Comments on: Help! I have a ‘Syndrome’… https://www.indulgedivulge.com/help-i-have-a-syndrome/ At work, at play, in between...living life with style and gratitude Sun, 27 Mar 2016 02:28:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Jane https://www.indulgedivulge.com/help-i-have-a-syndrome/#comment-2546 Fri, 29 Nov 2013 11:06:54 +0000 https://www.indulgedivulge.com/?p=8265#comment-2546 In reply to Penny Howard.

Hi there Penny, just found your wonderful and ever so comforting messages sitting in the spam box. Thank you soooo much for the heads up and reassurance. Can’t tell you how much it cheered me up to know you too and others have experienced the same. I am going to take your advice and book my next trip. This one will be to Phuket or Greece. My Mum is getting frail and so it will be shorter duration but still gets me away. Wanderlust! Expensive but oh so worth it. Yes I did find myself in so many ways and I think this will make for great reading on blog and in book too

]]> By: Indulge Divulge https://www.indulgedivulge.com/help-i-have-a-syndrome/#comment-2501 Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:28:45 +0000 https://www.indulgedivulge.com/?p=8265#comment-2501 Thanks guys for liking this post! All ideas, recommendations, nagging welcome! X

]]> By: Penny Howard https://www.indulgedivulge.com/help-i-have-a-syndrome/#comment-2492 Mon, 25 Nov 2013 00:26:21 +0000 https://www.indulgedivulge.com/?p=8265#comment-2492 Hi Jane – I wrote an incredibly long response to this on my Blackberry but it seems to have got lost in the ether somewhere- maybe I replied to you direct?
Anyway I can obviously relate to how you are feeling and your company are so right to give you different things to do..as you know I still haven’t recovered from the impact my sabbatical had on me so I cant offer an easy solution but one thing that my friend Ann – whom I met on her three month sabbatical studying Italian and also from Australia – has done is
To set up an expectation – and a date – and buy tickets well in advance – so she can get back to Florence the following year. This takes away some of the nostalgia and gives her something to look forward to. I appreciate it is much easier for me being only a two hours hop away but I am also happier when I have the next ticket booked – a syndrome isn’t that easy to escape from!
For the immediate future – I was very lucky that I came back from Florence to an enormous project so I had little time to feel homesick (home being where the heart is) so I would try and find something meaty to keep you busy until your next trip!
Best of luck and I really do understand how you are feeling – and leaving work aside, whilst away from routine you have probably found a part of yourself you had been burying whilst busy and found that you actually ” like ” that part of you ..if so… don’t let it go again .. it might come in useful later!
with love Penny

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