You'd expect the hardest part of a breakup to be the heartbreak. For a lot of women it's the exhaustion: the kind that sleep doesn't touch, that often arrives months after the worst is over, just when everyone expects you to be fine.
Louise George works with exactly that. She joins Emma and me to talk about post-stress fatigue, why the body keeps paying for a crisis long after it's passed, and what it means to listen to your body rather than the voice telling you to push on through.
Emma describes it perfectly: like a ship in a sci-fi film, shutting down everything except life support. We talk about why that happens, what letting go actually looks like when you're running on empty, and how you start bringing things back online, one system at a time.
Show notes
Louise joins us in the Huddle on 25 November for a members' session on exhaustion in midlife and after a breakup. Send your questions in beforehand and she'll answer them on the call.
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