🎧 Episode 4: “Why Am I Always Tired — Even When I Do Nothing?”
Jude confesses he’s been waking up tired, staying tired, and going to bed tired — despite doing approximately the emotional equivalent of idling in neutral. Vera suggests that perhaps the nothing he’s doing isn’t as restful as he thinks. (Hint: doomscrolling and dissociation are not self-care.)

🧨 In This Episode:

• Jude wonders if he’s broken or just extremely online.

• Vera explains how ambient anxiety, late capitalism, and performative rest are slowly gnawing on all of us like raccoons in a blackout.

• They talk about how “doing nothing” still takes energy when your brain is a haunted file cabinet full of unfinished thoughts.

• There is a metaphor about digital burnout involving soup. It makes sense at the time.

• Vera reveals that true rest requires... boundaries. Jude reacts like she just said a slur.

🧠 Big Question:
“Why is rest so hard — even when there’s nothing to recover from?”

Spoiler: your nervous system disagrees. It thinks everything is a threat. Including brunch.

🎙️ Listen if you:

• Have ever opened Instagram and felt inexplicably worse within 7 seconds

• Are suspicious of people who say “just relax” unironically

• Confuse stillness with stagnation, and naps with failure

• Think burnout is your personality now

🖤 P.S.:
At minute 2:43, Vera accidentally describes the human condition as “an inbox that never empties.” Jude hasn't been the same since.

Let me know if you want me to design the matching episode graphic or just crawl into the void and never return. Your call, sunshine.