Do you ever feel anxious about taking time off? Sometimes I have even more work to go back to that I need to catch up on!

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I'm come to accept that being anxious about taking time off is just part of my life. It can get difficult to plan vacations or time with my family and all that. But I will say it's better than the alternative, I've spent time scrambling for work so when I seem to have too much to do I'm honestly grateful to have that problem.

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Yeah it’s still good to get the time off regardless, would be lovely if you didn’t have to worry about it at all though.

I always get anxious about it- I feel bad asking for the holiday and appointments! But you do need to live your life!

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You do! You can’t live just for work you gotta go out and do your own thing!

Absolutely, I feel the same way. I love having a break but that looming pile of work waiting after can be so stressful. I’m trying to remind myself that rest actually helps me tackle it better when I’m back.

It definitely does, without that break in the first place you’d probably get overwhelmed quicker.

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