AP 549: Ways to Simplify AND Have More Fun this Holiday Season || with Brooke Romney

About Progress

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Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Does the overwhelm of the holidays ever force you to choose between going all in, or doing nothing at all? Maybe you're somewhere in the middle, but overcomplicating it for yourself and not even enjoying any of your traditions, or the relationships around you. Today Brooke Romney joins me to discuss the importance of simplifying holiday traditions. Brooke shares her insights on the challenges of overcomplicating the holiday season and how she has navigated this in her own family. Some specific examples of simple yet meaningful holiday traditions, are their "Best Lights Award," a candy bar gift exchange, and a dollar store gift exchange. We lean into the value of creating traditions that align with the core values and feelings each family member associates with the holiday season. Brooke also encourages you to communicate with your family members to identify what makes Christmas feel special to each individual and overall, offers practical tips and inspiring ideas for creating a more joyful and simplified holiday experience. Finding Me Academy My FREE DSL Training My FREE habits class Full Show Notes Sticky Habit Method This episode is brought to you by Vionic Shoes (use code PROGRESS) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Monica Packer, and you're listening to About Progress, where we are about
0:06.5	progress made practical.
0:09.7	In all of the holiday Holobulu, do you find yourself more as an orchestrator of all the events
0:16.1	and the traditions and the service opportunities going on, even more than a participant? It is really easy to overcomplicate anything to do with the holiday season, no matter what you celebrate.
0:29.0	And it all seems to come down to a problem that we have in many other areas of our lives.
0:35.2	How do we choose between many good things?
0:40.4	And the problem is, if you don't choose, you are left with either more disappointment or more stress or both.
0:49.0	I have to admit to you that I don't have a lot of confidence when it comes to anything holiday
0:55.0	related. No matter what holiday it is, I find myself feeling a little more
0:59.6	anxious and stuck that I do in other areas of my life.
1:04.0	For some reason, it just doesn't come easy to me
1:06.7	and I get really bogged down with a lot of shoulds
1:09.7	or I just find myself not doing anything because it seems easier. But then we miss out on a lot of fun.
1:17.7	If you've listened to the podcast the last two years, then you know that
1:20.8	2022 was really about healing our family by having more fun after a couple
1:26.6	really tough years and we did that and in the process I found that having more holiday traditions and activities together was an important part of this.
1:37.0	So I come to the table today not with a lot of advice to share, but a lot of eagerness to learn alongside you from our guest
1:46.1	Brooke Romney. Brooke will take you through a wonderful process on how to simplify the holidays for you and she also provides some awesome
1:56.1	and very doable ideas that you can instill in your family this holiday season.
2:02.1	It really is the perfect mix of deep and practical today.
2:07.3	Brooke Romney is a writer, speaker, and leader of an online community who helps moms of teens and
2:13.0	create meaningful, healthy, and enjoyable
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