When we experience overwhelm, we are never exactly sure what tips us over into a place of too much. Is it the lack of rest? Too many demands on our time and energy? Is it waning energy in ourselves that just happens to coincide with busyness? Some combination?

Does it matter why we feel like things are too much? Or just that we simply notice that they are too much? (In an effort to not exacerbate or replicate, of course)

Like anything that is alive, we cycle. Our energies grow, they wane. We feel intensely and then moderate. Over and over. Somewhere inside this there is wisdom, but it can be hard to access perspective when we are feeling depleted. Low energy times signal a need in us to restore ourselves .

I think of how wellness is restored in nature, how every being is interconnected, held in…