How do I actually recover from burnout when things never slow down?

You know you need to recover, but you have never made an actual plan, because some part of you keeps expecting recovery to happen on its own once things ease up. They have not eased up. And if you are honest, there is no real sign they are going to. The quiet week you are waiting for is not coming to rescue you. That is the hard, freeing truth: recovery will not arrive by itself. It is not a thing that happens to you when conditions finally allow; it is a thing you decide to do inside conditions that never will. Waiting for the slowdown is really a way of postponing the choice, and meanwhile the depletion just deepens. Nothing changes until you stop waiting and start planning. So make the plan small and real, today. Not a someday overhaul, but one concrete thing this week: an evening protected, a task set down, a full night of sleep defended like it matters. Put it on the calendar as if it were a meeting you cannot miss. Recovery built one deliberate piece at a time, in the middle of a busy life, is the only kind that will actually reach you.