These past few years have worn us all a little thin. Whether you're holding things together for your family, your clients, or your own health - there's a heaviness that many people can’t quite shake.

I hear it in sessions. I feel it in conversations. And I’ve brushed up against it myself: a quieter kind of burnout. Not the dramatic collapse kind, but the creeping kind, where your energy is flat, your resilience is worn down, and your usual ways of coping don’t feel like enough.

It surprises me how often people feel they have no or little cause for happiness and joy – both now and from their past.

I’ve spoken to many people who feel like they’ve achieved everything they wanted in life— a partner, a family, a good job, financial security— but still feel empty inside. The expected feelings of satisfaction and joy never came.