Some comebacks don’t have a crowd. You just quietly start winning again.

Recovery is mostly unwitnessed. There is no moment where the room turns around, no announcement, nobody keeping track of the week you stopped sliding and started climbing. That silence can make real progress feel unreal, as though it does not count until someone confirms it.

Decide in advance what a good week looks like for you, in terms plain enough that you can check it yourself. Did the thing get done. Did you keep the promise. Let that be the verdict, and let the absence of applause mean nothing at all.