Why Your Heart Feels Tired Even When You Haven’t Done Much

Some days, the exhaustion doesn’t make sense.

You didn’t run a marathon.
You didn’t solve a crisis.
You didn’t carry the world on your back.

And yet — your chest feels heavy,
your thoughts feel slow,
and even small things feel like too much.

This tiredness is real.

It is the tiredness that comes from:

• holding emotions instead of expressing them
• caring for others without anyone noticing
• keeping it together when no one else can
• being the steady one, the reliable one

The world calls it laziness,
but your body calls it overcapacity.

Your nervous system always knows first.
It whispers through fatigue, fog, and withdrawal.
It asks for gentleness, not more effort.

So if today feels heavy, even without doing much —
let that be enough reason to rest.

You don’t need to earn it.

Sometimes the bravest thing you can do
is listen to the quiet voice that says:

“I need a moment.”

And give it one.