I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello hello. How are you doing?

It is half term here, so my daughters have been off all week,

plus my youngest has shingles, she's at the tail end of it now thankfully and fingers crossed is going back to school in a couple of days but she's been off school for just over a couple of weeks.

So it has been sort of one of those times where best laid plans and all that they all sort of go out the window when got something unexpected like that.

And what I've really paid attention to actually over the last couple of weeks is my bandwidth

because it can be so tempting in those situations to still try to go on as normal and try to fit everything in and that's just not possible.

So for instance this week, while both of my daughters have been off, my husband has had to be

away for work. He's been in Sweden and the kids have had to be away for work he's been in Sweden and the kids have had different things to

to do each day you know different arrangements with friends we haven't gone overboard but it is still it still feels like a lot you

know juggling at all and do you know what I've done I have been in bed any time

between 20 past 7 and 10 past 9 in the evening. I'm not necessarily going to sleep

straight away. I've actually tended to be asleep by sort of 930 945 p.m. but it has just been

for me to unwind, to read, to journal, to watch a bit of telly,

listen to an audiobook or a podcast, just to chill and reboot. And I talked about bandwidth in episode 100, which is one of the most popular

episodes of the show. And it's just about understanding that we only have so much time, energy and efforts,

and this impacts on our emotions. Our bandwidth represents the capacity that we have

to be do and have the things that we want and so that capacity is our emotional

mental physical and spiritual bandwidth and everybody's is personal how How we use our time, how we use our energy and

efforts impacts on how we feel. And of course the more things we try to pack in is

the less time and energy and effort that we have.

And it's been interesting to pay attention to my bandwidth over this past couple of weeks,

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