1KHO 629: Good Enough Is Both Good and Enough | Niro Feliciano, All is Calm-ish

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The holidays promise magic but deliver a lengthy to-do list the length as well. In this conversation, cognitive psychotherapist and TODAY Show contributor Niro Feliciano helps us name the real culprit behind our December depletion: comparison culture, commercial pressure, and the quiet belief that we’re failing if we’re not doing everything. Drawing from her 31-day guide All Is Calmish, Niro gives a therapist-in-your-pocket reset for the season. She guides listeners through micro-moments of wellness that actually work when life is full: morning light, a sleep goal, short walks, friendship as medicine, and breathing tools so practical even Navy SEALs use them. But this episode goes deeper than hacks. It’s about reclaiming joy from the performance of joy. Niro walks us through future-saving ways to handle family drama, why gifts can be a love-language landmine, and how simple strategies like shared wish lists and experience gifts restore connection. She speaks tenderly to the grieving, offering permission to do holidays differently, and reminds us that what kids remember isn’t the haul—it’s the presence. The kind that grows when screens go away, expectations loosen, and we choose the sledding hill over the spotless kitchen. This is the episode for anyone who wants a calmer holiday and a better life the other eleven months, too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.6	HelloVet.
0:26.6	All right, here we go.
0:27.8	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.
0:30.0	My name is Ginny Urich and the founder of 1000 Hours Outside.
0:32.6	And we are going to be talking about the holidays today, which holidays can be so stressful,
0:36.7	but we want them to be so wonderful.
0:38.3	And the author of All is Colmish, which is such a great title, is here.
0:42.3	Nero Feliciano, welcome.
0:44.3	Thank you so much for having me.
0:47.3	Okay, I love the title. All is Comish. It's so great.
0:50.3	This is about feeling less frantic and more festive during the holidays, which is so important. Like we want to enjoy these years and I read your book and I was like, I relate to everything. And like every year, I'm like next year, I'm not doing this. We're always wrapping presents on Christmas Eve like heading into Christmas morning. Like every year and every year I'm like, I'm not going to do it again next year and then And I do and every year it's like who has what and what do we give for so and so and I thought I had a list
1:13.5	and I got and I lost track so can you talk about your background your cognitive therapist you're working with families yeah and you just see that this I mean it's I think it's pretty remarkable to put that a book that, you know, this is like for, you know,
1:26.9	mid-October into end of December,
1:30.1	into maybe the little bit at the beginning, pretty remarkable to put out a book that, you know, this is like for, you know, mid-October into
1:28.4	the end of December, into maybe the little bit the beginning of January, but it's a seasonal
1:32.8	book, but really needed. Can you talk about what you were seeing and who you were talking to
1:37.6	that led you to write this book? Absolutely. And Jenny, I'm just so glad to know you're like
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