385: Honoring Relationships AND your Nervous System Over the Holidays

Latter Day Struggles

Valerie Hamaker

Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Mental Health

4.5 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Send us a Positive Review! If Episode 384 (the one right before this one!) addresses the larger psychological question of why the holidays & family events can be extra challenging and painful for those on the LDS faith expansion journey--then this episode answers the equally relevant follow up question: What can I actually do to maximize my potential to feel present and grounded at these holiday events? In today's episode, Val focuses in on two prevalent kinds of LDS family s...

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Struggles Black Friday sale is happening November 25th through December 2nd.
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0:11.4	Whether you're looking for deeper support in your faith journey, guidance for your relationships, or tools for personal healing, this is the perfect time to stock up.
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0:35.6	Hello, my friends. Welcome to Latter Day Struggles. This is your host, Valerie. I'm very excited to be here with you. I know I say that every time, but I really have tried. And I think I've fairly frequently, if not always succeeded. I don't get on this speaker and talk to you unless I'm really feeling it. And I'm feeling really grateful. So today is no exception.
0:54.4	As a matter of fact, what I'm going to be talking to you all about today is something that has
0:58.7	been so much on my mind that this is actually an extra episode. So I want to give you a little
1:04.1	bit of a backstory about what's going on here. I have spent the last several days preparing for
1:09.0	my November 2025 office hours.
1:12.6	And I always like to take people's requests and sort of get a sense of like, okay, what's going on and out there?
1:17.8	What are people wanting to talk about?
1:19.3	And this predictably comes up more so during the holidays than any other time of the year because it's it's when we tend to meet
1:29.7	with our loved ones. And for so many of us on a faith journey here in and around the Church
1:35.3	of Jesus Christ of Latterty Saints, this is a time that starts to feel a little bit anxiety-inducing.
1:41.4	It's it's kind of nerve-wracking to step back into your family system,
1:47.5	your family of origin, especially if you're someone who is on a faith journey and your identity
1:54.3	and relationship with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is changing and it's making
2:00.1	people who love you very, very nervous
2:02.4	around you.
2:03.5	And it sometimes disrupts more than just a relationship with one or two people.
2:08.7	It just makes everything a little bit weird and awkward.
2:11.4	And so you might be one of those people.
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