The Real Reason You’re Exhausted All the Time
After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings
Dear Media and Big Little Feelings
4.5 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
If you feel like you’re drowning, failing, and behind on everything in life right now, this episode is going to change everything for you. Women are carrying an impossible amount right now. The schedules. The school emails. The emotional labor. The meals. The invisible planning. The pressure to be fully present with your kids while somehow also functioning like a high-performing CEO with glowing skin and an organized pantry. And because you can’t keep up with all of it? You’ve started believing the problem is you. This episode will change that.
In this episode, you’ll finally understand:
- What chronic mental load is actually doing to your brain and nervous system
- Why so many women feel like they’re failing even when they’re doing an unbelievable amount
- How perfectionism gets wired into girls from childhood
- Why comparison hits women so hard psychologically
- And the mindset shift that has the power to completely free you from the constant feeling that you are behind, drowning, exhausted, and failing at everything all the time
Do not miss this episode. You're about to look at your life in a whole new way, and the load is about to get so much lighter.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:05.1 | Welcome to another episode of After Bedtime. |
| 0:09.0 | Friends, I want to talk about how many of us feel like we are failing. |
| 0:17.1 | And I'm starting to wonder if the reason that we all feel like we're failing, is it because modern life has become impossible, especially modern parenting? |
| 0:31.5 | Were we really supposed to carry this much? |
| 0:36.2 | The schedules, the emails, the meals, the emotional labor, the |
| 0:39.2 | friendships, the school forms, the remembering, the planning, the working, the parenting, the constant |
| 0:45.2 | pressure to somehow be deeply present with our children while also functioning like a high-performing |
| 0:52.8 | CEO with a skincare routine and a clean kitchen. |
| 0:55.2 | I'm just saying because right now, women are drowning. We're drowning. And be honest, this is just my |
| 1:05.8 | feeling. But I do feel like most of us feel this way. And yet we're presenting as if we are okay. Our whole |
| 1:14.8 | goal isn't actually being okay, but our goal is to present as if we're totally fine, as if we |
| 1:23.2 | totally love everything and we have a handle on everything. Today's episode is about the feeling |
| 1:29.4 | that so many women are carrying. The feeling that we are behind at life. We're behind emotionally, |
| 1:38.7 | behind professionally, behind physically, behind as a mom, behind as a partner, behind as an employee, behind as a human. |
| 1:47.5 | What if the life that you are living right now is the exact life that somebody else would look at and say, |
| 1:55.9 | wow, she has it all together. She can do this. I can't do that. |
| 2:01.4 | We're going to really unpack how absolutely no one has everything. |
| 2:07.2 | And how because of the pressure we put on ourselves, |
| 2:11.3 | we feel like we're behind even when we're killing it at life. |
| 2:17.1 | Friends, buckle in. This might be my favorite episode I've ever done. |
| 2:21.7 | Welcome to After Bedtime, where the house is finally quiet, but the real noise begins. The thoughts, |
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