Why You Should Enjoy a Solo Break in the New Forest
Imagine getting away for a weekend to a beautiful Hampshire hotel for essential relaxation without compromise. Simply time to refocus and a chance to replenish energy and self-confidence.
It’s not selfish, it’s self-care; sometimes you need to listen to your body and mind when they’re telling you to stop, slow down and recharge – even if that means going it alone.
Going on a solo break for a weekend away can be the empowering, rejuvenating mental and physical health boost you need. And when you incorporate more self-care into your life, you’ll be amazed how it impacts your work, relationships and social life.
Essential relaxation
Busy lives and work schedules can mean you never really get a chance to actually switch off. Maybe you escape for the odd bath but that comes to an end early because the kids need you or you have a busy day to prepare for. Perhaps you find some time to slow down a little on your family holiday but it’s not quite the rest you had hoped for.
Relaxation, rest… these aren’t luxuries, they’re essential to recovery and fortifying mental and physical health. When you’re on a solo break you can turn off the daily alarm, sleep, restore and find deep relaxation.
Discover our Ultimate Sen Sleep Spa Break – restoring calm and balance by incorporating hydrotherapy and traditional Ayuverdic techniques into your break to promote restful sleep, relieve stress and clear the mind.
Self-care
The often-neglected aspect of life. Your relationship with yourself is just as important as your relationship with friends and family and it needs to be nurtured too.
Self-care is about self-compassion, being kind to yourself and understanding your needs. Doing what you need to do in order to feel equipped to handle all that life throws at you. Enjoying a weekend by yourself can be extremely rewarding, removing the need to compromise and allowing you to recharge on your terms, in the way you feel you need.
If you dream of simply spending your New Forest break sleeping, lying in and reading, you can. If you want to book a day of treatments in our spa, SenSpa, go for it. Or maybe you’re looking forward to mornings walking (or running) through the New Forest, then lunch in Le Blaireau and dinner in the Zen Garden – two of our three hotel restaurants. Do what you want, when you want.
Self-reflection
It can be important to give time to evaluating life; meditating on your goals and values, gaining valuable insight to your thoughts, feelings and emotions at a given time, but often you need to be in the right environment and state of mind for it to be most effective.
Taking time out, away from home to encourage these sessions can bring clarity, perspective and boost creativity. And they pair well with a digital detox, inviting you to escape the screens and instead pick up pen and paper, perhaps journaling your weekend and inviting a calm and tranquil mindset to set new goals and feel empowered and motivated to reach them.
Empowering and liberating
Perhaps going by yourself wasn’t the initial plan but with everyone’s busy schedules you just can’t make a date work. You’ll need to fly solo because you need a break. Don’t fear, it can be intimidating heading into new experiences on your own, but the more you do it, the more you’ll feel empowered and capable. You’ll feel proud that you stepped out of your comfort zone and into a new experience.
A solo break away can nurture confidence, independence and self-reliance; you haven’t got another person to lean on or make any of the decisions, which can be liberating – to know you relied only on yourself.
Independence and a cultivated sense of self and identity can help to strengthen and maintain your relationships, bringing balance and a fulfilling connection to a partnership.
Digital detox
Life can be a barrage of input and stimulation, of both positive and negative influences. When you put down the phone, close the laptop and step back from the buzz of everyday life and instant access to news, emails, social media, it invites perspective, helps you to refocus and reconnect with feeling.
On the Digital Detox Break you are encouraged to create space between you and your tech and re-establish your connection with nature and self.
Mental health boost
Even a short New Forest break away by yourself can boost your mental health; bringing together all of the above to empower, liberate and harness vital self-care to bolster and support your mental wellbeing and ease anxiety and decrease stress.
Spending time in nature, cultivating self-love and acknowledging the need for time and space to feel renewed has to be good for all areas of life, doesn’t it? Don’t let the fear of going solo stop you, or the busy schedule. Whatever time is in the calendar will be filled, by work, jobs, family and friends, so it’s important to make time for these important things in life, for the solo adventures, because the opportunity won’t simply present itself. Book it, get it in the diary and make it a priority.
