It's Sunday evening. The weekend is ending. Monday is coming. And that familiar dread is settling in. Let's talk about it before it ruins your night.
It starts around 4pm on Sunday. Sometimes earlier. A heaviness that has nothing to do with what's actually happening right now. The weekend—your time—is ending. Monday is coming. And with it, everything you've been not thinking about since Friday.
The emails you haven't answered. The meeting you're dreading. The project that's behind. The coworker you can't stand. The vague but persistent feeling that you're falling behind at something, though you can't quite name what.
So you spend Sunday evening pre-living Monday's stress. You're not relaxing—you're waiting. The anxiety steals the last hours of your weekend, which means you start the week already depleted. It's a cycle: dread Sunday, survive Monday, recover Tuesday, and by Wednesday you're counting down to Friday again.
ILTY is here for Sunday evenings. Process the dread. Separate the real concerns from the manufactured ones. Figure out what you're actually anxious about. Sometimes naming it takes its power away.
Vague dread is worse than specific concerns. ILTY helps you identify exactly what about Monday is triggering the anxiety. Often it's smaller than it feels.
Some of the Sunday dread is about actual problems. Some of it is your brain's habit of anticipating threat. ILTY helps you tell the difference.
If Sunday dread is severe and chronic, it might be telling you something about your job. ILTY helps you explore whether this is normal stress or a sign something needs to change.
You deserve your weekend. Process the anxiety now so it doesn't shadow your entire evening. A ten-minute conversation can be the difference between dread and rest.
We want to be clear about our limitations:
Extremely. Studies suggest a majority of working adults experience some form of Sunday anxiety. It's your brain's way of transitioning from rest mode to performance mode. That said, there's a difference between mild 'ugh, Monday' feelings and severe dread that ruins your evening. If it's the latter consistently, it's worth exploring what's driving it.
Not everyone hates their job, but far more people experience work dread than will admit it. Sunday scaries don't necessarily mean you hate your job—they can come from specific situations (a difficult project, a tough boss) rather than the job as a whole. ILTY helps you figure out whether it's a phase, a specific problem, or a deeper misalignment.
There's no quick fix, but processing the anxiety rather than trying to distract yourself from it is a good start. Understanding what specifically you're dreading helps you either address it or put it in perspective. Some people find that doing a small amount of Monday preparation on Sunday reduces the ambiguity that fuels the dread.
ILTY is free during beta. Start a conversation and see if it helps with what you're going through.