Bethany Knight 🚢
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Gentle systems to rebuild energy, trust & creativity in chronic illness, burnout, or overwhelm | Long COVID since 2022 | Practical tools to reclaim your spark.
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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.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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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?
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October 28, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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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?
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October 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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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.
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October 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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?
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October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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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…
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October 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Now I use Tana, which is a notetaking/organising software, but any kind of notes app or whatever would work.
For me the biggest help comes from just putting everything in ONE place. I don't do well if I have to remember that X is in my emails, and Y is saved in Google Keep.
Does that help?
For me the biggest help comes from just putting everything in ONE place. I don't do well if I have to remember that X is in my emails, and Y is saved in Google Keep.
Does that help?
October 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Now I use Tana, which is a notetaking/organising software, but any kind of notes app or whatever would work.
For me the biggest help comes from just putting everything in ONE place. I don't do well if I have to remember that X is in my emails, and Y is saved in Google Keep.
Does that help?
For me the biggest help comes from just putting everything in ONE place. I don't do well if I have to remember that X is in my emails, and Y is saved in Google Keep.
Does that help?
I just mean somewhere to keep everything. So, for a long time, that was just a big, messy, jumbled notebook for me, with a lot of sticky notes to mark pages I needed to reference often.
October 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I just mean somewhere to keep everything. So, for a long time, that was just a big, messy, jumbled notebook for me, with a lot of sticky notes to mark pages I needed to reference often.
Somehow, getting it all out of my head and onto the page - or into a voice note - frees my brain up from having to hold onto All The Things, and gives me just a little extra capacity for the important stuff ... like remembering my own car number plate when paying for parking.
October 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Somehow, getting it all out of my head and onto the page - or into a voice note - frees my brain up from having to hold onto All The Things, and gives me just a little extra capacity for the important stuff ... like remembering my own car number plate when paying for parking.
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After Years of Chronic Illness, I’m Convinced These 3 Daily Practices Are the Antidote to Brain Fog
I joked with the checkout assistant as I held up the queue at Tesco while I tried, repeatedly, to pay for my shopping using half a dozen…
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October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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These practices won’t cure brain fog.
But they create a safety net of structure, self-compassion, and calm predictability, that helps you function on even the foggy days.
Externalise what's difficult.
Create gentle structure.
Give your brain grace.
But they create a safety net of structure, self-compassion, and calm predictability, that helps you function on even the foggy days.
Externalise what's difficult.
Create gentle structure.
Give your brain grace.
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
These practices won’t cure brain fog.
But they create a safety net of structure, self-compassion, and calm predictability, that helps you function on even the foggy days.
Externalise what's difficult.
Create gentle structure.
Give your brain grace.
But they create a safety net of structure, self-compassion, and calm predictability, that helps you function on even the foggy days.
Externalise what's difficult.
Create gentle structure.
Give your brain grace.
3. Opening + Closing Duties
Like a café routine: start and end the day with small check-ins.
Morning: glance over your calendar and priorities.
Evening: reflect and reset.
These bookends help contain your day and remind you it’s okay to stop.
Like a café routine: start and end the day with small check-ins.
Morning: glance over your calendar and priorities.
Evening: reflect and reset.
These bookends help contain your day and remind you it’s okay to stop.
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
3. Opening + Closing Duties
Like a café routine: start and end the day with small check-ins.
Morning: glance over your calendar and priorities.
Evening: reflect and reset.
These bookends help contain your day and remind you it’s okay to stop.
Like a café routine: start and end the day with small check-ins.
Morning: glance over your calendar and priorities.
Evening: reflect and reset.
These bookends help contain your day and remind you it’s okay to stop.
2. Morning Brain Dump
Empty your mind before the day’s demands stack up.
Stream-of-consciousness writing, voice notes, or a quick list over coffee — whatever helps you unburden your brain and make space to think.
Empty your mind before the day’s demands stack up.
Stream-of-consciousness writing, voice notes, or a quick list over coffee — whatever helps you unburden your brain and make space to think.
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
2. Morning Brain Dump
Empty your mind before the day’s demands stack up.
Stream-of-consciousness writing, voice notes, or a quick list over coffee — whatever helps you unburden your brain and make space to think.
Empty your mind before the day’s demands stack up.
Stream-of-consciousness writing, voice notes, or a quick list over coffee — whatever helps you unburden your brain and make space to think.
1. External Brain
When your brain’s unreliable, build a reliable one outside yourself.
A “catch-all” system gives you a backup.
It doesn’t stop brain fog, but it lets you find what you need in seconds.
When your brain’s at low capacity, outsource the mental load wherever you can.
When your brain’s unreliable, build a reliable one outside yourself.
A “catch-all” system gives you a backup.
It doesn’t stop brain fog, but it lets you find what you need in seconds.
When your brain’s at low capacity, outsource the mental load wherever you can.
October 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
1. External Brain
When your brain’s unreliable, build a reliable one outside yourself.
A “catch-all” system gives you a backup.
It doesn’t stop brain fog, but it lets you find what you need in seconds.
When your brain’s at low capacity, outsource the mental load wherever you can.
When your brain’s unreliable, build a reliable one outside yourself.
A “catch-all” system gives you a backup.
It doesn’t stop brain fog, but it lets you find what you need in seconds.
When your brain’s at low capacity, outsource the mental load wherever you can.
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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.
bethanyknight.medium.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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