As you know, I lost everything too, and it took us about 5 years to recover from that as well. I have no shame admitting that for a long time I had to cash out a lot or everything even in my first year due to debts hunting us. I worked damn hard for those rewards though, I was VERY committed and I have no shame for those times I did it.
You, my friend, are adding value every day, and therefore you should never feel bothered to power down a bit when this is what your family needs. You aren't even speaking about a full power-down but just a few weeks. But even so, I know that you will get back into BUILD mode quickly even when you have to take out more than these few weeks.
Personally, I can't imagine starting a Hive power-down now as I have never been able to make it to dolphin hood and that's really my focus now, especially now I had the feeling of how it feels to be one of the top stakeholders in Listnerds.
But if there was ever the need to do so, I'd feel no shame for it, you know very well that you add value and are trying to make Hive better by doing so, therefore you are excused lol. Those are my two cents :)
!CTP