🧠 One idea to sit with
Burnout has become the default “diagnosis” for high-performers who feel off.
But burnout implies you need more rest: sleep more, have a relaxing weekend, and come back ready to go.
Misalignment is different.
Misalignment means you've been climbing a ladder – working hard, hitting goals, showing up – and one day you look up and realize it's leaning against the wrong building.
The exhaustion isn't just from doing too much. It's from doing things that don't belong to you anymore. And rest can’t fix that.
You need clarity. Which only happens when you create the conditions for it to arrive – conditions that aren’t met in the normal, busy modern life.
The good news is that the conditions aren’t difficult to meet:
Stillness
Silence
Solitude
A different environment.
✍️ One practice to try
1️⃣ Write down your top 3 most important action items for this week.
2️⃣ Next to each one, write down who really set this priority for you.
Was it you? Was it an expectation you inherited?
You don’t need to change anything, just notice.
❓One question to carry
Am I tired from doing too much, or from doing things that no longer feel like mine?
📝 One quote to remember
"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."
📷 One real moment from our own week
Each week, we’ll close with something personal from our lives.
No filter. No fluff. Just a reminder that we’re walking this path right alongside you.
Kyle & Eli’s Moment:
We set up a small display for our book, The Art of the Solo Retreat, at a café in Bend this week. And the conversations that followed reminded us why we do this.
We built this without demand. No one was asking for a Solo Retreat or a book about it. We just knew how much this structured solitude transformed each of our own lives.
Hearing "this is just what I need right now" from a stranger makes that leap feel worth it.
That's the whole point of the Solo Retreat, really: More decisions made from inner conviction, and less from external demands.
Imagine what that world looks like.
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-Kyle and Eli
The Weekly Reset is a newsletter that goes out each Sunday. Each edition is simple by design. Just one clear idea, a practice to try, a reflection to sit with, and a glimpse into what we’re learning behind the scenes. It is written by Kyle Nelson and Eli Libby, Co-Founders of The Solo Retreat Company.
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