The Kind of Tired That Sleep Doesn't Fix

There’s a kind of tiredness that sleep doesn’t fix.

I know that place. 

Everything being held together. Work, family, life. The kind of full where nothing could really be set down, even for a moment. And underneath it all was the quiet pressure of trying to stay ahead of things that never really seemed to settle. Even when the house was quiet, it wasn’t actually quiet.

My mind didn’t stop. It kept turning things over, trying to make sense of things that never seemed to fully resolve. Conversations, decisions, situations that didn’t have clear endings. It all stayed open, looping, circling, asking for something I didn’t yet have the capacity to give.

Sleep didn’t touch that kind of tired. It sat deeper than that.

At the time, I thought the answer was to figure things out. If I could just understand it all, make the right decisions, get ahead of what might go wrong, then maybe I’d finally feel settled.

But that never actually happened. Because not everything settles through thinking.

That took me a long time to understand, and even longer to trust.

What I began to notice, slowly, almost reluctantly, was that something else happened when I stepped out of the constant effort to figure things out. Not by solving anything, just by being somewhere different. A quieter kind of space.

Nothing was being analyzed. Nothing needed to be explained. There was no pressure to come to conclusions. And in that kind of space, something shifted. Not dramatically, but enough.

The mind softened. The constant turning eased. And for the first time in a long time, there was a sense of being more settled.

It wasn’t that everything was resolved. It was that not everything needed to be. And for the first time in a long time… I wasn’t trying to make it be.

     - Sherri

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That understanding is part of what shaped the Listening Circle. Not as a place to fix anything, or to figure things out, but as a small, intentional gathering where people can come as they are, without needing to organize their thoughts first.

Where speaking is optional.
Where listening matters.
Where things are allowed to land in their own time.

When people arrive with their minds full of noise, and leave feeling more settled than they expected, that feels right.

If that resonates with you, you’re welcome to join us.

Here's where you can view details & reserve your seat in the next circle.