Are You Tired? Listening to What Your Body Needs

What kind of tired lives in your body right now, and what might it be trying to tell you?

Are you tired? Not just sleepy, but the kind of tired that lingers deep in your body. The kind that doesn’t lift after a good night’s rest or a weekend off.

It’s a quiet heaviness that comes from doing so much for so long. From being dependable, from caring, from holding everything together. Sometimes it’s hard to even name where the exhaustion begins. It just lives under the surface.

For many women, this fatigue arrives around midlife. Hormones begin to shift, sleep gets lighter, and moods move in new ways. What once felt easy starts to take more effort. You might feel foggy, restless, or unmotivated. The body you’ve known for decades is changing, and that can feel disorienting.

These shifts are part of the passage through perimenopause and menopause. They’re natural, but they can be uncomfortable and lonely if we don’t talk about them. The truth is, your body is adjusting to an entirely new rhythm. It’s asking you to pay attention to how you eat, how you rest, how you connect, and how you move through your days.

If you’ve been feeling unlike yourself, you’re not alone. There are 34 recognized symptoms of perimenopause,  from fatigue and brain fog to changes in sleep, mood, and temperature. Learning about these can help you better understand what’s happening within your body and remind you that nothing is wrong, your body is simply transitioning.

You can also explore our overview of the different stages of menopause to see where you might be in your own journey. Awareness helps us meet each stage with more grace, understanding, and care.

When we start listening to what the body needs instead of what the world demands, something changes. The edges soften. Energy begins to return.

So if you’re tired, take that feeling seriously. It might be your body’s way of asking for slower mornings, earlier nights, or gentler expectations. It might be a reminder to pause before saying yes.

Every season brings its own kind of wisdom. Maybe this one is about restoring what’s been given away and remembering that your own well-being is reason enough to rest.

Discover Christine Marie Mason’s Kirkus Award–Winning book, The 9 Lives of Woman a powerful exploration of the cycles, seasons, and stages of a woman’s life.

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