“after holding space for someone's really deep relationship struggles it doesn't serve me and it doesn't serve my clients to go back to back into the next session so I keep space in my calendar”

Leave buffer in the calendar between intense sessions

Stacking emotionally heavy work back-to-back degrades quality for everyone downstream. A solo founder doing sales calls, support tickets, or deep code work benefits from the same rule — book deliberate buffer after intense sessions so the next block gets a fresh nervous system, not a depleted one.