When Your Body Finally Feels Safe Enough to Rest
I recently came across a quote that suggested after spending years living in survival mode, the body often craves an incredible amount of rest once life begins to settle down. It went on to say that this doesn't necessarily mean you're lazy or unmotivated. Instead, your body may simply be trying to catch up on the calm it hasn't experienced in years. Whether that's rooted in psychology or simply someone's personal observation, I honestly don't know. I'm not a mental health professional, and I would never pretend to be. What I do know is that those words stopped me in my tracks because they described something I had been feeling for quite some time but hadn't been able to put into words. They gave a name to an exhaustion that didn't seem to make sense on the surface, and suddenly I found myself looking back over the last few years with a completely different perspective. When people think about difficult seasons in life, they often imagine the obvious...
