155. Gather with Love: 3 Ideas for Joyful Family Holidays
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Your family is the perfect place to practice and grow because your soul chose them for a reason. Which might be exactly why holiday gatherings require a generous helping of patience and boundaries. In this episode of Spiritually Hungry, we share tips to increase the joy and reduce the friction this holiday season.
“None of us have enough appreciation for our parents. Of course, there are many things that you are not happy about. This holiday season, find ways to be more appreciative.” – Michael Berg
Further Readings:
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself, by Nedra Glover Tawwab
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| 0:00.0 | My point is it's not so much what you put out there or what you say or your clear line and division. |
| 0:14.0 | It has to be there and drawn, but mentally. |
| 0:17.0 | And then it has to be internally, what are you willing to tolerate or not? |
| 0:20.0 | So that if somebody treats you a certain way, |
| 0:23.7 | you become clear about how much you're going to let those words penetrate you |
| 0:28.0 | or how much it's going to affect what you believe, right? |
| 0:30.7 | Because you can't control anybody else's behavior ever. |
| 0:36.7 | Welcome to spiritually hungry. We've just begun the holiday season. Who's excited? |
| 0:43.9 | And it's marketed as the happiest time of the year. It's a fanz reading an article |
| 0:48.7 | yesterday in the New York Times that there are people who actually are taking like the week before |
| 0:52.5 | to like relax. |
| 0:54.9 | Mental health. |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.6 | There's a lot of people. |
| 0:57.5 | See, I forgot the statistics, but a lot of people view this as the most stressful time of |
| 1:02.1 | the year. |
| 1:02.9 | Well, we're going to put some light on the reasons why there's so many actually. |
| 1:09.5 | On the surface, of course, what's not to like in theory or |
| 1:13.2 | mostly in our imagination, it's time for elaborate dinners with friends and family, gift |
| 1:18.6 | giving and receiving and curling up in front of the fireplace and a comfy space with |
| 1:23.5 | slippers on and how nice, you're off work. But like so many things, |
| 1:28.5 | the fantasy doesn't always match reality. |
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