What Are You
Carrying?
I didn't create this guide because I wanted to give you another checklist or another list of things you should be doing.
I created it because I've noticed something over the years.
So many of us are carrying far more than we realise.
Not just jobs, responsibilities or busy diaries, but expectations, worries, guilt, pressure and the feeling that we have to keep everything ticking along.
The strange thing is, most of us don't even notice we're carrying it anymore.
It becomes so familiar that it simply feels like life.
That's the idea behind What Are You Carrying?
An invitation to pause for a few minutes and notice some of the things you may have become so used to carrying that you've stopped noticing their weight.
We rarely notice what we've become used to carrying.
Think about carrying a handbag or a rucksack.
At first, you're aware of the weight. After a while, you stop noticing it altogether. Sometimes it's only when you finally put it down that you realise how heavy it had become.
I think life can be like that too.
We get used to being the organised one. The reliable one. The person who remembers everything, keeps everyone going and quietly carries the emotional load that nobody else really sees.
Because it happens gradually, it stops feeling unusual.
It just becomes who we are.
And that's why it can be so difficult to understand why we're feeling exhausted, overwhelmed or disconnected from ourselves. From where we're standing, nothing has really changed.
But when we start looking a little more closely, we often realise we've been carrying far more than we ever gave ourselves credit for.
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This isn't another guide to rush through or another job to tick off your list. Make yourself a cup of tea, find ten quiet minutes if you can and read it slowly. You don't need to find everything that's wrong or work out how to fix it. Just read it with curiosity.
My hope is simply that somewhere along the way, you pause and think, "I've never really thought about it like that before."