10 "Extra" Wellness Habits I Do After Every Trip (No Apologies)

48 hours to feeling human again.

I used to think jet lag was the reason I’d come home from a trip and spend the next week eating takeout, skipping workouts, and feeling like a shell of myself. As it turns out, jet lag wasn’t really the problem or, at least, not the bulk of it. The real problem was that I had zero system for coming home. I’d just free-fall back into regular life and hope my body figured it out on its own.

That doesn’t really fly anymore (not that it did very well before). Especially not in my 40s, and especially not with how much I travel now.

This is the difference between feeling like myself again within 48 hours versus an exhausted, bloated, cranky week, so I don’t care how it sounds.

So over time, I’ve built an actual back home routine. Some of it miggggght be a little extra, I’m not going to pretend otherwise. But this is the difference between feeling like myself again within 48 hours versus an exhausted, bloated, cranky week, so I don’t care how it sounds.

Here are the 10 things I do every single time I get home, and yes, I do all 10, every time.