let’s talk about shifting fatigue.
trust me, i get it. for a lot of people (2020 shifttok survivors), it’s been years. and after waiting for that long, you get sick of hearing people say it’s “as easy as breathing,” “you’ll shift when it’s right,” or “i shifted once i stopped caring.”
and it’s so easy for giving up to look more appealing than continuing your journey. it’s all too effortless to say “fuck this, it’s been too damn long, maybe this just isn’t for me.” i used to often find myself struggling to find a reason to keep going, keep attempting, in the face of what felt like endless failure.
i'll start by saying that shifting fatigue is so real and so normal. you're not wrong for feeling this way. you're not lazy or undeserving of shifting. when you want something so badly for so long, and you feel like you're so close only to be denied again, it is genuinely exhausting. why wouldn't you become bitter? why wouldn't you get tired of forcing yourself to stay hopeful? you're not wrong for that.
over time, shifting can stop feeling fun and just feel like a chore. you don't think about how excited you are for your dr throughout the day anymore, you just anticipate another failure.
it's no wonder that becomes exhausting. you're not supposed to bully yourself into shifting or brute force your way there. stop pretending to be motivated if you're not. that's why i stopped posting on this blog for a long time, i just didn't have it in me. i was tired and i admit that. but that doesn't mean i ever gave up, and neither should you. resting is not the same as quitting.
reconnect with the part of shifting that actually brought you joy in the first place. stop worrying about methods, symptoms, the 3d, if you're doing not enough or too much or everything or next to nothing. think about your actual desire.
where are you most excited to go? what's the first thing you want to do? who's the first person you're going to hug? what are you gonna eat? what's your day-to-day life like? where do you go to school? who's your best friend you can't wait to gossip to? who's your worst enemy you can't wait to beef with? remind yourself why you want this.
and if you can't bring yourself to do any of this because you're that burnt out, let me remind you that that still doesn't mean you won't shift. your emotional state is not a blockage. you do not need to be your most faithful sunshine and rainbows self in order to shift. you don't need to raise your vibrations or do shadow work or become a monk with perfectly balanced inner peace. i'm not denying that those things can help, but you can still be tired and over it and decide "i'm in my dr", and end up there.
sometimes the healthiest thing you can do for your shifting journey is to take a step back from it. stop digging up the roots to check if they've grown, let the seed stay in the soil. and above all, don't be ashamed to admit that sometimes you're just over it and that's okay.
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