Burnout has become a fashionable word, which has been useful (it's discussed) and unhelpful (it's softened). Clinically, burnout has three signatures: emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and a reduced sense of accomplishment. All three together. None of them are fixed by a long weekend.

A holiday lowers the load. It does not change the system that produced the burnout. Two weeks off, then back to the same pattern, and you're back where you started inside a fortnight. What needs to change is the load↔recovery rhythm itself, and the meaning structure underneath it.

Three ingredients, in order. First, restore the body — sleep architecture, movement, nutrition, the basics. Second, restore regulation — CR work to bring the nervous system back to baseline reliably. Third, restore meaning — the slow, often uncomfortable work of asking whether what you're spending your life on is what you actually want to be spending it on.

If any of this is landing for you, take the PSS-10 on this site, and let's plan the recovery together.