You know when you’ve just achieved something significant?  

You’ve completed a project or finalised something which has been taking up loads of time and TONS of your energy, that kind of thing?  Do you notice how you can crumple up like a old crisp packet once it’s over?

It’s often when you take a break for a holiday and you’ve been building up to it – that’s when you get a cold or feel ropey and that’s when we need to be extra kind to ourselves.

How do I know this acutely this week?  

Well.  Mr Jeffrey, our precious hound who had his broken heart (truly, it was broken ) fixed – came home on Sunday last weekend.

The enormous relief of knowing he was home washed over us both and my husband Snowy and I felt that exhaustion that happens after something significant is completed or finalised.

• I’ve been feeling sleepy when I’d normally be raring to go
• Tears have been close to the surface for me when it’s not normally the case
• Silly things – dropping things, falling over out of my jeans  because I simply wasn’t paying attention
• Going to bed at 8pm and sleeping from 8.30pm until 6.30am the next day…

Instead of feeling weak or lily-livered about it or apologising in any way, I absolutely know it’s because I’ve been in a state of ‘high alert’waiting for news and hoping for the best.

When this happens for you, I do really encourage you to be kind to yourself too.  To also – like I have – let others in to support you and also ask for what you want.  

More sleep, more peace, less noise << those were my go-to needs this last week.

Jeffrey however, looks at me now as if I’m Nurse Ratched from the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (as defined by Wikipedia: A cold, heartless tyrant, Nurse Ratched has become the stereotype of the nurse as a battleaxe) – he’s not allowed to run, jump, walk far nor play with the other hounds and I’m in charge of that!  Heyho…onwards!

 In other news…

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Facebook has been ‘helpfully’ reminding me how we’re normally on holiday in Barbados at this time.  Well, it’s still there and we will be.  Just not right now…