Early labour is not an 'established' form of labour and can go on for some time. Your cervix is doing hard work softening, effacing and opening your cervix for the first few centimetres, so it is doing something, just sometimes it can be slow. Active labour is around 4cms, where you will get consistent contractions that do not stop, increase in intensity, duration etc. Yes it's exhausting and frustrating right now but the best thing you can do for yourself is to rest, play it down as much as you can, seek althernative therapies like acupuncture or naturopathy, and distract yourself. You have a long way to go, it's going to get more intense soon, so burning out your physical and emotional energy now wont help you. Hang in there and do what you can to wait it out.