We have built an enormous market around helping exhausted people recover just enough to return to the structure that exhausted them.

The break works.

The retreat helps.

The nervous system settles.

The founder feels like herself again.

Then Monday arrives, and the business consumes everything she restored before lunch.

At that point, the question is not whether she is resting correctly.

The question is what she keeps returning to.

In this episode of The Aligned Edit, Veronica examines the exhaustion economy, the market built around treating structurally produced exhaustion as an individual recovery problem.

This is not an argument against rest, therapy, nervous system work, retreats, routines, or recovery tools. Those things can be useful, necessary, and genuinely life-changing.

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