Welcome to the Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton, and this is a quick little holiday special.

Just wanted to send out a quick message to everyone that's out there with a few simple reminders for the holiday season, wherever you are, whatever your holiday looks like this year with restrictions and quarantines and COVIDs and all that other wonderful jazz. So whatever

you have going on this holiday season, my invitation for you is to ground back into your

practices, your rituals, whatever it looks like for you to prioritize self-regulation and self-soothing.

It's in these moments of the holiday season that we often forget these things, that we often allow ourselves to move into a space of chaos, of forgetting the things that allow us to feel connected in our core,

connected to presence, connected to grounding, and connected to stability.

And as we've all seen this year, those things have been undeniably tested rigorously over and over and over again.

Our capacity to be with ourselves, our capacity to be with our own emotions, with our own

reactions to CNN and Fox News and viruses and masks or not masks.

We have been met repeatedly this year with an invitation to slow down, to go within,

to get present to our own experience and our own reaction.

And the holiday season is no different.

Oftentimes when we come upon the holidays and we are met with a time where maybe we

feel complete relaxation, maybe that's where we feel the most at home, where we feel

like we are sort of able to let go and to not have to

continue to work so hard to find grounding we can let ourselves go it's often in the face of

of joy and happiness where all of a sudden our rituals and our routines and the skills

and the sort of discipline that we have cultivated to remain grounded, to remain centered,

to remain present, follows by the wayside. Or you find yourself an environment that's chaotic

and you are around family members that are maybe

disappointing or infuriating or you know espousing some conspiracy theory and it's a very

confronting and testing experience so no matter what your holiday looks like this season no matter

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