Too tired to relax after work, and too depleted to even know what you need? Kristen answers a listener's question with the recovery paradox: the harder the day, the more recovery you need, and the less capacity you have left to get it. She comes back to last week's hospice social worker and looks at what happens when you leave a job where people depend on you and walk straight into a home where they depend on you again.
Some takeaways:
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Chapters:
00:00 Running on Empty and Can't Switch Off
01:05 The Driveway After a Long Shift
02:09 The Recovery Paradox
03:13 More Rest, Less Capacity Left
04:56 When Rest Advice Stops Being Useful
05:53 Working Mothers Study and Scrolling
07:22 10 Minutes in the Car
09:00 Three Questions to Ask Yourself
09:45 Clinical Note, Assessment, Next Episode
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