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Hello and welcome to the therapy edit podcast with me

psych therapist Anna Martha. I love bringing bite-sized thoughts and

conversations to support your well-being in your busy lives. Behind the, we are working on bringing you a whole new series,

but in the meantime, we have delved into the archives

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Hi there, happy Monday. I have got a really kind of topical episode for you today on five ways to ease back into a

school routine or any routine.

It could be child care routine just there's something about September isn't there I don't know about

you but I find September now we're in the rhythm of kids schooling it feels like a new year. A part of me if I go back to the end of July

treaded the school holidays. I think it felt like such a long time spanning ahead that I had to fill and juggle a little bit more and I'm sure many of you relate to that where worked if you're working time to work isn't so abundant and child care logistics are a little bit more

complicated and so yeah it just felt like a lot of time ahead and now I'm at the end of it and school is returning and I feel very

keen for routine. I feel like my kids are very keen for routine. There is a heck of a lot of

bickering and winding up going on. I was singing in the car the other day,

just innocently singing. So yes, I'm keen for a teen, but at the same time we know that with the return of school routine comes a huge amount of other stuff.

The homework, the work, the logistics, the potential for kind of those curve balls of the new term illnesses that people are supposed to.

So I've got five ways to help ease back into it.

Number one is to avoid New Year, New Me mentality.

I know it's not a new year, but for me it does feel like it and I'm not alone in that.

But it's that sense that it's a new start. It's a new start and often when we approach these new starts we can so easily

go into that all or nothing you know it's a new page in the book a new a chapter. Let's do this brilliantly right from the off. I'm going to implement

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