States of Vital Exhaustion

There is, apparently, a name for the bone-muscle-and-soul-eroding lassitude I have felt for the last several years, for reasons too numerous to list, the kind of brokenness that cannot be explained in the same way that it is experienced, the kind of brokenness we think we are approaching, while not realizing that it has already happened, the kind of brokenness that is deeply damaging to every aspect of life, to harmony, to peace, to sanity, to physical and emotional heart health, really to everything that is fundamentally important for a life of wholeness and integrity. According to this article in The Guardian, we can actually hit a wall of fatigue, stress, anxiety, and grief that amounts to complete burnout or, as they have it, a "state of vital exhaustion."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/21/how-burnout-became-a-sinister-and-insidious-epidemic

Here is what that looks like once it comes out of my utterly exhausted heart, soul and brain, and onto a piece of painted material. States of vital exhaustion, in living color: