Why Your Mind Is Tired Mental Exhaustion Overthinking and Rest for Your Soul

Rest your mind, release the weight, and trust God to renew your spirit. Peace grows when you stop carrying every battle alone and choose rest

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What's up, family? Welcome to another episode of the I Can't Help Them podcast. I'm your boy. I'm your host, Rodney Footman. Listen, we're back with another one. And this one is gonna be called Your Mind Is Tired. Your mind is tired, G. Your mind is tired. And I'm gonna be looking over here at my notes. So if y'all see me, I'm listening, I'm looking at notes too as I'm doing this transition. Because some of y'all aren't lazy. Some of y'all aren't lazy. You aren't mentally exhausted. You're emotionally overloaded. You're spiritually drained. You're constantly thinking. You're constantly carrying. You're constantly fighting battles internally. Listen, and eventually your mind gets tired. You don't think so? Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it. Mental exhaustion is real. A lot of people look okay physically, but mentally, they're drained. They're drained. They're overthinking everything. Now listen, I am one of them people. Listen, I'm asking the Lord to deliver me because I am an overthinker. Listen, I have 10 scenarios in my head and ain't none of happen. But I'm playing out everything of how everything could go, or how everything could go good, how everything could go bad, how everything could. That's me. Listen, if you're with me, listen, this this episode for you, this is as well as for me. Because listen, when I tell you your boy, overthink, for no reason. I'd be like, okay, if this happened, this, I gotta do this. If this happened, I gotta do that. If this happened, I gotta do that. If that happened, I gotta do that. If that happened, I gotta do that. Yeah, I can't be doing that because I am my mind is getting tired from me overthinking. You know what I'm saying? Listen, not even if you're an overthinker, listen, sometimes you're carrying everybody's situations. You don't need to be carrying everybody's situation, you don't need me to be carrying your own. Because the Bible says, Cast your cares upon me for I care for you. So if you're carrying everybody else's situation and carrying your own situation, like that ain't we ain't what we on here for now. Like, come on, people, let's go, let's go, let's go. We're not on here for that. Trying to survive emotionally. Listen, you're trying to survive emotionally, you're trying to stay strong spiritually. Listen, they do that. They do that. You try to act like it make it seem like you got everything all together when you don't. You don't. But it is okay. It's okay. Listen, people can't always see mental exhaustion. It's not nothing that can be seen. Some people master functioning while falling apart internally. How many of us know somebody or even us? We done been in a place where we are functioning, but mentally, we we probably ain't even in the place. We just doing it because we know to do it, we know how to do it. And I've been there. I'm with you, G. I've been there. I've been there where I go places and I'm just functioning, but mentally, I'm not even there. Mentally, I'm drained. Mentally, I'm tired. Mentally, I don't even really want to be there, but I gotta be there out of obligation, out of this, out of that, out of this. That's that's me. I'm just letting y'all know. Jesus acknowledged exhaustion. Even spiritual people get tired. Listen, spiritual people get them to most people, they get tired because they always carrying something. And then you know what I'm saying, like people always leaning on them. People always lean on spiritual people. Please don't be no prophet. Because if you're a prophet, then you definitely know what I'm talking about when it comes to this. Because everybody calling you wanting the word. Everybody calling you wanting prophetic insight. Everybody calling you wanting prophetic direction. Listen, not to say that it ain't good, because I believe everybody should have two, three prophets in their life to make sure that they're hearing from the Lord and that they hear correctly. That's just what I believe. That's what I've been taught. Get you some prophetic people around you, get you some prophetic friends around you, so you know you won't go the wrong way. But at the same time, you gotta understand prophetic people carry a lot that they should not be carrying. And please don't dump on no prophetic person because if you dump on them, they carrying all that, and they gotta pray all that off. Is it's is and that's just with anybody. That ain't even prophetic person. You let one of your friends call you and they dump on you all their issues and all their problems. Listen, you're gonna be feeling some of that when they leave. Or when you get off the phone, you're gonna be like, What's wrong with me? Nah, you just done allowed them to dump on you, and you shouldn't allow them to dump on you. Listen, some of you are mentally betired because you never put anything down. Put stuff down, put it down. It ain't yours. Put it down, okay? Listen, you carrying pressure, you carrying expectations, you're carrying fear, you carrying responsibilities, you carry trauma, you carry disappointment, and you can't pin your people. Sorry, but everybody leans on you. But who do you lean on? Who you leaning on? Who, side? Are you leaning on? Leaning on the Lord's side. Listen, who you do who do you lean on? I just wanted to know. Because a lot of people that's carrying everything, they ain't leaning on nobody because everybody leaning on them because everybody sees them as the strong one. Just being honest, let's let's be real. Strong people get tied too. You heard that? Strong people get tied too. And constantly carrying emotional weight without releasing will eventually exhaust your mind. It's gonna eventually exhaust your mind, G. I don't know what you're gonna have to do, I don't know what you're gonna have to say, but it's gonna eventually exhaust your mind. I'm just I'm just letting you know, I'm just being real, I'm just being honest. The more you carry it, the more you don't release it, the more you're gonna have mental exhaustion. Listen, your mind never stops. Your mind never stops. Some people don't even know how to mentally rest or even know what it feels like to mentally rest. Your mind is always running, always running, always running. You always replaying uh conversations, always worrying about the future, always overanalyzing situations, thinking about what could go wrong. I told you, overthinking. I'm over always overanalyzing situations. That listen, I'm gonna be honest, I do. Listen, this is gonna be my deliverance section, too. You know, you hear me? Yeah, feel me, because he had to hit me first before I can talk to y'all. And God dealing with me when it comes to uh over overthinking, because listen, it's a thing. People don't think it's a thing, but overthinking is really a thing. Listen, and social media, social media makes it worse. Because listen, your brain never gets silent, there's always noise, notifications, opinions, bad news, and comparison. And comparison. Your body may be resting, but your mind is still fighting. Ooh, body may be resting, but your mind. Your mind, your mind, your mind, your mind is still fighting. Woo! That's tough from right now. Because you you know how you be sleeping? You might be sleeping, but your mind's still going. And then you even wake up. Have you ever, you know what I'm saying, went to sleep and woke up tired? Because your mind just your your mind just been resting and you ain't got no mental rest. You just been you wake up like super tired. Like that's that's what that means for your body to be resting, but your mind is not resting. Listen, you wake up exhausted. I've been there. I know. I know, I know what I'm talking about. Listen, overthinking is draining you. Overthinking, draining, draining me too. Listen, overthinking is exhausting. It is really exhausting because you create scenarios in your head that haven't even happened yet. I'm trying to tell y'all, listen. When I tell you I create scenarios that haven't happened yet, I create. I do. I do. Because I y'all know I love to be transparent with y'all, so I'm being transparent with y'all. I create scenarios in my head that are stuff that haven't even happened yet. Stuff that probably ain't even gonna happen yet. But I'm working, I'm working every day. I'm striving every day. You hear me? Every day I am working. You play you replay moments repeatedly. Listen, you try to predict outcomes. I try to predict outcomes. Your mentally fight arrives before they arrive.

