A Birthday Reflection For Anyone Who Has Carried Too Much This Year

Nat Creasy
2 days ago
4 min read

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Today is my birthday.

A December birthday has always been an interesting one. You grow up learning to share your day with Christmas plans, office parties, school concerts, and family logistics. You learn to celebrate quietly. You learn that joy can be gentle and still be full.

As an adult, my December birthday has become a ritual of reflection. A natural pause. A moment to look at the year honestly.

Not as a spreadsheet of achievements, but as a map of the moments I lived through.

What This Year Taught Me

This year brought challenges. Moments of worry. Moments of stretching. Moments when I had to remind myself that I'm human, even when others expect me to be superhuman.

And I've watched the women around me do the same.

So many tired yet capable women holding entire worlds together while quietly wondering when their own needs will be met. Carrying the weight of families, businesses, relationships, responsibilities, and doing it all while smiling through the exhaustion.

If you've had a year like that, I want you to know this:

You are not weak for feeling tired.

You're tired because you gave your heart to everything you touched. You showed up even on the days you had nothing left. You held people. You held responsibilities. You held yourself.

That is the strength of the highest kind.

What Your Body Remembers

Your nervous system remembers every moment you carried more than any one person should.

It remembers the late nights you stayed up worrying. The mornings you dragged yourself out of bed on empty. The times you swallowed your own needs to meet everyone else's, the weight of holding it all together when you were falling apart inside.

It also remembers your endurance. Your strength. Your refusal to give up, even when giving up would have been easier.

And right now, as we stand nine days before Christmas with the pressure building and the lists growing and the expectations mounting, it's asking for gentleness.

A softer pace. A kinder voice in your own head. A moment of recognition for all you've walked through this year.

Because here's what I've learned after 15+ years of holding space for exhausted women: you can't pour from an empty cup, but you also can't refill a cup that's still being drained.

The Gift I'm Giving Myself (And You)

On my birthday, I'm choosing rest. Not as a reward for getting through the year, but as a necessity for getting through the next nine days without collapsing. A space to pause, a space that will ensure I enjoy the festivities when they arrive.

And I'm toasting you, too.

To your courage, your effort, the beauty of your persistence.

And to the truth that rest is now overdue.

Not in January. Not after Christmas is over, and everyone's needs are met, and all the lists are complete.

Now.

Before the final push. Before you give what you don't have. Before your nervous system tips from coping into crisis.

If Not Now, When?

This is the moment, my love. The last real pause before Christmas chaos takes over completely.

In nine days, you'll be in the thick of it. In nine days, you'll be running on adrenaline and obligation. In nine days, it'll be too late to prevent the crash you can already feel coming.

But today? Today you still have a choice.

You can choose support. You can choose not to do this alone. You can choose to give yourself what your nervous system has been begging for all year: someone to help you regulate, rest, and remember what it feels like when your body feels safe again.

#Rebel Moment

Tonight, give yourself one moment of celebration. Not the fireworks kind. The honest kind.

Hand on heart. One slow breath. Whisper to yourself: I made it through this year.

This isn't self-congratulation.

This is self-acknowledgement.

And it's one of the most healing practices you can offer your nervous system.

Say it out loud if you can. Feel the weight of those words. Feel what your body has carried. Feel the truth of your own endurance.

You made it through this year. And you deserve support getting through the next nine days.

If you're reading this and feeling it in your bones, the exhaustion, the weight, the knowledge that you can't do another nine days like this, here's what you need to hear:

I got you! This is your last chance to get support before Christmas arrives.

I'm holding space for a handful of women who know they can't white-knuckle their way through another December. Women who are ready to stop performing and start actually experiencing the season.

I have two beautiful options for you:

→ Single Session: One hour of immediate nervous system support. We'll work together to help your body let go of what it's been holding, regulate the overwhelm, and find your anchor before Christmas hits. All this for just £97

→ Get Through December Package: Three sessions: two before Christmas to support you through the chaos, one in January to rebuild and restore. This is for women who know they need more than a quick fix, they need someone walking alongside them. I got you, and for just £247

If you're done carrying everything alone, DM me 'Ready' right now. I ready and waiting, trust me, I got just what you need, I know this feeling you are holding and I know exactly what you need. Let's get you through December and ensure you truly enjoy it this year.

This is my birthday gift to you: permission to ask for help. And an actual human who understands you and is ready to give you exactly what you need. I see you, beautiful, I see you!

Stay Blessed!

Nat x 🧡

P.S. If you're thinking "I should wait until January" or "I can get through this on my own", or "I don't want to bother anyone", that's your exhaustion talking, not your wisdom. Your body has been begging for support all year. Listen to her. DM me.

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Inside Nat's Notebook - Real Reflections for Real Change

Today is my birthday.

