Beat a retreat
From colouring in and playing with toys to poetry and yoga, Jayne Morris’s Rebalancing Retreats at Lucknam Park aims to restore a little balance to busy lives. April Hutchinson takes a three-day break to rediscover her inner self
author: April Hutchinson
There’s a certain sense of irony in writing a feature about a rebalancing retreat at 1am. But here I am. Leaving everything to the last minute and bemoaning how much I have to do. Sometimes without thinking, we
wear our tiredness and “so busy” sighs as a badge of honour – look at us, so much going on. But in today’s over-connected world, there really is just too much going on. And women of my age particularly are starting to feel the strain. Figures published by the Health and Safety Executive show that women aged between 35 and 44 in Britain are 67% more likely to suffer work-related stress than men of the same age. And the work-stress rate for these women has jumped 18% in the past four years. Many people are juggling hectic jobs, digital overload, children and ageing parents – and could be on the path to “burnout”, a total collapse. Jayne Morris claims to know
the solution – and it involves toys. And colouring in. And drawing. And poetry. None of which the average adult – well, me at any rate – gets involved with in any sizable way, but actually, all have their merits. Morris is an expert in “burnout” a modern phenomenon suffered by those who simply take on too much and push themselves into collapse, something she endured personally when she was knocked out by it for six months. While recovering, she took it as an opportunity to see why it had happened and has since qualified in business and personal
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coaching and in Integrative Art Psychotherapy. She is resident life coach expert for NHS Online Health Sector and, last year, published Burnout to Brilliance. She says we’re increasingly
overwhelmed by the “busy-ness” of everyday life, making it easy to feel disconnected from our “innate happiness, brilliance and love” which can result in depletion or burnout. The idea behind her book was to help identify the signs of burnout, help people recover their energy and enthusiasm, regain their “power, passion and purpose” and develop long-term strategies for success. And now all that has been bundled up in her Rebalancing Retreats at Lucknam Park, the honey-coloured 42-room Cotswolds country house hotel where I met her for the three-day escape, designed to help you on a
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