Most explanations of the nervous system begin with diagrams. Latin terms. A clinical map of something that is, at its heart, one of the most intimate and responsive systems in the natural world. We are given the anatomy without the poetry. The mechanism without the meaning. And we walk away understanding, perhaps, what the nervous […]
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There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from the burnout itself but from the fighting of it. The jaw held tight against the tiredness. The calendar filled deliberately to prevent the silence from arriving. The relentless internal negotiation — if I can just get through this week, if I can just make
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Most of us have been using the words interchangeably for so long that the distinction has become invisible. Stressed. Burnt out. Overwhelmed. Exhausted. We reach for these words to describe the same general territory of too much. And because the words have blurred together in our everyday language, something important has been lost — the
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I did not go to the garden because I had a plan. I went because I had run out of them. After years of working in post-secondary education—supporting students, navigating the particular exhaustion of caring deeply, and believing that my hard work and dedication would be met with the same care and loyalty in return
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I knew something was wrong. I just did not know it was me. Or rather — I knew it was not me, not really, not in the fundamental way the exhaustion kept suggesting. I was a yoga teacher and therapist. I understood the nervous system. I knew exactly what chronic stress does to the body
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If you have landed here, something brought you. Maybe you typed something into a search bar at an hour when you should have been sleeping. Maybe you have been quietly googling your symptoms for weeks, half-hoping someone would finally name what is happening. Maybe a friend sent you a link and said this reminded me
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