Workday Recovery Routine

A short daily sequence to help you shift out of work mode and recover. You first learn why psychological detachment and sleep matter for recovery, then run an end-of-day wind-down ritual, then protect deliberate off-work recovery activities. This is an individual recovery habit: it helps you recover from ordinary work strain, but it cannot offset chronically excessive workloads, understaffing, or an always-on culture that structurally prevents detachment. If off-hours work intrusions are being imposed on you, this routine supports you but does not fix the underlying conditions.

Grade inherited from the evidence blocks this routine implements. Duration is a starting point (do more or less); the app just tells you where you land against the evidence-based dose.

1
Psychological Detachment and Recovery
Read once at the start of the week; use as the rationale for protecting your off-hours and sleep
2
After-Work Wind-Down: A Detachment Routine
5-15 min at the end of each workday (shutdown ritual, brief walk, or plan-tomorrow note)
3
Recovery Activities: Recharging Outside Work
Ongoing: protect sleep plus at least one absorbing non-work activity each evening/week

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