Breathe.Gratitude.Love.

Many of us know how it feels to wake up each day to a mountain of responsibilities.  Caring for our families and homes can make it feel as though we have worked a full day before 10 am.  It becomes necessary to find increasingly clever ways to extend our energy.  We exercise our bodies, drink coffee or even operate from sheer determination.

But the responsibilities continue to shift and grow, and our best efforts to keep up eventually fall short.  Fear of failure strengthens our resolve to keep up with everything on our responsibilities list.  We double down on our plans to manage lives that are moving at the speed of a runaway train.  Admitting to  physical and mental exhaustion awakens a misguided inner dialog that pronounces us a failure.    We wonder how other people living similar lives seem to do with ease the things that are an absolute struggle for us.  These feelings ultimately lead to self-directed anger (depression) and overall discontentment with life. 

It seems impossible to allow ourselves to feel drained.  We feel solely responsible for tackling the items on our responsibilities list.  If we don’t keep up, the lives we have built for ourselves will fall to pieces.

There comes a time when doing it all is no longer an option.  Life will send us an intervention that forces us to sit still and feel how energetically empty we are.  This nudge gives us the opportunity to consider a more centralized issue as the culprit of how we feel.  Perhaps we have been operating from one of our extensions or titles instead of from our center.  Maybe we have forgotten our center altogether and need time to focus on who we are without our titles.  

Spending time in the space of “feeling drained”  gives us the opportunity to reconnect with the true source of our energy.  It allows our vulnerability to meet our higher selves and recalibrate to center.  We gain the clarity needed to release the responsibilities that don’t belong to us and make room for those dependent on us to take more ownership of their own lives.

The courage to feel drained is the courage to allow the release of our innate inner power.  We then show up for ourselves in a meaningful way, and we begin the journey to a life of joy and fulfillment.  

Healing Affirmations

I invite you now to breathe in a few affirmations as we explore the space of feeling drained.  We recognize the desire to slow down and listen to our body and spirit, and we make time to honor this request. So now, let’s breathe in these healing affirmations:

• I am enough
• I am worthy of rest and restoration
• I offer myself kindness and compassion
• I detach from overdoing
• I am centered in the truth of who I am

You are seen. You are heard. You are understood.

It is released.

Copyright Madeline A. Cameron March 2025