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With the holidays just around the corner and the weather getting colder, this is the time when a lot of people are tempted to slide back into old patterns.

This is when people hit up their exes again in the DMs or jump back into a relationship just so that they don't feel lonely on New Year's.

And hey, I know very well how tempting and feels, but I also know how shitty it feels,

waking up the next morning, filled with regret, and wishing that you had never done it.

Don't worry, Bestie, I got your back.

In today's episode, I'm going to share a full list of tips and ideas

on how to avoid falling into this pattern.

Plus, how to self-care if it's already happened

and now you're looking to repair right after this intro.

Hi, I'm Gloria Zhang and after 10 years of struggling in toxic relationships,

I attracted the love of my life by healing my inner child.

This podcast is your weekly dose of my expertise as a therapist and dating relationship

coach for high achievers.

Learn tips to overcome low self-worth, emotional baggage, and childhood trauma so that you

too can step into your power and attract the love you desire.

Welcome to the Inner Child Podcast.

Hello and welcome back to the Inner Child podcast. I am your host, Gloria Zang. I'm a therapist

and coach for High Achievers. And today we are switching gears to prepare for the holidays.

Now, whether you are single or in a relationship or somewhere in between, just the fact that it's the holidays and we see all these hallmark commercials and colored lights and happy people and families, it is so easy to start sliding back into old patterns this time of year and then vowing to ourselves on the New Year's Eve that it's never going to happen again

and it turns into the cycle. One in particular is when you start giving people that second chance or that

third chance or your ex slides into your DMs and you feel so much temptation to reply, to do

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