52 | Why We Stopped Going House-to-House for the Holidays (and How You Can, Too)
Living Easy with Lindsey
Lindsey Maestas
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
My blog post on this topic has gone viral ten times over - so I know that there are many families who need to hear some real truth about this topic. I hope that this conversation and these scriptures bring you freedom to enjoy your own little family this holiday season - without forsaking love.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. It is Lindsay and I have had way too much coffee today, but that always ams me up to record and so I figured you know what I have had this conversation before on my blog. |
| 0:13.2 | I've talked about it. |
| 0:14.2 | It has been shared a lot, and I'm thankful for that. |
| 0:17.7 | But I really want to talk about it again, |
| 0:19.6 | especially right now, because it's a season of slowness with Christmas and |
| 0:24.8 | Thanksgiving because of COVID and I think it's a good time for us to evaluate |
| 0:29.4 | how that slowness feels. So on today's episode, why we stopped going house to house for |
| 0:36.2 | the holidays, I want to talk about what changed for us and why we changed it. It is a crazy time when you have divorced parents who have |
| 0:48.3 | extended family. I mean we live in a city where all of our families |
| 0:51.9 | here which is an incredible blessing and I'm so |
| 0:54.4 | thankful which is why we've lived here our whole lives we're very close with our |
| 0:57.1 | families but when I say that the holidays are hard they are hard so yeah I hope that this episode encourages you guys to create |
| 1:06.3 | healthy boundaries within your family but also encourages you to really |
| 1:10.0 | strengthen those relationships throughout the year so that those moments of |
| 1:13.2 | holidays don't define your presence or absence with your family. I would also |
| 1:18.7 | like to say a quick hello to anyone here from Tik-Tok. I posted a Tik Talk and it grew pretty |
| 1:26.2 | quickly and I felt like I should just give you a genuine hello and I'm so |
| 1:31.2 | thankful that you're here if this is your first time |
| 1:33.3 | listening to the Living Easy Podcast I talk all about faith and |
| 1:36.8 | relationships with a gospel foundation my husband jumps on a lot and then we get to |
| 1:40.7 | talk to really incredible people with so much wisdom and I love |
| 1:44.6 | digging into the hard topics that people don't always like to talk about. |
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