You may have been counting down to summer all year, telling yourself that you just need to survive until your next holiday. You may have been looking forward to taking a pause and getting a chance to finally breathe.
But when you get to your holiday, instead of feeling rested, you feel more exhausted, more overwhelmed, and more behind. And somewhere underneath the busyness, you might be thinking: what’s wrong with me? Everyone else seems fine.
Nothing is wrong with you – you just fell into the summer Urgency Trap – one of the seven Overwhelm Amplifiers that keep high achievers stuck in the Responsibility Trap.
In this episode, we break down exactly why summer increases pressure instead of relieving it, why you end up covering everyone else’s work while your own recovery gets sacrificed, and the one practical shift that changes everything: time-blocking your rest as if it were as important as your most urgent patient or client.
