Every single time, as I begin to name the reality of the cascade, weariness, low reserves, and all the signs that go with it, my hosts and their guests start nodding in agreement. It’s called Resilient Restoring Your Weary Soul in These Turbulent Times. I’ve been doing loads of interviews on major podcasts because I released a book in June on all this-and how to recover. Getting out of commitments feels like relief right now. We still care about things, we just don't have the energy to care about things enough to see them through. It’s not necessarily apathy creep in a pure sense.
Jamie loves to make nutritious meals for her family, but she admitted they are getting takeout way more often these days. Allen on our team used to love going to the gym it was life-giving. We start to let go of things like the gym, saying yes to a BBQ, even making dinner. (Right?) So we make it through another day, another week, but when we get home we don’t have the energy to rally for anything else. Most of us have way less than 100 percent to give these days. We are now experiencing the cascade effects of exhaustion, mental fragmentation, irritability, and something I want to call “apathy creep”-though I need to explain what I mean. The immediate blow, then the aftereffects. Later (sometimes much later), you realize your neck is killing you or your back just isn’t right.
It’s like a car accident-there’s the crash, then the adrenaline response to handle the immediate aftermath. We are now in the “cascade effect” of the past two years. I’ve been polling a number of mature people lately-inside the Wild at Heart world and beyond––and the nearly unanimous response is that folks are running on very low reserves. Our podcast the weeks of June 20th and 27th offers a conversation with several members of our team about how everybody’s doing these days, especially with regard to our reserve tanks.
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