Episode 13: This is your brain on breaks!

What does your typical day look like? Does it include regularly occurring breaks or do you often find yourself constantly on the go? If you’re like most of the female mental health therapists we’ve spoken with, most of your days probably feel like you’re going non-stop, both at work and at home. And while there can admittedly be some sense of accomplishment that comes with fitting as many things from our never ending “to-do list” into our days, it comes at a cost.

In this podcast episode we talk about the concepts of energy expenditure and energy recovery and three important ways that breaks can contribute to your self-care. And, as always, we wrap up the episode with some practical self-care experiments, because taking breaks is often much harder than it seems! So if you’re in need of some justification for yourself, or others, about why we truly need breaks, then we hope you will tune in.

Episode Highlights:

• The importance of both energy expenditure and energy recovery
• Work and rest are partners
• We can get better at rest
• 3 benefits of taking breaks
• Self-care experiments