Girlfriends, episode number 150. Five ways to not go insane before Christmas.

Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom, 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. This week,

we're talking about an important topic for us moms this time of year, how to not go crazy

before Christmas Day comes. Can't wait to share with you. Let's get started.

Hey, girlfriends. how are you?

Hope you're doing well.

Thanks for joining me for another episode of the Girlfriends podcast.

Here's the important one.

And I hesitated about where exactly to time this.

And I really think right at the start of Advent is probably the best time to start this, because that's when truly we are driving ourselves nuts getting ready for Christmas and

stressing about it in various ways. I'm going to share with you just five ideas today,

but I have like a million ideas and a million thoughts about this because I have done it wrong

many, many times. And I'm sure I'm going to continue to do Advent wrong and freak myself out

and freak out on my family and then I'm going to pick myself back up and start over. So that's the

first thing that I want to

tell you going into this topic is it's normal to struggle with this. You know, we, we women are the kind

doers and the planners and our families. And all of that really can put a lot of stress on you,

especially during the holidays. When everyone has their own expectations, there's a ton of

extra stuff, there's financial stress

there's physical stress of just being on your feet and on the go all day long and there's just

stress on your family there's stress on your marriage i i want to just start out by just

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