There is a particular kind of exhaustion that rest does not fix. You sleep, and you wake up tired. You take a weekend off, and by Monday you are back where you started. The tank refills slowly, or not at all. The body feels heavy in a way that is hard to describe — not painful exactly, just depleted. Like something that should be running is running on the wrong fuel. This is the presentation that restorative massage is designed for. And it is more common than people realise —