Back to daily life after your holiday

Everyone knows that feeling of the last day of your holiday when you want to enjoy your free time, but you’re thinking more and more about your normal life and all the stress that goes with it.

Staying relaxed as you get home
It’s ideal if you can plan the journey so that you have one calm day at home before returning to work. Then you can calmly unpack, go food shopping and do the things that would add to your stress if you were back at work. When you’ve sorted things at home, you can calmly enjoy a few last hours of holiday. Maybe have a bath with Sparitual bath salts and enjoy the oceanic care experience of sea salt crystals. While you’re in the bath, listen to your favourite holiday music, close your eyes and you’ll feel like you’re in the sea again. 

Bringing your holiday back with you 
Hold onto the holiday feeling for as long as possible: Put your favourite holiday photo by the bathroom mirror to cheer yourself up in the morning, have an Italian lunch to distract you from work stress and go for a relaxing walk in your light holiday outfit after work. That will ease you gently back into daily life.

Plan your first day at work cleverly
One clever trick is to return to work not on a Monday, but on Wednesday or Thursday. So you only have half a week to work and can look forward to the weekend soon.

Plan your next trip
Day dreaming makes dreary days brighter When you return to work, if you can already start crossing off the days on the calender till your next trip, then you can get planning. Anticipation is of course the greatest pleasure. Hang up a world map at home and put green pins in the places you’ve visited and red pins for places you want to go. Perhaps put your next holiday destination as your screen image, so that the anticipation builds every time you’re at your computer.

Rethink your holiday habits
It you’re racing from one meeting to the next at work and visiting ten towns in seven days when you’re on holiday you’re not going to come back feeling relaxed. So think about how stress-free your holiday should be. If you really want to see lots, plan to have at least the first and last days as relaxing days, as that’s the only way you can absorb the impressions of your trip. 

Back to normal life, stress-free 
You should also create occasional oases of relaxation in your daily life. Plan wellness afternoons and weekends when you can treat yourself to massages, pedicures and sauna visits with your friends. That way you’ll stay stress-free.