Checking Work Messages From Bed

Do you ever have weeks where you feel you’re not filling your cup at all?

Like you are dying for the kids’ bedtime, so you can flop on the couch and then you just end up scrolling for 2 hours before dragging yourself to bed?

The next day, you wake up and feel no better.

In fact, I’m guessing you probably woke up in the night worrying about work, family or money, so you’re feeling even more groggy than usual.

Every day feels like a blur and although you’re meeting the bare minimum requirements at work, feeding your family and keeping some laundry going while the pile to fold grows larger, you feel you just can’t even face the days.

You’re giving out so much energy, but you’re not able to top up as fast as you’re giving out.

Oh hello, that was my story!

Remember these days?

I used to totally buy into the frenzy at work - if there was a problem we were trying to fix, it was all hands on deck.

And those hands weren’t effective either–they were stressed, rushing, unhappy, causing even more issues.

I’d check my Slack the minute I woke up, literally lying in bed in my PJs reading coworker messages. Gross

I’d try and rush and cram in work before the rest of the house woke up.

I’d spend the day checking messages, hurrying through tasks but never doing a good job or finishing them properly.

I’d rush to pick up V, then snap so quickly because I was exhausted.

Bedtime was just another thing for me to rush through and then I’d crash, just like I mentioned at the start.

I had no energy for anything else.

I couldn’t slow down but I also didn’t want to face the way things had become.

Does all of this sound familiar?

It might be work for you, or parenting, or something else, but we deplete the hell out of ourselves and it is exhausting!

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