09/01/2026
Chronic illness burnout doesn’t take a vacation. You can rest for a full week and still come home depleted — because the exhaustion isn’t coming from your calendar, it’s coming from your body and your nervous system running at capacity all the time.
If rest only ever feels like recovery time and never actually restores you, that’s not a discipline problem. That’s a baseline problem.
Save this for the next time you feel guilty for not “bouncing back.”