Work Ends, But Your Second Shift Starts: Why You Can't Recover

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:
The harder the day, the harder it is to decompress
Even decompressing asks for energy you may not have left
Most rest advice assumes an after-work you with energy to spare
Judge the whole day, not the last five minutes at home
Signs a better transition after work isn't enough on its own
Decide ahead of time how your first few minutes home go
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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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