What to do if you're tired of your program

You've been working on your program of activities for, say, weeks, or months, and you feel burnt out. Yes, you felt that your program was good for you, but you're bored, or resentful for having to work on getting better in the first place, or tired of not reaching your goals yet. So now what? 

Here are a few thoughts, some of which may work for you.

1. Accept yourself and your feelings. You're not the first or the last who feels like this, and it's okay. Feeling guilty or beating up on yourself will just make you feel worse and add to your stress. 
2. Consider taking a break from your program altogether. But rather than just letting all your work so far fizzle, make a decision in advance about the length of your break. Do you need a week? A month? Until after the holidays? Set a date in your calendar to return to your program. 
3. Consider shortening your program for a period of time. Even if it was a 10-minute-a-day program, make it shorter. One way to do it is to rotate between activities. The ones you didn't do today can be the ones you start with tomorrow. Another way to do it is to choose a few, and stick with them. My experience has been that if the activities you stick with are ones that specifically address the vestibular system, you may even make progress if this is all you do. The vestibular system supports the sense of body-in-space, and muscle tone, and visual function, and your general sense of safety in the world, as well as other parts of the nervous system. If I had to pick one system to support, this would be the one.
4. If you've been doing your activities 7 days a week, you can give yourself a break by practicing 5 days and taking two days a week off. And no, I'm not going to suggest that if you were practicing 5 days a week you bring it down to three. In this case you may as well take a complete break and rest from your program altogether.
5. If you've used other activities earlier in your program of self-help, think of those as your "tool box". If what you need is just to freshen up your daily program, return to some of the activities which you liked in the past, and take a break from those that you're tired of doing right now. 
6. Better yet, get together with your practitioner and challenge her or him to replace the activities that you don't care to continue. 

Your challenge may be different - perhaps the program you're following is not for yourself at all, but for your child or someone else you are helping. And that daily repetition can be tiring. If the person you're caring for is the one who needs the break, then all the suggestions above are relevant just the same. But if the person you're helping wishes to continue while you are the one who is burnt out, try to get help. Recruit, if possible, a family member, a roommate, a friend, a volunteer, who can come in more or less regularly and relieve you of some of your caregiving responsibilities, including, specifically, the program of activities that you're tired of following. And make a point of taking care of yourself.