About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of replenishing emotional and spiritual reserves to maintain well-being.
Reserves are replenished when there’s more coming in than there is going out. That’s how it works. That’s why people come back from their vacations feeling better, and why folks who have taken real time off, like a sabbatical, come back almost different human beings. Your reserve tanks don’t just magically fill up, no more than your car’s gas tank does. They definitely don’t replenish when you’re burning everything just to maintain what you call your “normal life.” That’s why you make a plan for recovery and resilience. You’ll want to arrange for periods where more is coming in than is going out. Whatever your operating capacity is—whether that’s currently 40 percent, 60 percent, or 95 percent of what used to be your full capacity—your current operating capacity is what you need to pay attention to. You need to throttle back to allow your reserves to fill back up. I hear the objections at once: But you don’t know my life! You don’t know what my boss is asking of me! What my kids need right now! I completely understand. We are all hard-pressed, some of us more than others. But there’s a way to account for even this. We burn through so much of our emotional, mental, and spiritual…
People in this episode
Host: John Eldredge
Topics covered
- replenishment
- resilience
- emotional energy
- mental health
- sabbatical
- vacation
Keywords
- reserves
- recovery
- capacity
- energy
- sabbatical
- vacation
- mental health
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