How to Reduce the Mental Stress of Not Doing a Workout

Life happens and there's day to day stressors so when that athlete is scheduled to do a workout a hard session but everything tells you that they're not ready for it. So what is your typical rule of thumb is it better for them to do a reduced version of that hard workout or do you say nope we just go easy today or do you give them a rest day? I'm going to stop by saying what you research guys says so you're scientist it depends it depends on it yeah yeah yeah but it really does.