Real growth includes ugly crying, deleted drafts and the same hoodie three days in a row.

The presentable version of change leaves out almost all of it. What gets shown is the before and the after, not the week of starting over, the drafts nobody read, the days where getting dressed properly was not going to happen. Those days are not the interruption. They are most of the material.

Do not read a rough stretch as proof that nothing is happening. Keep the one small thing you can do while flattened, whatever it is for you. Progress made on bad days counts exactly the same as progress made on good ones.