Hey, besties and welcome back to the Inner Child podcast. As you well know, the holiday season is upon us,

which can be a joyful time for some people, but I know for the majority of listeners, it's a time of

difficult memories of sometimes having to see people who we really don't want to see. And I know for a fact,

for a lot of folks here, when the season is upon us, when we see other happy couples, when it's

starting to get cold, we feel lonely, we feel all by yourselves and the temptation to jump into unhealthy or not very aligned relationships

tends to be the highest around this time of year.

So this year we're doing something a little bit different.

For the next couple of episodes, we are going to

bring back some of our earlier holiday seasons, which were popular several years ago, but the topics

apply more than ever. And I hope that it'll be nostalgic for some of you, and you will find

that some of the topics we discuss here are absolutely timeless. It's been a wild year for a lot of us,

a lot of ups and downs this year, but I always end on and up. And I want to thank everyone for being here on this

journey with me. Together, we cracked 2 million downloads not too long ago. And I'm really proud of

you for getting to the end of this year, even if all you did was survive. That's okay because you're still

here. You're existing. You are doing the work. So today's episode, we are bringing back our

popular episode that we launched two years ago around Christmastime. It was called How to Overcome the Cuffing Season Temptations

Over the Holidays. So this episode is for people who feel very lonely on the holidays,

who start to feel nostalgic and start to fall for these hopes that someone has changed or falling for the hopes that

maybe I'll just soften up my boundaries and hit up someone that I really shouldn't be talking

to, hoping that the spirit of Christmas will magically change and that everything will be

perfect and happy.

Well, as fantastical and as wonderful as that

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