Coming Home From a Trip and Hitting the Reset Button

Have you ever come back from an amazing vacation and struggled to get back into your routine? Is your suitcase still sitting there, staring at you, waiting to be unpacked? Well, consider this your sign to unpack, reset, and get back on track.

I’m finally home from my trip and ready to return to regularly scheduled programming. As fun as traveling is, there’s always that bittersweet feeling when it's over. In this episode, we’re talking about finding the balance between living our best lives while traveling and creating a life we enjoy coming home to.

Tune in this week as I share highlights from my trip, the post-vacation blues, and how I’m getting myself back into a routine after some time away. Because sometimes the best thing you can do after an adventure is come home and hit the reset button. ✈️✨

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Transcript

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Hi there. I'm your host, Corinne, and this is Okay But Are You Good? Where we check in ourselves on a weekly basis to see how we're doing. Are we living our best labs or we just trying to get by? Man, oh man, I am back. I feel more refreshed. I think it's so important to go on trips. I needed that mental break. And now I'm back. I'm ready to get back into my routine. Hit that reset button because I've been a roller coaster of emotions. You know, I just had the time of my life, and now I'm back home and reality hits. And no one really likes that, right? Like there's pros and cons to both. But I've been feeling good, more or less. And you know, it's time to get back into regular scheduled programming. So let's dive into it. So post-trip or pre-trip, let's say, there's a lot of stress because you gotta do everything to make sure the house is clean, work's covered, you got everything you need for your trip, checking it off the to-do list, and then you're on the trip, and it's so fun living out of your suitcase if you pack well. I'm still figuring out my niche with that. You do all the fun stuff, and then you come back and you're like exhausted because you've flown over multiple time zones, and then you got to get right back into it. I was in New Orleans and Florida and Texas, I was a little bit of everywhere, and it's very exciting because I crossed some uh states off my list. So slowly but surely get into my 50 states is still gonna take a long time, but all good. Fortunate I can even uh I have this opportunity to do all this stuff. But vacation Korean and like real life Korean are the same, but like different. It totally depends on the vibe. When I was in New Orleans, I felt like a different person. I just felt like I could breathe. The city's so fun, and it's so different from anywhere I've ever been. I kept trying to compare it to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, it's you can't compare it. It's its own unique city. The people are so nice. There's so much to do, and it's very walkable, in my opinion. At least, like maybe we just stayed in the boring, like touristy spots. But I liked it. And I liked like I just feel so free when I'm on vacation. But the sad part is anxiety doesn't go away. You would think, like, oh, you're out of your routine, you're with your loved ones, your friends, you're exploring. Like, anxiety shouldn't be here. Um, no, it's still very much present, and I feel like my anxiety still is at an all-time high. And I I'm working towards letting it go. It's just a different form when you're on vacation and like you're anxious about other things and you're around multiple people, and it's so hot. So, like you're I'm I'm definitely more agitated in the heat. It's just you can't get out of it. It's and it's just so humid. But with vacation, you're able to distract yourself more, you're able to just like move on to the next thing, give yourself a break. Like, at least my friends and I were cool about if we all don't want to do the same stuff, like nobody cares. So that's good. But I think I learned like I really do need to pack better and chill out a little bit more and just like not take stuff so seriously. And I and for someone who loves to travel so much, I do struggle um with food on trips because I'm vegetarian and I try to like go with the flow and like not be an inconvenience to other people, but I'm also a picky eater, so it's still kind of a recipe for disaster. And I've been vegetarian my whole life, so it's not something I can easily just like give into and just like switch my diet. If you can, great, I love that for you, but I am stuck in my ways, unfortunately. It just is what it is, and that is like a deep, like an issue I always have. Like I try and accommodate, but like sometimes I just need some of like just strict vegetarian food, and it's more than just a salad. I need like flawful, tofu, whatever protein option. So I think I still haven't figured out the niche for that, and I need to get better at that. I should have a routine by now, and I just don't. So I think that's one thing I was happier to be home is like I can have the food I want, and like it's not inconvenienced to anyone, and I'm like, good, I feel like healthy again. I digress as always. This is my brain. Sorry, not sorry. Um, aside from the food struggles, which is always a struggle for me, it was really fun. I I just I really needed this mental break. And you know, it was a bummer coming back. It always is from vacation, the post-vacation blues. And I don't know about you guys, but I'm the type of person that I will unpack the day of, like right when I get home. And like, cause I just especially when you're gone for so long, you just want to unpack, do your laundry, get situated, and like get quickly back into it, or else your suitcase and stuff is just gonna pile up and you're gonna feel so out of whack. So I always try and do it right away, and I'm still like cleaning up. Like, I have had so many people in and out of my place while I was gone. So I just need like a clean slate and just refresh. So that's kind of just what I've been working on is like getting back into routine, work wasn't so bad, and like everything's good. It's just I'm exhausted, but we're getting into it. Everything's gonna be good, and you know, I'm just looking forward to the next trip. That is what keeps me going, is just continuous travel. Because if we don't have anything to look forward to, we it leads me to be in a slump and no one wants to be in a slump, right? And I think to help not be in that slump, that's why it's so important to get back in your routine right away. Obviously, you're exhausted, so things are gonna be a little bit slower, but I'm so determined to like be living my best life and stay on a schedule. So that means like getting back into it right away. And I have been good about prioritizing sleep more lately. So that's been helping. And I knew like I have to readjust to this time zone, I have to like catch up on some Zs to avoid being sick and knock on wood. I'm still doing good. So I think I'm through the hump, like all in the clear. I just can't express like how much I needed this break. And I think it's important if you feel like you're you've been in a slump and like can't catch up. Like maybe it, this is your sign to like go take a vacation, even if it's like just a day trip, just something to reset and like take a break from normal life because it's so easy to get caught up in stuff that like doesn't really matter, but when you're in it, you can't see the other side of it. So that's why these little breaks are so important. And that's why I keep looking forward to the next one. I'm also working on a good balance of like loving my life at home, but also loving it traveling because I want to come home to a life that I like love and I look forward to. Like, I want the best of both worlds, and I'm still figuring that out. Like, I still need to make more friends here, I still need to find some activities and hobbies that work. I go in and out of my like reading routine, and then when I'm back in my reading routine, I love it so much. Even though the problem is, I think I like a lot of solo hobbies, and that's not where you're gonna make friends. So I need to work on that. But it's just I think the biggest thing is just having enough joy that like you can balance both vacation and like real life self. Like, I need to figure out how to enjoy both, and like my wallet needs to figure out how to enjoy life at home because you can't always just like fly away and escape from your problems, even though I wish it was that simple. Because I think this trip like was so necessary, but it also had me reflecting on like, okay, how do we like spruce up our routine? Like, once we're back in the flow, like, what do you have to do every day to like enjoy waking up in the morning and going to bed at night? So I think that's something I've learned from this trip of like, I need to balance spontaneity and routine and like enjoying little things and having things to look forward to. I you would think I'd have it down by now, but I shockingly do not, and it sucks. But we're working on it. I am a constant work in progress, and I'm gonna get there one day. Hopefully by the end of this year. But baby steps, we're working on our mental health, our routines, what we love, what we don't love in this life. So if you're just coming back from a travel trip, unpack your suitcase, babe. I don't care if it's been a couple days now. This is your sign, go unpack it. You'll get back into your routine, but now's the time to do it. So get your rest and also get back into it, and you'll be flowing and grooving and living your best life. And I'm happy to be back. So don't forget to ask yourself, okay, but are you good? And I'll catch you all next week. And don't forget to like and subscribe.