Bethany Knight 🚢
@bethanyknightwrite.bsky.social
Gentle systems to rebuild energy, trust & creativity in chronic illness, burnout, or overwhelm | Long COVID since 2022 | Practical tools to reclaim your spark.
For two years, I thought unpredictable energy crashes were just my "new normal" with chronic illness.
Then I discovered strategic rest: scheduling recovery breaks BEFORE I felt tired.
The push-crash cycle wasn't inevitable after all.
Then I discovered strategic rest: scheduling recovery breaks BEFORE I felt tired.
The push-crash cycle wasn't inevitable after all.
Are Your Energy Crashes Preventable? How Strategic Rest Changed Everything for Me
I spent two years believing my unpredictable energy crashes were just my new normal.
medium.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
For two years, I thought unpredictable energy crashes were just my "new normal" with chronic illness.
Then I discovered strategic rest: scheduling recovery breaks BEFORE I felt tired.
The push-crash cycle wasn't inevitable after all.
Then I discovered strategic rest: scheduling recovery breaks BEFORE I felt tired.
The push-crash cycle wasn't inevitable after all.
Rest isn’t a reward for getting things done.
It’s maintenance.
7 common mistakes that derail your pre-emptive rest plan, and how to avoid them.
It’s maintenance.
7 common mistakes that derail your pre-emptive rest plan, and how to avoid them.
7 Common Mistakes That Sabotage Your Pre-emptive Rest Schedule (and How to Avoid Them)
Have you ever noticed how quickly your energy reserves deplete when you’re already running on empty?
medium.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Rest isn’t a reward for getting things done.
It’s maintenance.
7 common mistakes that derail your pre-emptive rest plan, and how to avoid them.
It’s maintenance.
7 common mistakes that derail your pre-emptive rest plan, and how to avoid them.
Pre-emptive rest works best when it’s intentional and protected, but most of us unknowingly undermine it.
Here are 7 gentle fixes that help it stick.
Here are 7 gentle fixes that help it stick.
7 Common Mistakes That Sabotage Your Pre-emptive Rest Schedule (and How to Avoid Them)
Have you ever noticed how quickly your energy reserves deplete when you’re already running on empty?
medium.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Pre-emptive rest works best when it’s intentional and protected, but most of us unknowingly undermine it.
Here are 7 gentle fixes that help it stick.
Here are 7 gentle fixes that help it stick.
If I could talk to my newly diagnosed self, I’d tell her this:
Rest isn’t lazy.
It’s how you start to heal.
Rest isn’t lazy.
It’s how you start to heal.
How I Learned Rest Wasn’t Lazy: My Letter to My Newly Diagnosed Self
The medical system isn’t designed to help people with chronic conditions. It’s designed to keep us productive.
bethanyknight.medium.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
If I could talk to my newly diagnosed self, I’d tell her this:
Rest isn’t lazy.
It’s how you start to heal.
Rest isn’t lazy.
It’s how you start to heal.
Chronic illness can make your body feel like a stranger.
My new essay introduces the 4-step REST framework to help you rebuild trust, reframe rest, and learn to communicate with your body again.
Essential reading for a gentler path forward.
#ChronicIllness #SelfCare #Rest
My new essay introduces the 4-step REST framework to help you rebuild trust, reframe rest, and learn to communicate with your body again.
Essential reading for a gentler path forward.
#ChronicIllness #SelfCare #Rest
The 4-Step REST Framework: How To Build Trust In Your Body When Chronic Illness Changes Everything
When your body speaks a language you no longer understand, how do you learn to communicate with it again?
medium.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Chronic illness can make your body feel like a stranger.
My new essay introduces the 4-step REST framework to help you rebuild trust, reframe rest, and learn to communicate with your body again.
Essential reading for a gentler path forward.
#ChronicIllness #SelfCare #Rest
My new essay introduces the 4-step REST framework to help you rebuild trust, reframe rest, and learn to communicate with your body again.
Essential reading for a gentler path forward.
#ChronicIllness #SelfCare #Rest
Ever put your glasses on to listen to a podcast? Or made coffee with just granules?
My latest essay shares the wild reality of brain fog and why it's so much more than just forgetfulness.
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#BrainFog #ChronicIllness
My latest essay shares the wild reality of brain fog and why it's so much more than just forgetfulness.
medium.com/_bethanyk...