A December birthday has always been an interesting one. You grow up learning to share your day with Christmas plans, office parties, school concerts, and family logistics. You learn to celebrate quietly. You learn that joy can be gentle and still be full.

As an adult, my December birthday has become a ritual of reflection. A natural pause. A moment to look at the year honestly.

Not as a spreadsheet of achievements, but as a map of the moments I lived through.

What This Year Taught Me

This year brought challenges. Moments of worry. Moments of stretching. Moments when I had to remind myself that I'm human, even when others expect me to be superhuman.

And I've watched the women around me do the same.

So many tired yet capable women holding entire worlds together while quietly wondering when their own needs will be met. Carrying the weight of families, businesses, relationships, responsibilities, and doing it all while smiling through the exhaustion.

If you've had a year like that, I want you to know this:

You are not weak for feeling tired.

You're tired because you gave your heart to everything you touched. You showed up even on the days you had nothing left. You held people. You held responsibilities. You held yourself.

That is the strength of the highest kind.

What Your Body Remembers

Your nervous system remembers every moment you carried more than any one person should.

It remembers the late nights you stayed up worrying. The mornings you dragged yourself out of bed on empty. The times you swallowed your own needs to meet everyone else's, the weight of holding it all together when you were falling apart inside.

It also remembers your endurance. Your strength. Your refusal to give up, even when giving up would have been easier.

And right now, as we stand nine days before Christmas with the pressure building and the lists growing and the expectations mounting, it's asking for gentleness.

A softer pace. A kinder voice in your own head. A moment of recognition for all you've walked through this year.

Because here's what I've learned after 15+ years of holding space for exhausted women: you can't pour from an empty cup, but you also can't refill a cup that's still being drained.

The Gift I'm Giving Myself (And You)

On my birthday, I'm choosing rest. Not as a reward for getting through the year, but as a necessity for getting through the next nine days without collapsing. A space to pause, a space that will ensure I enjoy the festivities when they arrive.

And I'm toasting you, too.

To your courage, your effort, the beauty of your persistence.

And to the truth that rest is now overdue.

Not in January. Not after Christmas is over, and everyone's needs are met, and all the lists are complete.

Now.

Before the final push. Before you give what you don't have. Before your nervous system tips from coping into crisis.

If Not Now, When?

This is the moment, my love. The last real pause before Christmas chaos takes over completely.

In nine days, you'll be in the thick of it. In nine days, you'll be running on adrenaline and obligation. In nine days, it'll be too late to prevent the crash you can already feel coming.

But today? Today you still have a choice.

You can choose support. You can choose not to do this alone. You can choose to give yourself what your nervous system has been begging for all year: someone to help you regulate, rest, and remember what it feels like when your body feels safe again.

#Rebel Moment

Tonight, give yourself one moment of celebration. Not the fireworks kind. The honest kind.

Hand on heart. One slow breath. Whisper to yourself: I made it through this year.

This isn't self-congratulation.

This is self-acknowledgement.

And it's one of the most healing practices you can offer your nervous system.

Say it out loud if you can. Feel the weight of those words. Feel what your body has carried. Feel the truth of your own endurance.

You made it through this year. And you deserve support getting through the next nine days.

If you're reading this and feeling it in your bones, the exhaustion, the weight, the knowledge that you can't do another nine days like this, here's what you need to hear:

I got you! This is your last chance to get support before Christmas arrives.

I'm holding space for a handful of women who know they can't white-knuckle their way through another December. Women who are ready to stop performing and start actually experiencing the season.

I have two beautiful options for you:

→ Single Session: One hour of immediate nervous system support. We'll work together to help your body let go of what it's been holding, regulate the overwhelm, and find your anchor before Christmas hits. All this for just £97

→ Get Through December Package: Three sessions: two before Christmas to support you through the chaos, one in January to rebuild and restore. This is for women who know they need more than a quick fix, they need someone walking alongside them. I got you, and for just £247

If you're done carrying everything alone, DM me 'Ready' right now. I ready and waiting, trust me, I got just what you need, I know this feeling you are holding and I know exactly what you need. Let's get you through December and ensure you truly enjoy it this year.

This is my birthday gift to you: permission to ask for help. And an actual human who understands you and is ready to give you exactly what you need. I see you, beautiful, I see you!

Stay Blessed!

Nat x 🧡

P.S. If you're thinking "I should wait until January" or "I can get through this on my own", or "I don't want to bother anyone", that's your exhaustion talking, not your wisdom. Your body has been begging for support all year. Listen to her. DM me.

Exhausted but still brilliant? You bet you are.

Want some no-fluff, all-heart nervous system goodness popping into your inbox?

➔ Subscribe to Inside Nat’s Notebook, tea and giggles included. [Subscribe]

Are you ready to call time on tired?

➔ Book a FREE Reset Chat. Tea, biscuits, you, me and a little nervous system magic. [Chat with Nat]

It’s lighter on the other side, I promise. 🌟

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