If you want to remain functional during lengthy and stressful life events, it is critical to understand your capacity, prioritize the tasks ahead, seek skilled collaborators/contractors, and forgive yourself for the things you simply cannot do.

When a life-crisis turns into an extended campaign, it is essential to know how to prevent yourself from burning out. Burning beyond that level must be reserved for true emergencies, where the goal is to bring things back into a new balance.

If you're operating beyond your capacity for too long, the endeavor will begin to stumble. That's what the article was trying to help the reader avoid.

Well this seems like a useful attitude to have.

Some people probably can’t escape their workload with better time management. Fair! Some people certainly can though (I know many such cases), rendering your comment a little ridiculous, and extremely rude.

Note for future empathy exercises: most people encounter difficulties in their lives.

This is spoken like someone who has faced too many lengthy events like this, and doesn't enjoy thinking there may have been a way around some of them.