#BrainFog #ChronicIllness
3 Ridiculous Things I’ve Done While Battling Brain Fog (That You Might Recognize)
Your brain consumes 20% of your body’s energy even when you’re resting, but when fog sets in, it feels like it’s running on emergency power…
medium.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Ever put your glasses on to listen to a podcast? Or made coffee with just granules?
My latest essay shares the wild reality of brain fog and why it's so much more than just forgetfulness.
medium.com/_bethanyk...
#BrainFog #ChronicIllness
My latest essay shares the wild reality of brain fog and why it's so much more than just forgetfulness.
medium.com/_bethanyk...
#BrainFog #ChronicIllness
Tired of waiting until you’re exhausted to rest?
The 3-2-1 Rest Method is a simple way to pace your energy and prevent crashes.
Three check-ins, two rest blocks, one weekly reset.
Friend link, so you can read for free:
The 3–2–1 Rest Method: A Simple Framework for Maximising Energy Without Triggering Crashes
What if your body kept an invisible energy ledger, one you overdraw a little further every day you skip rest?
medium.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Tired of waiting until you’re exhausted to rest?
The 3-2-1 Rest Method is a simple way to pace your energy and prevent crashes.
Three check-ins, two rest blocks, one weekly reset.
Friend link, so you can read for free:
Brain fog isn’t just inconvenient — it’s a thief.
It steals your productivity, confidence, and sense of self.
After years of chronic illness, these 3 daily practices have become my antidote to brain fog.🧵
It steals your productivity, confidence, and sense of self.
After years of chronic illness, these 3 daily practices have become my antidote to brain fog.🧵
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Brain fog isn’t just inconvenient — it’s a thief.
It steals your productivity, confidence, and sense of self.
After years of chronic illness, these 3 daily practices have become my antidote to brain fog.🧵
It steals your productivity, confidence, and sense of self.
After years of chronic illness, these 3 daily practices have become my antidote to brain fog.🧵
Reposted by Bethany Knight 🚢
List of suspects for the Louvre heist:
- the muppets
- George Clooney and his friends
- the beagle boys and ma beagle
- literally any cat
- the snake from Disney’s Robin Hood
- the muppets
- George Clooney and his friends
- the beagle boys and ma beagle
- literally any cat
- the snake from Disney’s Robin Hood
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
List of suspects for the Louvre heist:
- the muppets
- George Clooney and his friends
- the beagle boys and ma beagle
- literally any cat
- the snake from Disney’s Robin Hood
- the muppets
- George Clooney and his friends
- the beagle boys and ma beagle
- literally any cat
- the snake from Disney’s Robin Hood
Yes! Please make a point of existing in the real world, the world of things made by people, and form your own opinions, and then go and make new things.
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Yes! Please make a point of existing in the real world, the world of things made by people, and form your own opinions, and then go and make new things.
For two years, I thought unpredictable energy crashes were just my "new normal" with chronic illness.
Then I discovered strategic rest: scheduling recovery breaks BEFORE I felt tired.
The push-crash cycle wasn't inevitable after all.
Then I discovered strategic rest: scheduling recovery breaks BEFORE I felt tired.
The push-crash cycle wasn't inevitable after all.
Are Your Energy Crashes Preventable? How Strategic Rest Changed Everything for Me
I spent two years believing my unpredictable energy crashes were just my new normal.
medium.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
For two years, I thought unpredictable energy crashes were just my "new normal" with chronic illness.
Then I discovered strategic rest: scheduling recovery breaks BEFORE I felt tired.
The push-crash cycle wasn't inevitable after all.
Then I discovered strategic rest: scheduling recovery breaks BEFORE I felt tired.
The push-crash cycle wasn't inevitable after all.
Reposted by Bethany Knight 🚢
Today #selfcare looked like nerdgaming, scary movies, kittens.
What did it look like for you?
#TakeYourMeds
#DrinkMoreWater
#ToDefeatTheNazis
What did it look like for you?
#TakeYourMeds
#DrinkMoreWater
#ToDefeatTheNazis
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Today #selfcare looked like nerdgaming, scary movies, kittens.
What did it look like for you?
#TakeYourMeds
#DrinkMoreWater
#ToDefeatTheNazis
What did it look like for you?
