Social Workers should work on taking a break
Just back from my holidays in St Lucia, and I did not touch a computer in 8 days! It was hard not to go into the hotel Internet room but I was good and resisted. I really fully appreciated my holiday and stayed present to the restful time on the beach, swimming and horse riding.
The process of unwinding takes place well before you reach your destination. If you have a highly stressful job, large amounts of responsibility or heavy workload you may be tempted through what you believe to be necessity to work up until the last minute or even work while you are on your break. Some people continue to work even if they are at home on sick leave. This defeats the purpose of the break or recuperation, but people feel they have less anxiety if they continue to work while away.
So a plan for preparing to go on holiday is what is needed. It worked for me.
Please let me know what works for you.
Gradle
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Comment from social-europe
Time May 24, 2009 at 7:09 pm
hi
St. Lucia sounds good…but only one week? One week is very, very short for a really good break. Minimume are 3 weeks!
3 weeks holidays works for me!