Let it all go — you heal by doing nothing at all, letting feelings pass on their own.
Recovery for you means full permission to do nothing. No productivity requirement, no emotional processing deadline, no social obligation. Just time, space, and whatever show, album, or corner of the internet calls to you. Everything else can wait.
Your trust in time as a healer is actually well-calibrated. Not all processing needs to be active. Passive absorption — losing yourself in fiction, letting music wash over you — allows emotions to settle in ways that forced processing often can't achieve.
The trap is when 'resting' slides into avoidance — when one day of nothing becomes a week, and the original source of burnout hasn't been acknowledged at all. A light check-in with what happened, even just a few sentences, helps prevent rest from becoming escape.