This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach and on this show I will bring you

simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights

and observations from my time on the front lines of the fascinating worlds of entertainment,

empowerment, and mental health.

Now let's get going this week's episode, where I'm going to be talking about a topic that I do cover every year at the holiday time,

which is holiday blues.

So I'll ask you, do the holidays kind of get you down?

Does this time of year get you feeling blue? If so, this

episode is for you or if you know anyone who suffers in this way. This episode is

for you and I think you might be surprised at some of the advice

that I have for you because I really think that honoring the way you feel is

super important so let's start with why is this so common? It's one of the most common

phenomenons of people feeling really sad this time of year.

So if you had to guess, what do you think it is?

Well, let's start with how we are inundated with, you know unrealistic pictures and images of the happiest

families that ever lived on television and in movies and everything is just perfect and great and there's

snowballs and cocoa and yeah so there's that so the same way with love and with

romance we get fed this bunch of bowl it's the same thing with the

holidays because really there's no family that I know of that's like that that don't have conflict of some kind.

So that doesn't help us and I feel like we have these heightened expectations

and then we're disappointed because things are not as rosy, cozy as we hoped or thought that they were going to be.

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