Your attention is currency - by Robin Collins
As always, I write these like letters I wish someone had handed me when I needed them most. If it resonates, I hope you let it root. Your energy matters. Your attention is sacred!♡ Share I recently went through a season where I felt perpetually burnt out. Not because I was juggling a million things (even though I was). Not because I didn’t sleep enough (yeah, that too though). It was deeper than that. It was the kind of tired that crept in quietly — made even the smallest things feel heavy. Like I was spending all my energy just trying to keep up. And with what? With who? At some point, I realized I wasn’t burnt out from doing “too much". It was how I was pouring myself into spaces I’d outgrown. Thinking thoughts I didn’t even believe in. Living by standards that looked good online but never actually felt good in my body. I wasn’t just tired. I was energetically broke. Emotionally maxed out. Spiritually behind on bills I didn’t even realize I was still trying to pay. I kept checking in
As always, I write these like letters I wish someone had handed me when I needed them most. If it resonates, I hope you let it root. Your energy matters. Your attention is sacred!♡ Share I recently went through a season where I felt perpetually burnt out. Not because I was juggling a million things (even though I was). Not because I didn’t sleep enough (yeah, that too though). It was deeper than that. It was the kind of tired that crept in quietly — made even the smallest things feel heavy. Like I was spending all my energy just trying to keep up. And with what? With who? At some point, I…
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