Ever hit that point where your brain leaves the chat but your body keeps pretending it’s fine?

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I had one of those moments this week where I was just standing in the kitchen staring at a packet of pasta like it was some sort of advanced maths equation, and the ridiculous part is nothing was actually wrong, it was just that my brain had tapped out long before my body realised it was supposed to stop too.

People talk about burnout like it’s this big dramatic collapse but honestly, most of the time it’s the tiny shutdowns that give us away, the micro-freezes, the blank stares at random objects, the sudden “nope, I can’t” that slips out before you even know you’re saying it, and if you’re a mum of ND kids AND running a business, you’ll know exactly what I mean because capacity isn’t a weekly conversation or even a daily one, it’s every hour, every decision, every moment where you’re trying to hold everything together while your nervous system is whispering “absolutely not.”

And I’m curious, genuinely, because we rarely talk about the early signs, the subtle ones before it becomes “too much,” before you hit the point where you’re crying over something stupid like the way the dishwasher was stacked or the fact someone breathed too loudly.

What does burnout look like in you before it hits the red zone? The real stuff. The messy stuff. The micro-signals your body gives you that say: “I’m done but I’m still pretending I’m not.”

I reckon whatever you share, someone is going to read it and think, “God, same.”

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