You're listening to The Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized confidence coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the internet.

I teach go-getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey there. It's Trish Blackwell, and you're listening to The Confidence Podcast. This is episode number 474. It's good timing, guys. We are.

To summer 21st, if you're listening live, if you're not listening live, this is a great episode for you to save and to go into any holiday season, equipping your brain with helpful sentences.

That's what affirmations are. They're just helpful sentences where you're taking captive your thoughts. You're intentionally dialing in your directive thoughts.

And that's what we're talking about today. Affirmations for a happy holiday, because y'all, it is the most wonderful time of the year.

And if you don't count all the stress, all the expectations, and all the people pleasing, and all the things to do, if that's not enough, this is exhausting.

This year doesn't have to exhaust you like previous years when you use a simple practice of affirmations and thought reframing.

This podcast episode is going to provide you a solid foundation for holiday affirmations that will help you feel centered and focused.

Honestly, it's an episode anyone can benefit from this season. So share it with your mom, share it with your sister, share it with your friend who's hosting or stressed and does last minute Christmas shopping, share, and let's dial in to create more peace in the season.

And before we even go forward, I got to look total transparently. I was struggling just a couple days ago with these concepts.

And so I love coaching because I get to create content that helps me first and reminds me of what I know and I put into practice and application.

And I just wanted to just have a hard to heart that even if in the past, you've been really good at balance or margins, or that you've seen tremendous growth in the past year by, because you've been so committed to your personal growth and your thoughts and your attentiveness and mindfulness, it's normal for your brain to want to freak out right now.

It's normal to absorb the stress and then think, oh my gosh, okay, I'm getting this and the presence for the teachers and this and, oh, no, wait, when I'm supposed to get pictures of the Santa was Santa for my kids.

Like the amount of obligations that we're juggling is pretty high. And so even if you feel like you have really found this balance, getting off the busy bus and feeling at peace, don't beat yourself up if you have a day where like, wow, I'm super stressed.

And that's why I gave you these affirmations. Affirmations are exit ramps to panic thoughts. They help you take out of, take yourself off of the highway that's leading you to a place of stress.

And remember that when your brain goes back into default thinking, we just go back to determined thinking, we just, we just switch it a little bit, right? Like it's, it's helpful to say to yourself, nothing has gone wrong here.

Brain, you just forgot that this thought is actually a better thought or this approach isn't one that I like to do anymore. I'm not going to buy into that method and instead, I'm going to be intentional.

I want to create an intentional holiday season. And that's what we're going to be coaching on today. So I'm going to talk to you briefly about the power of affirmations and how to even do them from a faith based perspective.

I'm going to talk about holiday affirmations giving you a specific touch. Do I have 20 holiday affirmations for you? So we're going to go into that into detail on those and how to set holiday goals.

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