Hello and welcome to the Teen Life Coach podcast. I'm your host Sammy and today we are talking

about holiday stress. Hey everyone, welcome to the podcast this week. What is up? Are you all ready

for Thanksgiving this week for some time off of school? I am looking forward to

having a few days off myself and spending some time with my family. We have friends in town

currently staying with us and more family is coming in tomorrow night and so it's going to be

a full house and I love it. I love being around people and I love kind of the chaos that it creates just because

it's so much fun.

Because it is Thanksgiving this week and Christmas is coming up soon, I wanted to do an

episode on helping you all survive the holidays because holidays can be really exciting and fun, but also cause

a lot of anxiety and stress.

And I don't know what your holidays look like in your family.

And I know not all of our families look the same or do the same things for the holidays.

We all have different family traditions and things we like to do.

But the one common theme around the holidays is We all have different family traditions and things we like to do. But the one common

theme around the holidays is more people. Typically, we are seeing more of people we don't see

on a day-to-day basis. We're gathering together. People might be visiting you or you might be

visiting someone else's house. There's just more people around

than let's just say you're a typical school night in your home. So let me tell you why you feel

anxious and stressed about the holidays. The most common reason you feel stressed around the holidays

is because you are worried about other people's judgments. Okay. So whether you give someone a gift or make

part of a meal, all right, that's one thing I get anxious about is like people tasting the part of

the meal that I made and they get to judge it, right? Or whether you like dress up or what outfit you're

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