The Exhaustion of Trying to Fix What Just Wants to Be Felt

There’s a kind of tiredness that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from trying too hard to be somewhere else—emotionally, spiritually, energetically.

Many of us, especially on a healing or awakening path, feel this exhaustion deeply. Not because we’re lazy or broken, but because we’ve been spending so much of our energy trying to fix what simply wants to be felt.

Fear shows up, tightness shows up, financial worry, hopelessness. The temptation is to figure it out, solve it, think our way out of it. But this habit of turning everything into a “problem” that needs a “solution” can become its own form of resistance—and that resistance is what drains us.

There’s a softer way.

Instead of trying to rearrange the waves, we can let the ocean move through us.

Instead of trying to resolve our fear, we can gently acknowledge that it makes sense. That it’s been hard. That our nervous system has been carrying a lot for a long time. That the fear has its reasons and it’s okay to feel them.

Letting the fear be there, without turning it into a project or something that needs to change—that’s not giving up. That’s not passivity. That’s deep trust. That’s presence.

And from that place of presence, the system begins to unwind on its own.

You don’t need to fix yourself. You don’t need to arrive anywhere else. You’re already in the exact place where healing happens: here, now, with what’s true.