Dr. Joy Kong compares daily mental effort to athletic training: your brain needs structured recovery just like an athlete's body does. Without intentional rest and self-compassion, you risk burnout and mental collapse. Recovery isn't optional.
And just think, like, we, for some reason, this makes sense for if we think of any professional athlete, right? Like, they're going as hard as they can during their game and their sport and their practices, but they're also recovering. You can't perform at that level without proper recovery. And most of us, we're doing that with our minds daily. It's like we're, it's like we're doing a high-intensity workout with zero recovery and then wondering why our minds seem like they're exploding. I mean, they can only take so much, right? So it's just, I think it's just giving us ourselves the permission and not to judge ourselves, but just, yeah, you know what, today was a bit intense. How can I recover? What, what does my mind need? I just want people to wake up feeling great more days than not. Everything else follows from there.
