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Emotional Exhaustion

2/21/2020

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Psalm 29:11 – The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will bless His people with peace.
There are days when it feels likes the sun won’t rise. We know that it will, but from all of the turmoil we’ve been faced with recently, we experience emotional exhaustion and it’s difficult to get past it.
 
They say things come in threes but sometimes we’re bombarded day-after-day. So, the dreary days of the heart press us toward a place we don’t want to be.
 
Some winding roads of the soul keep us circling the drain. We try to reach out for the faucet to pull ourselves out, buy our hands are slippery and we keep falling.
 
This is what emotional exhaustion looks like:
 
  • Anger throws you into a frenzy of feelings that lash out at everyone we meet and ourselves for feeling the anger.
  • Fear chains our hands and feet so that we can’t break the cycle.
  • Confusion makes it difficult to decide which road to go down.
  • Depression drains our hope and leaves us with nothing to fight our other battles.
  • Stress keeps us from finding peaceful moments in your day.
  • Exhaustion can lead to burnout.
 
But there is hope:
 
  1. Joy lifts us up and reminds us of the good things in our lives.
  2. Love causes us to believe in other people and then shows it with our actions.
  3. Peace helps release us to make better decisions because it gives us the confidence we need.
  4. Happiness takes hold of our hand and lifts us up out of the darkest hole.
  5. Being relaxed energizes us to greet a new day.
  6. Getting extra sleep when we can help us stay free of burnout. Even short naps or a quiet time can rejuvenate us.
 
So how do we get from the negative exhaustion and into the light once more? Let’s look at a few more ways to end emotional exhaustion. Healthline.com, in their article, “Emotional Exhaustion: What it is and how to Treat It,” makes some valid points. The article first gives a description of what emotional exhaustion looks like such as accumulated stress or feeling trapped. The article also gives us symptoms of it such as lack of motivation and feelings of hopelessness, what causes emotional exhaustion such as financial stress and poverty, and how to treat emotional exhaustion such as eliminating the stressor, eating healthy, exercise, getting enough sleep, and practicing mindfulness where you focus on what’s happening in the moment such as deep breathing and paying attention to your surroundings.
 
Emotional exhaustion can be treated, and the gloom lifted off our horizon. There’s other strength we can find in the Bible verse above. God is the one who can give us the strength we need. He will bless us with his peace.
 
So the next time you find emotional exhaustion playing havoc with your life and stealing much needed peace, read the suggestions above and try a new one until you find your, “to go to,” step to find rest and peace once more.
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    Karen Dalske is a freelance writer, public speaker, is active in her church and writes her blogs out of her own experiences of pain, illness and loss.

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