This is episode 39 of the Baggage Reclaim sessions.

I'm your host Natalie Lou, author of Baggage reclaimed.com

where I help people to offload the shady relationships and emotional baggage

that block healthy self-esteem and loving relationships.

This week I am bringing the podcast to you from Amsterdam where I am visiting my brother and this

week I talk about graduation goggles and how to know if you

might be a little bit in love with being in love.

We're over in Amsterdam for about 10 days where I visit my brother every summer with the girls and then my husband and comes out and joins us.

And this time is really important to me.

It's an opportunity to spend time with my brother.

My daughters absolutely adore him.

But it's also a really good opportunity for rest.

For some reason, once I am in an entirely different place I get to just download.

We arrived on the 1st of August and on the second by the evening I was just shattered I had to get into

bed at the equivalent of about 8 o'clock at home I was shattered what I want to

talk about really in this first part of the show is about the importance of taking time off.

In episode 38, I mentioned at the end in the what I learned this week about unexpected opportunities for relaxation.

But we also actually have time built into our lives.

For instance if we are employed then we have a certain amount of

holidays to take. Even if we are self-employed, we can, if we allow ourselves to, we

can factor in time for us to take off. Now me I'm self-employed and I have

been for about eight and a half years. What I realized a couple of years into it is that

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