Emotional rest day.

Exerting your body physically, in the gym or otherwise, without taking sufficient rest is counter-productive. There's not much debate about it.

What about emotional labour, though?

Emotional fatigue is more challenging to acknowledge even though we can feel the signs.

If we want, we can push through our emotional reserves but does that help us get where we seek to go in the long run?

What can we do to refuel the reserves? And how can we give ourselves the permission to do that?