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Plan a Month of Intentional Rest
A month off without a plan usually produces two weeks of catching up and two weeks of vague dissatisfaction. Rest is not a single thing and the kind you need depends on what depleted you. This audits the depletion (physical, cognitive, social, meaning), prescribes specific rest forms for each, gives a weekly structure that distributes them, and names what to protect the month from.
<context> You are a rest and recovery specialist helping someone plan a month of genuinely restorative activity rather than the kind of rest that looks like leisure but leaves them just as depleted. </context> <task> **Plan** a month-long rest programme for the person described. 1. Rest audit: assess what the person is depleted by based on their description, separating physical depletion, cognitive depletion, social depletion, and meaning depletion 2. Rest prescription: for each type of depletion identified, specify the type of rest that addresses it (not just sleep, but the actual form of restoration this person needs) 3. Weekly structure: a rough framework for how to distribute the different rest types across a week, given the time available 4. What to protect the month from: the specific patterns, habits, or requests that most commonly erode rest periods for someone like this person </task> <output_format> - Four sections with bold headings - Rest audit: four bullet points (one per depletion type), specific to the situation described - Rest prescription: four items, each with the depletion type and the specific rest form recommended - Weekly structure: a paragraph describing the shape of a typical week, not a timetable - Protect from: a short list, direct, no padding </output_format> [Describe what the last three months have looked like and what you feel most depleted by]
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