Recovery Phase
Whether you are actively recovering or pushing through fatigue. Recovery is where adaptation happens. Skipping it means the work you did does not stick.
Travis and the Death of Raven — Grief After Losing His Son
Recovery Phase kicked in hard for Travis after Raven died — not by choice at first, but by necessity. Travis Bates tried going back to work two months after losing his son, made a mess of things as shop manager, and his own crew sent him home. He sold his shares, took eight months completely off, and stopped going to living history events, grocery stores, anywhere people gathered. The switch finally flipped toward intentional recovery when he talked to his doctor and got on duloxetine — at that point the pulling-back stopped being collapse and started being something he was doing on purpose.