Chrysalis feels suspended between two states. It holds the calm patience of something that has retreated inward, the way a caterpillar folds itself into stillness before transformation begins.
One of the most painful parts of burnout is the loss of what we might call care capacity. You may still care in theory, but your energy to act on that care feels gone.
Most people think of the color wheel as something artists use. A diagram in a textbook. A classroom exercise. But if you look at it more closely, it begins to resemble something else entirely.