After browsing dictionaries and thesauri for about half an hour trying to come up with clear names for the two types of days you defined, I concluded that the best option is to call Recovery Days “Rest Days in which you’re tired”, and Rest Days “Rest Days in which you’re not tired”. I’m curious to hear if that works for other people.
Note: the best eliminated candidates for Recovery Day were “Chill Day”, “Sloth Day”, “Lazy Day” and “Slow Day”; the best for Rest Day were “Free Day” and “Aimless Day”. These candidates wouldn’t remove ambiguity.
“Free Day”, while perhaps not the best option overall, has the merit that these days involving freeing the part of you that communicatess through your gut (and through what you feel like doing). During much of our working (and non-working) week, that part is overridden by our mind’s sense of what we have to do.
By contrast, in OP’s Recovery Days this part is either:
(a) doing the most basic recharging before it can do things it positively feels like and enjoys, or
(b) overridden or hijacked by addictive behaviours that it doesn’t find as roundly rewarding as Free Day activities.
After browsing dictionaries and thesauri for about half an hour trying to come up with clear names for the two types of days you defined, I concluded that the best option is to call Recovery Days “Rest Days in which you’re tired”, and Rest Days “Rest Days in which you’re not tired”. I’m curious to hear if that works for other people.
Note: the best eliminated candidates for Recovery Day were “Chill Day”, “Sloth Day”, “Lazy Day” and “Slow Day”; the best for Rest Day were “Free Day” and “Aimless Day”. These candidates wouldn’t remove ambiguity.
“Free Day”, while perhaps not the best option overall, has the merit that these days involving freeing the part of you that communicatess through your gut (and through what you feel like doing). During much of our working (and non-working) week, that part is overridden by our mind’s sense of what we have to do.
By contrast, in OP’s Recovery Days this part is either:
(a) doing the most basic recharging before it can do things it positively feels like and enjoys, or
(b) overridden or hijacked by addictive behaviours that it doesn’t find as roundly rewarding as Free Day activities.
Addiction can also be seen as a lack of freedom.