The Exhaustion I Didn’t Want to Admit

Some days the body whispers, and other days it screams. Today mine held nothing back. Between inconclusive test results, water rising in the basement, and the weight of questioning everything I thought I was certain about… something in me cracked open.

In the unraveling, I found myself face-to-face with the systems I’ve chosen to step away from, the exhaustion that comes with forging a different path, and the quiet voice inside asking, Is it supposed to feel this hard?

Yet even in the overwhelm, a thin thread of grace revealed itself. A reminder that healing isn’t linear—and that the foundations that flood often point us back to what’s asking to be rebuilt.