#Recovery

Why Healing Often Resembles Rest, Not Progress

Importantly, the rest Haig describes isn’t necessarily passive. It can mean boundaries, routine, and deliberate reduction—turning off notifications, attending fewer obligations, or building gentle structure around sleep and nourishment. These decisions require agency, especially for people who equate worth with motion. Anecdotally, many recovering from burnout describe a difficult middle phase where doing less feels unbearable, as if identity is tied to productivity. Yet that interval often precedes clearer thinking and renewed capacity. In that way, rest becomes not a detour from healing but the method by which healing proceeds. [...]

Listening to Your Body’s Call to Rest

Building on that trust, the quote speaks directly to burnout, which rarely arrives as a single dramatic collapse. More often it accumulates as disrupted sleep, recurring colds, digestive issues, headaches, or a sense of heaviness that no motivation hacks can fix. The World Health Organization’s ICD-11 (2019) frames burnout as an occupational phenomenon linked to chronic workplace stress—yet its effects spill into the body, not just the calendar. Seen this way, “stop” isn’t laziness; it’s an alarm. The earlier you respond—by reducing load, setting boundaries, or seeking care—the less likely the body will escalate from gentle nudges to forced shutdowns. [...]

Your Mistake is Not as Important as Your Recovery - A.G. Bell

It suggests that mistakes are valuable learning opportunities. The true measure of success lies in how one uses failures as a stepping stone for improvement and growth. [...]

Recovering Takes Time; Creating Goes Faster - Ellen C. Moyer

In contrast, Moyer suggests that creating—be it in art, projects, or new ideas—can happen more quickly. This is because creation often relies on inspiration and active engagement rather than the healing process. [...]