My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.
I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.
Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
I have always heard that you need to give yourself a long time to unplug when you do a sabbatical. I unplugged so fast I was a little concerned that I was losing brain capacity.