3820: Avoiding a Stressful Holiday Season by Lisa Avellan with No Sidebar on Self-Care during Holidays

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🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3820: Lisa Avellan reimagines the holiday season by encouraging simplicity, presence, and emotional clarity over pressure-filled traditions. Her heartfelt reflections offer a path to reclaim peace and meaning by releasing unrealistic expectations and embracing what truly matters. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://nosidebar.com/stressful-holiday-season/ Quotes to ponder: "Permission is powerful, and sometimes we have to give it to ourselves." "Simplifying the holidays didn’t mean canceling them, it meant redefining them." "We can’t do it all. But we can do what matters most." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.9	Avoiding a stressful holiday season by Lisa Aveyan with no sidebar.com. And I'm
1:13.4	Justin Mollick, your personal narrator, and the guy that reads to you every single day of the year,
1:18.2	including holidays all through the holiday season. It's kind of like an ongoing audiobook,
1:22.6	but free. For now, let's get right to it as we optimize your life avoiding a stressful holiday season by lisa avion with no sidebar
1:35.4	dot com around the time thanksgiving was wrapping up last year i discovered minimalism as we set our goodbyes to visiting family
1:43.8	and geared ourselves up for the
1:45.2	inevitable hustle of December, my heart gently whispered, simple, simplify this, let go of that, say no.
1:54.2	I wasn't sure about it at first because, well, it was the holidays and isn't this supposed to be the
1:59.4	most wonderful time of the year? You can't get around the busyness no matter where you go was the holidays, and isn't this supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year?
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