The Spiritual Reasons for Fatigue

For years I struggled with chronic fatigue, exhaustion and what I thought was highly functioning depression in my adult years. 

My journey with sleep issues and tiredness started in my teens. For the last few years of high school, I would stay off school to sleep all day and stay awake all night watching TV. I even ended up going to a “sleep clinic” to help understand this pattern that seems to come out of nowhere, but in reality it was my  way of avoiding life used as a coping mechanism to past unexpressed trauma I had experienced in childhood. My sleeping issues were much more than a physical imbalance, they were in fact the manifestation of imbalance in my soul. 

Fatigue by nature can mean you experience extreme tiredness, low energy, or it can even go into the realms of insomnia and not being able to sleep when we want or need to. 

Now whilst fatigue can indicate a physical imbalance in the body and should always be explored with a health professional (an integrated doctor if you can), as you could be low in things like B12 or iron, you may not be eating the right nutrient dense foods, exercising or getting enough sunlight. 

But what is the spiritual nature of fatigue?

1. Spiritual Growth 

This may surprise you but you may experience a period of fatigue if you have just gone through a big positive life change, healing or experience. If you have stepped out of our comfort zone and stepped into the unknown, or done something new for the first time. That may be launching something new within your business or changes and habits that have been made within relationships. 

It can take time for your body to catch up and adjust to your new reality as changes have also been made within your cellular system every time you allow your soul to expand.  This is especially true if you have shifted out old limiting programs, emotions,  conditioning or behaviours that you have held onto for a long time (even lifetimes.) 

Tiredness and fatigue are also very common symptoms that you are going through a spiritual awakening.

2. Trauma 

A perhaps more obvious reason for fatigue is if you have experienced a trauma or a major loss of some sort. This could be recent or you may have been triggered, unconsciously bringing up and replaying an old trauma within your nervous system (which believe me feels just as real as the original incident.)

Feelings like grief that may arise which actually suppresses your immune system leaving you feeling exhausted and depleted. 

3. Suppressing your emotions 

This can show up in the form of depression. Feeling cut off from connection, joy, happiness and love. 

Your fatigue may be created by a deep emotional blockage or negative or traumatic experience that you have not been able to express safely which can lead to feelings of depression. Often it’s caused by not being able to process, feel or express your feelings out of fear. Which may have been a maladaptive belief or way to cope, especially if it was a trauma during your childhood. 

You may also have trouble sleeping when you want to ie at night because that’s the time most often when you have no distractions to keep your suppressed emotions from resurfacing. It takes a hell of a lot of energy to suppress your emotions rather than let them out, so no wonder you are exhausted. 

When you suppress the more challenging emotions that can arise from past hurts like fear, shame, anger, or grief; you also cut yourself off from feelings of joy, happiness or excitement. 

If you feel this is you, then this is definitely a time to slow down, rest and ask for help from a trained professional. 

4. Stress 

Many times when you feel fatigued despite getting your 8 hours a night of quality sleep, it could be due to prolonged stress and a dysregulated nervous system. 

If you have grown up in a chaotic or less nurturing environment, you could be living from a flight, fright or freeze state. 

Often as you move into adulthood, you continue to accept or experience “stressful” experiences because they feel normal to you. 

If you are easily triggered, startled or always on high alert which then makes a deep sleep impossible, then your nervous system is most likely dysregulated. 

There are many ways to help reset your nervous system and manage stress and anxiety. For most people, these can be symptoms of trauma so finding supportive practices and therapies to help release the emotional, mental and energetic residues that get stored in the system as blockages from trauma will be extremely helpful. 

Yoga, breath-work, meditation, regression, energy healing, hypnosis, inner child work, and soul healing modalities can be a great support. 

5. Poor energetic boundaries 

Now this can show up in many ways:

If you are empathic by nature, a people pleaser, always helping people and taking care of other people's needs before your own, then this could be a reason for your fatigue. 

If you have low self esteem and you believe that you're worth or ability to be loved is based on prioritising others before yourself then this could be why you're tired all the time. 

If you are still hanging out with negative, gossipy people that like to blame or shame others then this could be why you feel exhausted. 

Or if you are engaging in sexual experiences or relationships with misaligned individuals who you don’t know well, are toxic, violent, drink or take drugs often and lead a less than conscious lifestyle then this could absolutely be why you feel disconnected, disillusioned and depleted. 

We are all exchanging energy as information with each other and if you aren’t looking after yourself with love, have strong energetic boundaries and discernment then you may  continue to absorb everyone else’s emotional, mental, and spiritual baggage… and that is EXHAUSTING!

Without knowing how to properly cleanse your mind, body and spirit and learn essential techniques in energy management it’s a slippery slope to never being able to fill your energetic cup to the top. 

Everything that you allow to impact your energy, that is out of balance, that is unloving to yourself can show up as signs of fatigue. Your energy is the fuel  that you need in order to create the life of your dreams. Thankfully you have the power to fill your own energetic cup. 

If you are looking for support, guidance, healing and inspiration to regain your vital life force energy, love yourself and clear any blocks stopping you from true happiness, peace and joy then I’d love to support you and your soul on its journey of growth and expansion. Feel free to check out the range of services that I provide here on my website or if you feel you are going through a spiritual awakening and looking for support, teaching and guidance on how to navigate it will more ease, and meet likeminded spiritual seekers then you can join my membership.