Feeling stuck rarely lasts as long as it feels like it will. It just doesn’t come with a countdown.

Difficult stretches are hard to endure partly because they come with no end date. A broken leg has a timeline and you can count the weeks, whereas feeling stuck just continues, which makes the mind assume it is permanent. Looking back, these periods are nearly always shorter than they felt while they were running.

Give the current one an artificial checkpoint so it is not open-ended. Say six weeks, then review honestly. In the meantime keep one thing steady, since movement is easier to resume than to invent from a standstill.