08/02/2026
You wake up in the morning already tired and drained.
Tired because you haven’t slept well in days. You keep tossing and turning, or you can only find comfort in one particular position — and if you miss that sweet spot, it takes ages to find comfort again.
When you finally get out of bed, you’re stiff, slightly hunched over like a question mark, and you cautiously take your first steps, wary of what might send you into a downward spiral.
From experience, the first 30–60 minutes of the day are the most crucial, because they decide whether it will be an OK day or a terrible one.
When nothing happens in the first hour, you assume you’ll be fine, so you dismiss the problem, letting it fall further down your to-do list.
But on the days when you accidentally make the “wrong” move, you know that it sets the tone for: the entire day.
By this point, you’ve tried multiple painkillers or NSAIDs. They help less and less over time, and they upset your stomach.
You’ve googled exercises or been given some, but you don’t do them — not because you don’t want to, but because life gets in the way. The last thing you want to do is get on the floor and follow a 10–20-minute program every day when you barely have the energy and capacity to power through some of your days.
Your focus is slipping. People talk over you because you can’t concentrate properly.
Every third thought is about wishing your younger self would return — when you could do almost anything and still wake up the next day like nothing happened.
