The Body Has Been Screaming

There is a message your body has been trying to get through for longer than you have been willing to receive it. I know because mine sent the same message for years before I learned to open the envelope.

The message is not complicated. It says: I am carrying more than you have admitted. It says: the tiredness you have been managing is not the problem. It is the report on the problem.

You are not weak for having missed it. The skills that make you excellent at what you do are built, in part, on the ability to override discomfort. That ability saved you once. It is costing you now.

For the next few days, I want you to try one thing. Once in the morning, before the phone, sit for three minutes and ask the body what it is carrying today. Not to fix it. Just to hear it. Write down one word that names where the weight lives.

The body has been screaming. This is you, finally, starting to listen.

— Job