12/09/2026
Are you tired❓️💤💤💤😴
I spend a lot of time with clients/friends and patients who cannot figure out why they are so tired. 😴Here is the answer almost nobody wants to hear.🫣🤫
We are drowning in doing and calling it swimming.🏊♀️🏊♀️🏊♀️
The car has a podcast. The walk has an audiobook. The shower 🚿has a waterproof phone holder now, which means we have officially run out of places in our lives that are allowed to just be wet and quiet.
Cooking dinner requires a show on the counter. Folding laundry requires a show on the phone. We voluntarily eliminated the last three minutes of unscheduled silence in our day, and we did it from a toilet.🧻
Someone invented a toothbrush that connects to an app.🦷🪥 Your teeth have a digital footprint now. We looked at the one activity that required nothing but an arm and some paste and said this needs WiFi.
You listen to a podcast while you exercise while you answer emails while you worry about something from yesterday. That is not multitasking. That is five things being done badly at the same time by a person who will later say I do not know why I am so tired.
Rest now requires equipment. A weighted blanket, a sound machine, a sleep mask, an app that plays rain sounds from a forest you will never visit, and a wind down routine that takes longer than the sleep it is supposed to produce.💤😴
We turned walking into a sport with metrics.🚶♀️ How far, how fast, what zone. You took a walk. The walk was nice. The walk does not need a performance review.
We eat lunch at our desk and call it efficiency. We answer emails 📧at dinner and call it dedication. We scroll 🤳in bed and call it winding down. We have renamed every form of self neglect as something that sounds like ambition.
Someone will read this while doing something else. Eating, walking, waiting in line, lying in bed. You did not even notice, because you are doing two things at once.
Your grandmother sat on a porch and stared at the street and called it evening. We would call that a waste of time. She would call what we are doing a waste of a life.
Your nervous system was never designed for constant input. It reads busyness as danger and stillness as safety, and it has not felt safe in years.
Put something down. Anything. See if you float.🧜♀️🌊
What is the one thing you are putting down? Comment it. Then go do nothing, gloriously, for ten minutes.
Thank you Dr. Laurie Marbas, a brilliant reminder for us all. 👌💙
Many that may know me, already realise the gadgets are off more than they are on, and not even on my person most of the time. Nb NOT because I'm asleep, I may be running or sea dipping 😁🫶💤🏃♀️🧜♀️🌊
