Aug 4, 2026 · 21 min · 11 segments
Just me this week for a solo episode. I'm chatting about my goals for the rest of 2026, the struggle of getting back into routine after time away, and what I'm doing to cope with feelings of…
Jessica CookeHost
We did it in 2022 and 2023, and mentally I felt so bad in 2023, in the summer then, so burnt out that I thought to myself, "Never again." I just went over to Spain for that month with the kiddos and with my work, and the way I do it over there is I work for a week, take a break, work for another week, take a break, and then I'm home.
It just won't work out anymore." But, you know, we said we'd give it a go another time because we had such a good time in 2022 and it was so fabulous that we said we'd do it again this year, and it ended up being the best thing ever.
I got diagnosed with Crohn's disease this year, so I've spent parts of this year feeling really, really sick.
The infusions are working, and I was getting better and getting my infusions around the time that I was due to go away for this month.
It was kinda touch and go for a while, but then I was able to go, and I went thinking I wasn't gonna have a good time, and I kept on saying to myself and to Joe, "We'll go, and if it's not great, we'll change our flights, and we'll come home." So I kept on thinking that to myself, that I can come home early if I want to.
I know I was sick as well, so my world did get smaller, but I just realized when I was over there how much I needed to break the mundane routine of [laughs] doing the same things day in, day out, day in, day out, and it was so fantastic over there.
I got completely out of the comfort zone, mixed up the routine, went canyoning, kayaking, um, did so much fun stuff, so much outdoorsy things that was just absolutely fabulous.
We did it in 2022 and 2023, and mentally I felt so bad in 2023, in the summer then, so burnt out that I thought to myself, "Never again." I just went over to Spain for that month with the kiddos and with my work, and the way I do it over there is I work for a week, take a break, work for another week, take a break, and then I'm home.
It just won't work out anymore." But, you know, we said we'd give it a go another time because we had such a good time in 2022 and it was so fabulous that we said we'd do it again this year, and it ended up being the best thing ever.
I got diagnosed with Crohn's disease this year, so I've spent parts of this year feeling really, really sick.
The infusions are working, and I was getting better and getting my infusions around the time that I was due to go away for this month.
It was kinda touch and go for a while, but then I was able to go, and I went thinking I wasn't gonna have a good time, and I kept on saying to myself and to Joe, "We'll go, and if it's not great, we'll change our flights, and we'll come home." So I kept on thinking that to myself, that I can come home early if I want to.
I know I was sick as well, so my world did get smaller, but I just realized when I was over there how much I needed to break the mundane routine of [laughs] doing the same things day in, day out, day in, day out, and it was so fantastic over there.
I got completely out of the comfort zone, mixed up the routine, went canyoning, kayaking, um, did so much fun stuff, so much outdoorsy things that was just absolutely fabulous.
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