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Summer guilt: what if you could free yourself from it?

    Accueil > MINDSET > Advice

    Summer is here, and with it the promise of relaxation. Yet behind the sunsets and long aperitifs, a tension persists: the need to enjoy life at all costs. It’s an invisible but very real pressure that weighs down even the slightest moment of rest. It’s called summer guilt.

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    culpabilité estivale summer guilt kodd magazine médias

    Just when you think you’re feeling light-hearted on a beach or in a hammock, many of us feel a strange sensation. The fear of not ‘doing enough’. Not enough trips, not enough activities, not enough memories to tell in September. This summer guilt creeps into people’s minds and sometimes transforms the season of rest into a new mental burden.

    Summer under invisible pressure

    The summer period is often idealised: time suspended, new-found freedom, a well-earned break. But behind this picture-postcard image lies a paradox. Supposed to be synonymous with slowing down, summer sometimes becomes a source of anxiety. We put ourselves under pressure to organise the perfect holiday, keep the children occupied, be sociable, explore, optimise.

    This phenomenon particularly affects women, who often carry the mental burden of the family, including on holiday. They orchestrate departures, think about picnics, suitcases, bookings… and feel guilty if, in the midst of it all, they fail to savour the moment. Relaxation becomes a goal to be achieved and idleness an almost moral fault.

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    culpabilité estivale summer guilt détente relaxation kodd magazine médias

    Allow yourself to slow down

    Faced with this summer guilt, it’s essential to deconstruct the idea that every moment must be made profitable. Free time is not about performance. Learning to slow down also means learning to exist in a different way, to listen to yourself. A nap in the shade, a book abandoned halfway through, a day without a programme. These are not failures, but breaths of fresh air.

    Doing less doesn’t mean missing out, it means honouring a deep need for rest. And this rest, far from being laziness, is an act of resistance in a society that values hyperactivity.

    Reinventing your summer to suit you

    The key to overcoming summer guilt may lie in a form of gentle disobedience. Like refusing comparisons, overloaded schedules and Instagrammable injunctions. Summer doesn’t have to be spectacular to be successful. It can be modest, quiet, local and yet deeply nourishing.

    Refocusing on what you really want, rather than what you think you should be doing, helps to rebalance the season. Less to-do, more instinct. Less perfection, more slowness. Because doing less isn’t about giving up, it’s about choosing. And in that choice lies a precious freedom that is all too often forgotten.

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