3 Things to Do this Christmas
Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)
Danielle Bean
4.9 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Girlfriends, episode number 101. |
| 0:02.7 | Three Things to Do This Christmas. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Danielle Bean. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm a wife and a mom, |
| 0:18.4 | and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living. |
| 0:25.2 | In today's show, I'm sharing three simple things every one of us should do this Christmas, and I hope you'll share your thoughts, too. |
| 0:31.0 | Come on, let's get started. |
| 0:37.3 | Hey, girlfriends, good morning. Welcome to the third week of Advent, which really is like the |
| 0:43.0 | fourth week of Advent because there is no fourth week of Advent. Did you know that? It's a con. |
| 0:48.4 | They're going to light the candles, but Christmas is the next day. So I hope you're doing well. I hope you're caught up on everything |
| 0:57.0 | you want to be caught up on. I most certainly am not. But I keep reassuring myself that Christmas is |
| 1:02.2 | coming, whether I'm ready for it or not, whether all the things get done or not, and it's going to be |
| 1:07.0 | okay. I have that kind of perspective now, but early on in my marriage and in my motherhood, |
| 1:12.9 | in our family life, I used to put a lot more pressure on myself. And I sometimes drove my family |
| 1:18.8 | crazy. I've shared before about how we used to wait to the last minute to put up the tree. |
| 1:22.9 | And I was a wreck from the stress of trying to do everything in the last minute. Well, even worse than that, |
| 1:28.6 | sometimes there were things that I should have let go of that I didn't let go of. And I put that |
| 1:33.8 | pressure on myself to the detriment of everybody's experience. So I'm being better about that this |
| 1:39.3 | year. I did let go of some things. We're going to talk about that. That's one of the things that |
| 1:43.8 | I'm sharing in this podcast. But, you know, I was especially on overwhelm this Advent season. I shared last week about how some changes were going on with my work in the end. Good changes, but stressful changes. Well, I can share a little bit more now because there's some news that's come out in the past week and I wasn't planning |
| 2:02.0 | to share it until the new year, but all of a sudden it's on Twitter. So I'm going to share. |
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