Energy & Activity Management
Practical tools to help patients understand fluctuating capacity, plan around available energy, pace everyday activities, and recognize patterns that affect recovery.
Understanding Energy & Capacity
Patient Education Sheet
Understanding Fluctuating Capacity
Helps patients understand why their physical and cognitive capacity can change from day to day—and why plans may need to change with it.
Patient Education Sheet
Why Everyday Tasks Can Take More Energy Than Expected
Explains why seemingly simple activities may require significant physical, cognitive, or emotional energy when capacity is limited.
Patient Education Sheet
The Boom-and-Bust Cycle
Helps patients recognize patterns of overdoing followed by increased symptoms or reduced capacity and begin identifying more sustainable approaches.
Patient Education Sheet
Working With Your Energy, Not Against It
Introduces a flexible approach to planning and daily activity that responds to available energy rather than expecting consistent capacity.
Patient Education Sheet
Rest Is Part of the Plan: Building Recovery Into Daily Life
Helps patients view recovery as an intentional part of activity planning and identify practical ways to build restorative time into everyday routines.
Energy Pacing Worksheet
Know Your Limits: Personal Capacity Map
Helps patients identify their current capacity, recognize personal limits, and make more realistic decisions about activities and commitments
Energy Pacing Worksheet
My Daily Energy Budget
Helps patients identify the energy they have available and decide how to distribute it across priorities, responsibilities, and recovery needs.
Energy Pacing Worksheet
Before I Say Yes: Capacity Check
Helps patients pause before making a commitment and consider the energy, time, support, and recovery it may require.
Planning & Pacing
Activity Planning Sheet
Plan Around Your Energy: Daily Planner
Helps patients organize daily activities around available energy, essential priorities, and planned recovery.
Activity Planning Sheet
Break It Down: Small-Step Activity Planner
Helps patients break demanding or overwhelming activities into smaller, more manageable steps that can be paced over time.
Energy Pacing Worksheet
Energy vs. Effort Mapping
Helps patients compare the energy they have available with the effort different activities require so they can make more sustainable choices.
Adjusting & Recovering
Daily Tracker
Daily Energy & Capacity Tracker
Helps patients record daily energy, symptoms, activities, and capacity so changes and patterns are easier to recognize.
Daily Tracker
Activity & Recovery Tracker
Helps patients compare activity demands with recovery time and notice how different activities affect their available capacity.
Daily Tracker
Patterns & Triggers Tracker
Helps patients identify recurring patterns, demands, and triggers that may affect symptoms, energy, and recovery.