From gift guides to Instagram ads to those Amazon kids toy magazines to Black Friday deals,

everyone right now is telling us that we should be buying more, that we should have more,

that we should be dressing in cuter clothes and decorating more perfectly.

And today I just want to be a voice that says, you don't.

You don't.

You don't have to buy all of those things.

You don't have to do more.

The good stuff, the really good stuff of this holiday season,

is found in the quiet, grateful moments.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 174.

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this is a podcast all about learning to work and play well which leads to a healthy soul in a fulfilling life listen in

this time of year there is so Listen at.

This time of year, there is so much pressure.

Pressure to buy so much stuff.

Pressure to lead your family in the most perfect Advent devotional and never miss a night.

Pressure to have your house in perfect order and decorated looking a certain way.

Pressure to be at all these events and parties and festivities and to throw some of your own.

Pressure to make cookies, to make baked goods, to be the perfect mom.

And also somehow keep taking care of yourself and work out and be a wife and mother and all of it, all the things. There's so much pressure

on us. And it's a fight to cultivate contentment during the holidays. Because all of the noise and all of the voices

around us are constantly telling us that we need to be doing more and we need to have more.

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