Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader,

and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance.

This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply spiritual truth.

It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, or praying about what's next.

Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, I am praying for you,

and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go.

All right, listen, we're distracted, overwhelmed, and honestly, we're all a little bit wired.

We've got brain fog. We're experiencing anxiety and the mental list of what we all

need to do or get done just keeps rolling. If your brain feels fried, if you're lacking mental

clarity and peace, you're not in the minority. Sadly, most of us feel this way. All of our brains are overstimulated. The default setting for women

in our current culture is overwhelmed, but it really doesn't have to continue to be our reality.

We don't have to keep consenting to live distracted, confused, and mentally exhausted. So let's talk about it. Today, I've got five tips for you

if your brain is feeling pride. All right, here's the deal, friends. Mental fatigue is not the exception.

It's honestly for most of us, the culturally insistent rule. It is assumed that we will just be okay with being bombarded with information from the moment we open our eyes until we close them at night. And there is a worldwide assumption that you will adhere to a policy of being accessible at all times via your phone. Goodness gracious, I'm going to

rant about this in just a second. There's an implied insistence that we as women will do the

mental gymnastics needed to cope with and coordinate the complicated lives of every single

person we lead and love. Of course, your brain feels fried. It is not your fault. You did not

start this fight. You are not weak. There is not something wrong with you that it's just

overwhelming to be alive in the year of our Lord 2025. But we do want to fight it. We do want to say like, okay, is this going to be

the normal for the rest of our lives? Or are we going to partner with God and see how we can best

take care of our brains? I want to tell you something really interesting. When I wrote tired of being

tired, I knew I wanted to talk about mental fatigue. I knew that it was

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