It’s Not Too Much — You’re Just Carrying It Alone
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There’s a kind of tiredness that sleep doesn’t fix.
You’re functioning, showing up, doing what needs to be done… but something feels heavy underneath it all.
That quiet overload we don’t always name.
What’s interesting is that emotionally, the body doesn’t just respond to what we’re doing—it responds to what we feel we’re carrying alone. Studies show that perceived isolation increases stress far more than actual workload.
And in Torah, we’re reminded: “השלך על ה׳ יהבך והוא יכלכלך”
Not that everything disappears— but that you don’t have to hold it by yourself.
So this is what we do:
We pause for a moment and say—“I’m allowed to share this weight.”
Even that softens something.
Orit Ester Riter