Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, a weekly podcast where we help you with the ups and downs and the ins and outs of your world of work. And hopefully share with you some ideas for action, some tools and maybe a few techniques so that you can have a little bit more confidence and control of whatever

might be going on for you right now. And if you'd like a little bit of support beyond just what

you listen to today, don't forget that you can download our Squiggly Careers Podsheets. All the

links for those are in the show notes, but they are summaries of some of the coach yourself

questions, some of the ideas for action. So you can just, you know, listen and relax and learn. And then you can take action by downloading the pod sheet afterwards.

So as always, we use the podcast to help ourselves and hopefully to help everyone else as well.

And today we're talking about how to avoid a holiday hangover. So you can probably tell

that we're recording this in July and we've both got a

holiday coming up, which is very front of mind for both of us. And what's interesting, I think,

about holidays is what neither of us are thinking about is the holiday or how excited we are

about the fact that we're going on holiday. We're both really frantically thinking about

what needs to get done beforehand, worried about what's

going to happen when we're not around. And we were like, that feels like the exact opposite

of the relationship you should have with your holidays, where you almost get to the point

of thinking, is it even worth it? You know, is it even worth going because of all the, I think,

the stress and the pressure that sometimes can happen in the build-up to your holiday and almost

the fear of returning. You know, the fear of the first day opening the inbox? Someone described

that to me recently of like how nervous they were, just like re-clicking on their emails after they

came back from a holiday. So we were like, let's press pause and talk about, first of all

bit about why holidays do matter so much

in all careers, but in squiggly careers in particular. And then how we can set ourselves up for

success and sort of almost come back, reinvigorated and then kind of refine our flow when we're

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