This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success

Podcast.

And that bit of dreaminess is Yola Tango with Beach Party Tonight from their album Summer Sun,

which I thought was appropriate for our topic today because we're talking about how to do vacations right. It is one thing to take time off work,

take a trip, but to come home feeling restored, rejuvenated, like you know yourself better,

having a better relationship, is another skill set entirely.

And that's where we're going today.

I'm going to be talking about the vacation mindset, how to cultivate it,

how to set boundaries around the rest of your life so that you can be present while you

are vacationing and some specific things to do so that you don't come home feeling

like an exhausted, overwhelmed wreck who now has a huge mess to clean up because you've taken time

off. I know we've all been there and I don't want that to be your fate this summer. So that is

where we're going today on the podcast. I should probably introduce myself properly. I'm thinking

I haven't done that in a little while. So if this is your first time listening to this show,

welcome. I'm so glad that you found me and that you found this. Let's see. This podcast is all

about helping you basically have a better life. I specialize in this sort of thing because I am a

therapist and a coach. My background is that I'm trained as a marriage and family therapist,

also trained as a psychologist, and I'm a board certified life coach. So I like to tell people

that I specialize in love happiness and success. I am the founder and current clinical director of growing self-counseling

and coaching. We are based out of Denver, Colorado, but at this point, I feel like that's almost

irrelevant because we work with so many people all over the world, honestly, through online

video conferencing. But we are based in Denver. And I started doing this podcast a while

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