Designing Guest Suites for Holiday Company
Learn how to create a welcoming, safe space for loved ones and manage your own well-being at the same time this holiday season.
This should be a happier, healthier, more celebratory holiday season than last year?s! People are freer to travel and potentially safer in doing so. Families and friends will enjoy reunions in each other?s homes. That?s great news, right"
Yes, but? All of this gaiety can also mean labor, expense, friction, and stress on the host?s part. Particularly right now, since we still do have a dangerous virus circulating. ?The addition of COVID gives us more to consider as hosts and the additional decision-making can make things more stressful,? cautions burnout recovery coach Dr. Kate Steiner. Have and share a plan to address your needs, local laws, and everyone?s expectations before your guests arrive, she recommends. Reduce the stress of hosting by setting aside ?me time? and private space. \ Photo courtesy of Designer: Ana Cummings, DDA, IDC, CAPS \ Photographer: Steve Dutchesen // Wellness by Design (Tiller Press, 2020, © J. Gold)
Pandemic Hosting Preparations
You can create a welcoming, safe space for loved ones and manage your own well-being at the same time. ?Part of what makes hosting stressful is the belief that we have to constantly be available for our guests,? Steiner shares. ?Instead, maybe you deem mornings as host-free, you have coffee and breakfast items available, and everyone wakes on their schedule with no set agenda.? Th...
This should be a happier, healthier, more celebratory holiday season than last year?s! People are freer to travel and potentially safer in doing so. Families and friends will enjoy reunions in each other?s homes. That?s great news, right"
Yes, but? All of this gaiety can also mean labor, expense, friction, and stress on the host?s part. Particularly right now, since we still do have a dangerous virus circulating. ?The addition of COVID gives us more to consider as hosts and the additional decision-making can make things more stressful,? cautions burnout recovery coach Dr. Kate Steiner. Have and share a plan to address your needs, local laws, and everyone?s expectations before your guests arrive, she recommends. Reduce the stress of hosting by setting aside ?me time? and private space. \ Photo courtesy of Designer: Ana Cummings, DDA, IDC, CAPS \ Photographer: Steve Dutchesen // Wellness by Design (Tiller Press, 2020, © J. Gold)
Pandemic Hosting Preparations
You can create a welcoming, safe space for loved ones and manage your own well-being at the same time. ?Part of what makes hosting stressful is the belief that we have to constantly be available for our guests,? Steiner shares. ?Instead, maybe you deem mornings as host-free, you have coffee and breakfast items available, and everyone wakes on their schedule with no set agenda.? Th...
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