The real reason behind why you feel like you need another holiday after a holiday - The Educator

“Holding out for holidays to recover? Well, not all holidays are created equal. Some holidays are more restorative than others. In fact, what research tells us is that our holidays aren’t as restorative as they used to be.

I’m sure you’ve heard people come back from leave and say things like “I’ve been back a week and I feel like I’ve never had a holiday”. In the research I came across, what a lot of people said was that when they went on holidays it took them a week for their brain to slow down. They had three good days of relaxation and then they started to worry about going back to work again. Because of this, I started to look at what research was out there around the topic of what makes a restorative holiday. There was not a lot of data surprisingly, but here is what we know.”