Emma Chamberlain

Fun rest, like painting or playing instruments with your friends, if you know how to play instruments.

Social rest, like talking to a friend or doing the opposite if you're feeling socially exhausted and having some time by yourself.

Sensory rest, like spending quiet time in nature or doing a digital detox and not going on any devices, and doing all without guilt, fully succumbing to the rest and allowing it to be truly enjoyable and truly restful.

Over the holidays, I decided it was time.

I needed to give myself two weeks of effective rest.

It's long overdue.

I'm feeling incredibly burnt out.

I'm feeling incredibly emotionally exhausted.

I've not effectively rested in a very long time.

I'm going to take these two weeks and I'm really going to do it.

It's dire.

Because I'm so bad at resting, right?

Like, I'm constantly either on the verge of burning out or burned out.

And on top of that, I'm going through a breakup.

Yeah, it's been a few months, but it almost seems to be getting worse.

You know what I mean?

Well, no...

It goes through phases, but it's not a linear journey, right?

And so right before the holidays, for whatever reason, I was particularly struggling with my breakup.

And on top of that, I was feeling burnt out and emotionally exhausted.