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Now that's a good one. You mentally fight battles before they arrive. You fight and ain't even nothing there. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah. You're fighting and ain't nothing there. You're fighting mentally and ain't nothing there. You're fighting mentally and ain't nothing there. You're fighting mentally and ain't nothing there. I'm just I'm just letting you know. Not every thought deserves agreement. And not every thought deserves your energy. Listen, not every thought deserves your agreement, but not every thought deserves your energy. I let that sit for a moment because not every thought. Listen, rest is spiritual too. A lot of people don't talk about this. But rest is spiritual. This is important. Rest is not laziness, rest is necessary. Some of you feel guilty slowing down, but even God rested. Did you not hear me Genesis 2 and 2 on the seventh day? God rested. He rested. So if you rested, why you can't rest? Now, if you old school, if you grew up with old school grandmother and all that type of stuff, listen, I'm telling you right now, on Sunday, we did nothing on Sunday. You didn't cook, you didn't clean, you didn't wash clothes, you ain't do nothing on Sunday. You barely watch TV. You you might have got to watch one show. Other than that, listen, and if you were gonna eat a cooked meal, that means your grandmother done cooked the day before. All she got to do is warm up the food. If she didn't do that, you knew you was going out to eat. Those were exciting times for me. Not gonna lie, because I used to love to go out to eat. I would, what? This is especially when Ryan's was listen, I'm from Edison, South Carolina. Just want to let y'all know. If y'all ain't uh, if you ain't never known nothing about it, if you don't know nothing about it, it's okay. But I'm from Edison, South Carolina. And they used to have a restaurant called Ryan's and a restaurant called Quincy's. Listen, baby, when I tell you, if I knew we was going to Ryan's and I knew we was going or going to Quincy's, that was a good Sunday. When I ain't seen my when I seen my grandma not cooking on Saturday night, oh we was going to Ryan's and we was going to Quincy's. And one thing about Ryan's and Quincy's, I think Quincy's had better, the better roles. Oh my God. Rose, I want to tell you something. And we had Shonies. I think Emerson had Shoney's too. But Shoneys for breakfast. I'm sorry, I'm getting hungry on this podcast. But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, I was talking about rest. Rest. If you constantly pour out without replenishing, you will eventually burn out. I'm sorry, yeah. I got flashback with them rolls, though. But yeah, you will eventually burn out. Your mind needs peace, quiet, prayer, boundaries, and rest. That's what your mind needs. Listen, give your mind to God. Give your mind. Give your mind. Let me say it again. Give your mind to God. Give your mind to God. Give your mind to God. You don't have to carry everything along. Philippians 4 says, do not be anxious about anything. You ain't got to be anxious about nothing. You ain't got because God cares about your mental condition. God cares about your mental condition. If you didn't think so, God cares about your mental condition. I want to let you know. God cares about your mental decision. Your mental uh, I'm sorry, condition. I'm saying decision. I can't even talk today. Decision. He cares everything about you. God wants you to be healthy. God wants you to be right. God don't want you overthinking. God don't want your mind exhausted. God don't want your mind tired. Because then, if that's a tire, then he can't pour into you how he needs to pour to you because you're mentally exhausted. And you probably won't even be able to handle what he wants to pour into you so you can keep it. So listen, give your mind to God. Prayer is not just spiritual language, it's emotional release. Prayer is emotional release. Listen, some of you need to stop pretending you're okay and finally be honest with God about your tired and where you really are in life. Where you really are in life. Because a lot of times you just gotta be honest. You gotta be truthful with your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Just just be honest, G. That's all you gotta do. Be honest. Be honest. Be honest. Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Be honest. But listen, you just gotta be honest about who you are, where you are, where you how you feeling. I'm tired. Listen, let me say this clearly. Your mind is tired because you've been fighting internal battles silently. You don't have to stay trapped in exhaustion. You ain't gotta stay trapped in exhaustion. Listen, rest, heal, disconnect when necessary, and protect your peace. And stop carrying things God never asked you to handle alone. Ain't nothing you supposed to be doing alone. God will do it all for you. 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