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Build daily recovery so stress stops leaking into sleep, food, and mood.
90-day plan · Free · No login required
Chronic stress doesn't stay in your head — it leaks into your sleep, your food, and your mood until your whole baseline runs hot. You can't push your way out of it, because pushing is what got you here.
This plan lowers the baseline load with small daily recovery habits — a decompress ritual, a breathing reset, protected rest — until 'switched off' stops being something you've forgotten how to do.
The 90-day goal
Chronic stress quietly taxes everything — small recovery habits pay it back.
How you'll know it's working
Kept a daily 10-minute decompress ritual for two weeks
Held one screen-free evening every week for a month
Notice a calmer baseline on most days
The daily engine
Daily decompress
When I close my laptop for the day, I will do my 10-minute decompress ritual.
Breathing reset
When I feel my chest tighten, I will take five slow breaths.
Start here
Define a shutdown ritual
A short fixed sequence that tells your brain the workday is over.
Schedule one rest block
Protect a recurring window that's purely for recovery, not errands.
Swap one stress-eat trigger
Pick your most common trigger and pre-decide a better response.
For when it gets hard
Decide your response now, so motivation running out doesn't end the plan.
If I keep checking work, then I move my phone to another room for the rest block.
If I reach for a stress snack, then I drink water and wait 10 minutes first.
If rest feels unproductive, then I remind myself recovery is what makes the work possible.
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