An involuntary break from CPod

I usually adopt a "fake it 'til you make it" attitude. I do the same things I used to do until it feels natural again. Good luck and welcome back!

Yeah, just take another week, get yourself sorted out and fully healed from your traumas, then you'll be ready to jump back in. Of course, during that week you can listen to all of the podcasts you've missed and the new ones that come out, but do it for pleasure, don't expect to study until your life and head are ready. It won't take long. Changing job is a bigger upheaval than we often realise, even if it's good and exciting. You don't want your studies to get messed up with that turmoil going on in your head! You'll get back to serious study when you can't bear to go another day without it. Real soon now. When you get back to it, don't try to "catch up", just cut your losses and jump back into where it's at now. After all, you've listened for pleasure to everything during the extra week, so you know all the juicy news. Well, at least it works that way for me.

...and don't forget, while you listen you can get plenty of knitting therapy! It works, honest.

LOL, knitting therapy is the best!

Glad you are back. Lots of us were away for Chinese New Year, so don't worry.

No worries, that's the beauty of ChinesePod...."It's Mandarin on your terms."

hey, that's a catchy phrase... ChinesePod should adopt it... oh.. wait.....

Thanks to everybody for the advice and the encouragement! That's one of the best things about CPod, you can always rely on the community!

Ironically the only break I've had from CPod was when I was in Shanghai.

Oh dear, I have a six month break pending. Saying that, I've been an intermittent Chinesepod user over the past couple of years, and only have been using it regularly since I've stopped being a scabby student, and what I usually find is that the content has improved every time I return, so it's all good!