Short spoken piece by Dr. Tabatha Barber reflecting on reasons people (especially women) feel overwhelmingly tired—distinguishing physical exhaustion, emotional overwhelm, and spiritual depletion—and highlighting the difficulty of personal growth within rigid partnerships where change disrupts others. The speaker frames tiredness as a cue that may signal different needs and interpersonal consequences.
I think that's a good question for everybody to ask themselves when they're like, I just want to go crawl in bed and bedrock for a week. Like, is that actually a physical problem? Is it an emotional situation that you don't know how to deal with, or it's overwhelming, or you're just, like, over, like, beating the dead horse of having this conversation again and again and again? Or is it your spirit? Your spirit is tired because it's being ignored and it wants something and. And you just. You know, sometimes we can't connect the dots and make it happen. We're like. We have this nudge, this feeling inside of wanting something different. And our reality is like, no, this is what you're supposed to be doing. And that can be a really hard crossroads, especially if you have a spouse or partner who is. Is very rigid in their beliefs and their ideas, or they like life a certain way. And if we start growing and changing, it disrupts the flow of other people's lives. And sometimes that makes them a little uncomfortable, too. And so those are all kind of things that I hear when women tell me they're tired.
