188 How to Survive this Holiday Season

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Facing the holiday season can be intimidating. Normal everyday life is complicated enough living with ADHD, and yet so much more is expected of us in the last few months of the year.

Our inner child may have this beautiful fantasy of a perfect holiday season, but we feel let down when it doesn’t all go according to plan. So how can we approach this year differently to make sure we make the most of all the magic without getting swallowed by it?

In episode 188, I offer a strategic plan for managing your expectations and capacity in order to face this time with intentionality and prioritization. By staying grounded in reality and sitting in the driver’s seat of how we want this season to go, we can avoid those icky feelings of shame, exhaustion, disappointment, and stress while embracing real connection, rest, and genuine joy!

If you want to set yourself up for success before it gets hard with a fantastic support group, I invite you to join my group coaching program, FOCUSED. All month long, I’ll be focusing on ways to manage the holiday season, and I’d love to take you along with us.>>FOCUSED<<

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0:00.0	Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and
0:11.1	coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD. Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder.
0:27.0	I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B.
0:34.0	Hey what's up, this is Kristen Carter and you're listening to the I have
0:40.8	ADHD podcast episode number 188. I am medicated, I am caffeinated, and I am ready to roll.
0:48.0	Hello, hello, hello! How are you? I am so glad that you are here with me today and I am so glad that we are talking
0:57.1	about how to survive the holiday season because literally I just had to cancel all of my Thanksgiving holiday plans and I do think that this
1:06.3	episode is going to come in handy for those of us with ADHD who are trying to
1:11.6	navigate the holidays with intentionality. with
1:13.3	attention intentionality, with just at least some executive function
1:18.7	and trying to survive it with our sanity intact. Every single member of the Carter family has been
1:27.2	sick in the last two weeks. We dropped like dominoes one after the other first Charlie and then Crosby and then Owen and
1:36.3	Greg and I was the last domino to fall I thought maybe I had escaped it I was praying that I had escaped it but alas I
1:48.9	fell sick on Thanksgiving day all of the plans were cancelled.
1:54.0	Thanksgiving plans, friends giving plans, everything cancelled.
1:58.0	So sad! Oh my goodness.
2:01.0	I was really looking forward to a lot of the festivities and having to cancel. It just did not fit into my plan. It was not part of the plan. And if you have had to cancel a holiday
2:15.0	recently or ever, you know how that feels, it's just, it's really not fun. So I am
2:21.2	finally back to work.
2:22.8	I am squeezing this podcast in at the deadline.
2:26.7	I had it actually written and recorded last week,
2:30.2	but the recording was terrible. It was very crackly and I just I couldn't put it out there so
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