23/10/2026
Tired of the costume. I want to be clear. You are not tired of your life. You are tired of who you have to be inside of it. There is a big difference. The version of you at work, the version at the family dinner, the agreeable one, the strong one, the one who has it all together. Every persona you wear costs energy to maintain, the way holding a mask up costs your arm, and some of you have been holding three or four masks for decades. That exhaustion no sleep fixes, this is it. You are not overworked. You are overperformed.
Here is the test. Think of the one person you can be completely yourself around, if you have even one. Notice how rested you feel after seeing them. That is not because they are relaxing. It is because for an hour, or whatever time you spend with them, your arms got to come down and your nervous system got to be free.
The work I do is not about becoming someone new. It is about setting down what was never you, so that the real one underneath is not tired at all.
How many masks are you holding right now? Put a number in the comments. cristhiancadenas.com