71. 3 Ways to Avoid the Holiday Blues & and Lean Into Holiday Cheer
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Holidays often represent what we wish our everyday life could be like. Many of us strive to create picture-perfect memories that will leave us feeling joyful long after the celebrations have passed. What do we do when fantasy doesn’t match reality? The truth is, many aspects of holiday gatherings are out of our control. Tune in as Monica and Michael discuss how to cultivate holiday joy on a daily basis instead of trying to fit it into a single day or week.
“Every single day, no matter what day it happens to be on the calendar, is an opportunity to appreciate and spend our time exactly as we wish to. Every day becomes an opportunity to redefine how we live and what we choose to focus on.” – Monica Berg
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| 0:00.0 | going into the holidays time comes to a screeching halt because internally what we want is to feel |
| 0:14.1 | joy but what the outside tells us it's not now right that's why we put so much pressure on |
| 0:19.7 | the holidays being so much for us, right? |
| 0:21.6 | That's the time where we're going to relax. That's the time that we're going to eat whatever we |
| 0:25.2 | want. That's the time where we're going to just put everything on hold and just be happy. |
| 0:30.2 | But what if we had that every day of our lives? I think this is the mistake that we made. |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast episode 71. |
| 0:43.8 | Seventy-one. |
| 0:44.7 | How do we enjoy the holidays? |
| 0:47.5 | That's a big question. |
| 0:48.4 | Are we supposed to enjoy them? |
| 0:49.6 | Well, and the other question is, how do we avoid the holiday blues? |
| 0:53.5 | Last week was Thanksgiving, and it's the time of year again when we tend to overindulge in several areas. |
| 0:58.9 | We eat and drink whatever we want, often to excess. |
| 1:02.9 | We, meaning women, especially put extra care on our appearance, planning the perfect outfit, |
| 1:08.9 | decorating, baking, shopping, wrapping, all to experience the |
| 1:12.8 | elusive holiday cheer and achieve those picture-perfect memories that will live on forever |
| 1:17.2 | in the pages of our photo albums and on Facebook. Sound familiar? Not really. As you were |
| 1:22.7 | saying that, I was asking a picture to say that. Well, that's for most listeners. I think that they would agree. No matter which holiday you celebrate, excellent food, beautifully appointed homes, festive decorations, singing, presents, and spending time with loved ones, all play a major part. In short, the holidays symbolize everything that we wish our ideal life could be like. It's kind of like, you know, leave it to Beaver, you know, these like picture perfect 50s |
| 1:48.8 | families. I think that's how we kind of look at the holidays. |
| 1:52.6 | Holidays are marketed as the happiest time of the year. And on the surface... |
| 1:56.3 | The most wonderful time of the year. What's not to like? |
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