There is a particular variety of exhaustion that sleep does not remedy. You are functioning. You are showing up. And yet you feel quietly eroded — navigating your days with diminished clarity, shrinking margins, and a subdued luminosity that is not quite you. If that resonates, this episode was made for you. Here, Laurie illuminates what is likely draining your mind and body at midlife, and it is not a lack of discipline or motivation. It is accumulated mental load: the combined attrition of ...