Quiet Confidence With Dr Tess Crawley

“Why am I so tired all the time?” This is a question I hear all the time at the moment … and one I often ask myself! You might have seen media articles talking about ‘fatigue’ and ‘languishing’, but what’s it all about? And why can’t we just “pick ourselves up by the bootstraps” and soldier on like we used to?  Well, let’s stop for a minute and think about all the things we’ve been dealing with for the past couple of years … and don’t forget to include the 2019 bushfires. We’ve not had a break since. * Bushfires * National lockdown * Work from home * Remote Learning * Closed borders * Lack of proper holidays * Rolling lockdowns * Vaccine rollout * Delta * Inability to plan * Protests * Interrupted education * Earthquake * Interrupted goals * Uncertainty about the future Think of your coping resources as being like water in a bucket … the impact of even one of the things we’ve had to deal with over the past two years will poke a hole in the bottom of that bucket. Now imagine that before you have the abili