#TakeYourMeds
#DrinkMoreWater
#ToDefeatTheNazis
Reposted by Bethany Knight 🚢
Stop pushing through.
That’s how we broke.
If it costs your self-regulation, it’s too expensive.
Rest is essential - it’s not weakness
It’s strength.
That’s how we broke.
If it costs your self-regulation, it’s too expensive.
Rest is essential - it’s not weakness
It’s strength.
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Stop pushing through.
That’s how we broke.
If it costs your self-regulation, it’s too expensive.
Rest is essential - it’s not weakness
It’s strength.
That’s how we broke.
If it costs your self-regulation, it’s too expensive.
Rest is essential - it’s not weakness
It’s strength.
Productivity culture rewards exhaustion and shames rest.
For people with chronic illness, that message isn’t motivational — it’s harmful.
Here’s why rest isn’t laziness, and what needs to change.
medium.com/@bethanyk...
For people with chronic illness, that message isn’t motivational — it’s harmful.
Here’s why rest isn’t laziness, and what needs to change.
medium.com/@bethanyk...
October 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Productivity culture rewards exhaustion and shames rest.
For people with chronic illness, that message isn’t motivational — it’s harmful.
Here’s why rest isn’t laziness, and what needs to change.
medium.com/@bethanyk...
For people with chronic illness, that message isn’t motivational — it’s harmful.
Here’s why rest isn’t laziness, and what needs to change.
medium.com/@bethanyk...
How to help, and, even more importantly, how to accept help. I loved this suggestion: "My suggestion is to make a list [of ways people can help you] when you’re not at your lowest. What little tasks would be nice to pass along to someone else on any old day of the week?"
medium.com/@sophielucid...
medium.com/@sophielucid...
Instead Of: “Let Me Know If There Is Anything I Can Do”
How to help and be helped when it feels impossible
medium.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
How to help, and, even more importantly, how to accept help. I loved this suggestion: "My suggestion is to make a list [of ways people can help you] when you’re not at your lowest. What little tasks would be nice to pass along to someone else on any old day of the week?"
medium.com/@sophielucid...
medium.com/@sophielucid...
Reposted by Bethany Knight 🚢
Just for today, speak to yourself w/ warmth & realism (no, they're not incompatible, no matter what Trauma Brain says). Try it on. Consider compassionate self-talk a recovery tool you're experimenting w/.
No pressure, no rush. You're developing a tool. No more, no less.
No pressure, no rush. You're developing a tool. No more, no less.
October 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Just for today, speak to yourself w/ warmth & realism (no, they're not incompatible, no matter what Trauma Brain says). Try it on. Consider compassionate self-talk a recovery tool you're experimenting w/.
No pressure, no rush. You're developing a tool. No more, no less.
No pressure, no rush. You're developing a tool. No more, no less.
Reposted by Bethany Knight 🚢
Not fight or flight but a secret third thing and it’s this guy who lives inside my head
October 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Not fight or flight but a secret third thing and it’s this guy who lives inside my head
Most people only rest after they crash.
Here are 7 simple mistakes that sabotage pre-emptive rest — and how to fix them.
Here are 7 simple mistakes that sabotage pre-emptive rest — and how to fix them.
7 Common Mistakes That Sabotage Your Pre-emptive Rest Schedule (and How to Avoid Them)
Have you ever noticed how quickly your energy reserves deplete when you’re already running on empty?
medium.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Most people only rest after they crash.
Here are 7 simple mistakes that sabotage pre-emptive rest — and how to fix them.
Here are 7 simple mistakes that sabotage pre-emptive rest — and how to fix them.
When I was newly diagnosed, I thought rest was something you did after the work.
Now I know rest is the work.
Here’s the letter I wish I could send to my former self.
Now I know rest is the work.
Here’s the letter I wish I could send to my former self.
How I Learned Rest Wasn’t Lazy: My Letter to My Newly Diagnosed Self
The medical system isn’t designed to help people with chronic conditions. It’s designed to keep us productive.
bethanyknight.medium.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
When I was newly diagnosed, I thought rest was something you did after the work.
Now I know rest is the work.
Here’s the letter I wish I could send to my former self.
Now I know rest is the work.
Here’s the letter I wish I could send to my former self.
