Life Lately: When You’re Tired in Your Bones But Still Showing Up

Some days, I’m not just tired – I’m tired in my bones.

The kind of tired that doesn’t go away with sleep. The kind that’s wrapped up in mental load and overstimulation and wondering if I’m doing enough, being enough, loving well enough.

Life lately has been…full. Beautiful, for the most part, yes. But also heavy. Loud. Messy.

Three kids. Social work school. Trying to grow GentlyJenn again. Dishes. Diapers. Papers to write. Snacks to cut into very specific shapes or risk a meltdown.

There are moments I look around and think – How am I still standing?

And the answer is: I’m not always. Sometimes I’m slumped on the floor with my head in my hands. Sometimes I’m standing, but barely. Sometimes I’m upright only because of the deep, invisible roots that mothers grow -the kind made of love, grit, grace, and muscle memory.

This Season Feels Like a Lot (Because It Is)

Maybe you’re here too.

Maybe your version of “tired in your bones” looks like long nights with a teething baby. Or the constant push and pull of trying to be everything to everyone. Or the way your brain never, ever quiets—running through logistics, worries, lists, emotions.

And yet – you show up.

Even when you feel like a shell.
Even when you’re running on empty.
Even when you wish someone would just come take care of you for a change.

That’s not weakness. That’s devotion.

Let This Be Your Reminder:

You are allowed to be tired.
You are allowed to need rest, even from the things you love.
You are allowed to ask for help, say no, take shortcuts, or cry over nothing.

Your value is not in how much you produce, how clean your house is, or how patient you are at 5:30pm when the house is wild and everyone is hungry.

Your value is in your presence.
In your love.
In the way you keep showing up.

Not perfectly. Not always gracefully. But honestly.

Here’s What’s Helping Me Lately:

• Keeping the mornings slow, when I can.
• Letting the dishes sit sometimes – because cuddles matter more.
• Going outside with my kids, even just for ten minutes. Fresh air does wonders.
• Letting “good enough” be good enough.
• Crying when I need to. Not explaining it away.
• Whispering to myself: You’re allowed to be a person, too.

If life lately feels like a lot, you’re not alone.
You’re not failing.
You’re just human.

And in this house, in this season, on this little corner of the internet – we honor that.

Rest when you can. Laugh when you can. Let someone else carry something when possible. And if no one’s told you this lately:

You are doing so well.
Even when it doesn’t feel like it.
Especially then.

With love,

Jenn