I’ll try my hand at Tabooing and analyzing the words. Epistemic status: modeling other people’s models.
Type A days are for changing from a damaged/low-energy state into a functioning state, while Type B days are for maintaining that functioning state by allowing periodic breaks from stressors/time to satisfy needs/?.
I think Unreal means Recovery as in “recovering from a problematic state into a better one”. I’m not sure what’s up with Rest—I think we lack a good word for Type B. “Rest” is peaceful/slackful, which is right, but it also seems inactive/passive which doesn’t match the intended meaning. If you emphasize the inactivity/passivity of Rest then it fits better with Type A. (I think this partly explains the reversal.)
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.
I’ll try my hand at Tabooing and analyzing the words. Epistemic status: modeling other people’s models.
Type A days are for changing from a damaged/low-energy state into a functioning state, while Type B days are for maintaining that functioning state by allowing periodic breaks from stressors/time to satisfy needs/?.
I think Unreal means Recovery as in “recovering from a problematic state into a better one”. I’m not sure what’s up with Rest—I think we lack a good word for Type B. “Rest” is peaceful/slackful, which is right, but it also seems inactive/passive which doesn’t match the intended meaning. If you emphasize the inactivity/passivity of Rest then it fits better with Type A. (I think this partly explains the reversal.)
Connotations of Rest that I find relevant:
lack of anxiety
PSNS activation
relaxed body (while not necessarily inactive or passive body)
a state that you can be in indefinitely, in theory (whereas Recover suggests temporary)
meditative (vs medicative)
not trying to do anything / not needing anything (whereas Recover suggests goal orientation)
Rest feels more sacred than Recovery
Concept that I want access to that “Recover” doesn’t fit as well with:
Incorporating Rest into work and everyday life (see: Rest in Motion)
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.