Our Approach
The 50% rule
Resilience isn’t about spending every drop of energy you have; it’s about what you leave in the tank.
The logic: if you feel you have the energy to do 10 tasks, do 5.
The result: the remaining 50% is your “maintenance reserve”. It is used by your body to dampen nerve inflammation and prevent a systemic crash.
Respecting the 48-hour echo
In this system, cause and effect are disconnected. A surge of activity on Monday often creates a “silent debt” that isn’t called in up to 48 hours afterwards. Specialists refer to this as post-exertional malaise or PEM.
The logic: don’t judge your capacity based on how you feel right now. Judge it based on what you did up to two days ago.
The result: By tracking the echo, you stop being blindsided by crashes and start predicting them.
Aggressive stillness (The hard reset)
The logic: when the pain increases or the fibro “fog” descends, the system is overheating.
The result: taking a hard reset (horizontal rest, zero sensory input) isn’t a retreat; it’s a cooling cycle. It is the most productive thing you can do for the system.
Rest is not doing nothing. In the aevum system, rest is a high-priority maintenance task.
Progress as stability
We do not measure success by “doing more”. We measure success by stability.
The goal: reducing the frequency and depth of crashes
The metric: a month with a steady yellow baseline is a greater victory than a week of green followed by a fortnight of red
Explore our Planners
The foundation
Most planners were built for people who just need to get organised. This one was built for people whose body doesn't follow a schedule.
If you're living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME), Fibromyalgia, POTS, or another energy-limiting condition, you already know that pushing through doesn't work. The Aevum Pacing Planner is built on a different principle entirely — Load Management. Not doing more. Doing the right amount, at the right time, in a way your body can actually sustain.
This 60-day planner is where that work begins. It helps you stop guessing and start understanding — mapping your personal baseline, identifying hidden patterns in your symptoms, and building a system that works around your real capacity, not an imaginary one.
What's inside:
The 50% Rule & 48-Hour Echo — Calculate your maintenance reserve and track the delayed crashes (Post-Exertional Malaise) that don't show up until the day after
Baseline Mapping — Define your Green (Steady), Yellow (Caution), and Red (Flare) states so you always know where you are and what that means for your day
The Analytics Lab — Correlate activity with nerve pain and identify environmental triggers like weather and stress before they become setbacks
Hard Reset Protocol — Pre-planned instructions for when your system fails, so you're not making decisions in the middle of a crash
Archive & Resources — Includes a Low Energy Menu of no-cook meals and low-effort activities for your hardest days
The next step
You've done the hard work of mapping your baseline. Now it's about protecting it.
This 90-day planner picks up where the 60-day left off — built for people living with conditions like Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME), Fibromyalgia, or POTS who are ready to move from understanding their limits to working sustainably within them.
Where the first planner helped you find your baseline, this one helps you hold it. The pages are condensed and focused, because you're not starting from scratch — you're maintaining progress that took real effort to build.
What's inside:
The 50% Rule & 48-Hour Echo — Calculate your maintenance reserve and track the delayed crashes (Post-Exertional Malaise) that standard planners never account for
The Analytics Lab — Correlate activity with nerve pain, and identify environmental triggers like weather and stress before they derail you
Hard Reset Protocol — Pre-planned, clear instructions for when your system needs a full reset, so you're never making decisions in a crash
Built on the principle of Load Management — because the goal was never to push through. It was always to keep going.