Recovery isn’t a weekend
If burnout built up over months, a weekend off won’t fix it, and expecting it to just makes things worse. What real recovery looks like: taking load off first, riding the ups and downs, finding your way back to people.
Is this stress, or is this burnout?
They get treated as the same thing, but the way out is different. A simple way to tell which one you’re actually dealing with, so you’re not fixing the wrong problem.