about my body all the time and it's so frustrating. Also, feeling that way then adds to the exhaustion because you just think "well, what's the point anyway!" and then you feel grumpy and lethargic.

The other point that resonated was the "justifying zone" - I think I might be deeply, deeply stuck in that at the moment. So I'm going to make some time and ask myself, what if I was just wrong? I think that's already unlocked something for me, so thank you! xxx

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