Reposted by Bethany Knight 🚢
🌟✨ From the artist: Elizabeth Jelley
‘This #artwork is a representation of what my life has become and what I no longer can do because of Long Covid. The news articles in the background showcase how I must constantly be aware of any news on my condition.
The shadow figures
#LongCovidKids #Artwork
‘This #artwork is a representation of what my life has become and what I no longer can do because of Long Covid. The news articles in the background showcase how I must constantly be aware of any news on my condition.
The shadow figures
#LongCovidKids #Artwork
October 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🌟✨ From the artist: Elizabeth Jelley
‘This #artwork is a representation of what my life has become and what I no longer can do because of Long Covid. The news articles in the background showcase how I must constantly be aware of any news on my condition.
The shadow figures
#LongCovidKids #Artwork
‘This #artwork is a representation of what my life has become and what I no longer can do because of Long Covid. The news articles in the background showcase how I must constantly be aware of any news on my condition.
The shadow figures
#LongCovidKids #Artwork
Interesting thoughts about the term "brain fog." It's definitely something I've considered before, and I've never really found a term that fits better for me.
““When my #BrainFog is bad I cannot process people’s #speech. I describe it as words floating past me like pretty butterflies – I hear them so know they are there, but they have no meaning.” ~ F”: buff.ly/4HciD9K
from @limberation.com
#CognitiveImpairment #cognition #disabled
from @limberation.com
#CognitiveImpairment #cognition #disabled
Brain Fog? Cognitive Impairment? Which Sounds More Serious?
Do you experience cognitive impairment/brain fog? I am over the term brain fog. Let’s be honest here, it is cognitive impairment.
buff.ly
October 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Interesting thoughts about the term "brain fog." It's definitely something I've considered before, and I've never really found a term that fits better for me.
Today's Long COVID brain fog fun:
Repeatedly getting confused between my glasses and my earphones.
Why does putting on my earphones not make it any easier to read?
#longcovid #brainfog
Repeatedly getting confused between my glasses and my earphones.
Why does putting on my earphones not make it any easier to read?
#longcovid #brainfog
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Today's Long COVID brain fog fun:
Repeatedly getting confused between my glasses and my earphones.
Why does putting on my earphones not make it any easier to read?
#longcovid #brainfog
Repeatedly getting confused between my glasses and my earphones.
Why does putting on my earphones not make it any easier to read?
#longcovid #brainfog
Most of us only rest when we’re already in the red.
The 3-2-1 Rest Method helps you build rest in instead of waiting until you crash.
Friend link, so you can read for free:
The 3-2-1 Rest Method helps you build rest in instead of waiting until you crash.
Friend link, so you can read for free:
The 3–2–1 Rest Method: A Simple Framework for Maximising Energy Without Triggering Crashes
What if your body kept an invisible energy ledger, one you overdraw a little further every day you skip rest?
medium.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Most of us only rest when we’re already in the red.
The 3-2-1 Rest Method helps you build rest in instead of waiting until you crash.
Friend link, so you can read for free:
The 3-2-1 Rest Method helps you build rest in instead of waiting until you crash.
Friend link, so you can read for free:
I'm writing about the things I need reminding of.
Maybe you need the reminder too?
Friend link, so you can read even if you're not a Medium member 🤗 bethanyknight.medium...
#RestRevolution #LongCovid #RestAsRecovery
Maybe you need the reminder too?
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#RestRevolution #LongCovid #RestAsRecovery
Are You Waiting Until You’re Exhausted to Rest? Why This Common Mistake Is Blocking Your Recovery
At 3:27 p.m. on a Tuesday, I found myself staring blankly at my screen, too exhausted to form a coherent thought. Again.
bethanyknight.medium.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I'm writing about the things I need reminding of.
Maybe you need the reminder too?
Friend link, so you can read even if you're not a Medium member 🤗 bethanyknight.medium...
#RestRevolution #LongCovid #RestAsRecovery
Maybe you need the reminder too?
Friend link, so you can read even if you're not a Medium member 🤗 bethanyknight.medium...
#RestRevolution #LongCovid #RestAsRecovery
Reposted by Bethany Knight 🚢
If only all of our spoons could be used on things which regulate us and give us fulfilment…
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If only all of our spoons could be used on things which regulate us and give us fulfilment…