10 Reasons Why We Deserve Recovery Time
The days are long but the years are short. That’s why we deserve recovery time.
A caregiving experience creates some of our life’s longest days. We manage so much, feel so intensely and work through crisis after crisis. Every moment in our day seems to require our courage, resilience, wisdom and tenacity.
Because of the day’s demands, we may be tempted to power through day after day. We may still hurt from yesterday but keep going because we have much to do today. The problem, though, is powering through without a break means we will run out of power.
Rather than giving in to just grinding it out, we can decide we deserve time for recovery. Here’s why:
Your tender heart needs TLC. You witness and experience heartbreak and heartache. Taking time for your heart to heal means your heart will be in good shape to beat during the joyful moments. You will know joy, too, and you want to be ready to fully feel it.
Your amazing body needs a break. Your body does so much for you during your day. Because it works so hard, it needs time to relax and to enjoy healthy food to refuel. Caring for your body today means you will have a healthy body when your future arrives.
Your tenacious spirit needs time to heal. Your courage and your resilience get you through so much. When you focus on healing your spirit by connecting with whom and what you love, you’ll have courage and resilience when you need them.
Abundance can feel so elusive during caregiving. When you recover, you also give your life a chance to re-stock what you need. After you fill up, you’ll connect to abundance.
Your moments move fast for you during caregiving. When you slow down to recover, life can catch up with you so you can receive your own wisdom. When you move too fast without taking time for reflection, you often leave wisdom behind.
Your focus on your own needs, which happens when you recover, means you give yourself a chance to keep a life during a life of caregiving.
You have given, which means you have so much yet to receive. Prioritizing your recovery means you give yourself better health so you can receive and celebrate the blessings coming your way.
When you take time to recover, you also take time to be fully present in your life’s moments. Your life includes moments you want to enjoy. You enjoy them when you recover. Without recovery time, you may just too tired and crabby to participate in these well-deserved good times.
You deserve to have moments during which you choose how to spend your time. When you commit to your own Recovery Plan, you give yourself an opportunity to choose who and what you include in those moments. Caregiving takes up so many of your moments. You need to have moments that prioritize your needs.
You matter. Because you matter, you need to give yourself recovery time. You matter during and after your caregiving experience.
Your Recovery Plan could take just a few moments, a few hours or even a few days. Your life is hard during caregiving which is why devoting time to recovery is an important investment in your well-being.
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