Celebrating the Holidays When Life Is Blowing Up - Part One [201]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

Emotional, Narcissism, Christianity, Abuse, Religion & Spirituality, Spiritual, Christian, Self-improvement, Education, Divorce, Marriage

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The holiday season can be bittersweet, imbued with magic and pain in equal parts. For many people, it can be a very emotional time, with all the Christmassy sounds and smells unearthing memories from the depths of their childhoods. It’s important to be kind to ourselves during this time, and in this episode, we’re tackling some of the questions posed by our Flying Free community in order to equip you to make the most of the holidays! Tune in for advice on how to honor healing and pain while making space for joy, how to prepare your kids for new traditions amidst the changes in their lives, and how to remain unaffected by others’ bad humor, as well as how to manage loneliness, and more. If you’re at a loss about how to keep the Christmas spirit going for you and your family, we also share some examples of fun new Christmas traditions for you to try out. We hope you’ll join us today! Key Points From This Episode: - The mixed emotions brought on by the holiday season. - Clean pain versus dirty pain. - How to honor clean pain or grief while making space for joy in the Christmas season. - Tips for remaining unaffected by the bad humor of those around you. - How to prepare the kids for their first Christmas post-divorce. - Examples of fun new Christmas traditions. - How to continue the process of healing in the midst of holiday stress. - The journey of healing. - How to make the most of your Christmas! - How to deal with feelings of loneliness during the holidays. - The key to healing core shame. - Tips for becoming a good friend to yourself. Listen or download the transcript at flyingfreenow.com/201 FREE: I'll send you the first chapter of my book, Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage. Just hop on my mailing list at flyingfreesisterhood.com/free-download. (I will NEVER spam you or sell your information.) Desperate for real help and safe people who understand what you're going through? Find out about my online education and support program for women of faith at joinflyingfree.com And, if you are an already divorced Christian woman who wants to take back her life and get healthy, have amazing relationships, build a business or career, or even find a good man - check out joinflyinghigher.com

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.
0:07.0	And you're listening to the Flying Free Podcast,
0:11.0	a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden
0:16.4	emotional and spiritual abuse.
0:18.9	Welcome to episode 201 of the Fly and Free Podcast.
0:27.0	It's the most wonderful time of the year. Not for everyone. This is the time of the year where there are so many
0:42.0	mixed emotions.
0:44.2	Memories brought on by familiar music and smells
0:49.3	that date back to our childhoods.
0:52.0	And many of those memories are bittersweet. I remember one
0:55.5	December when I was 11 years old and a little girl in our elementary school was
1:00.6	run over by her bus. She had dropped a school paper and it blew under the bus as she got
1:06.1	off so she crawled under the bus to get it and the kids all watched her get crushed under
1:11.0	the wheels when it drove away and I will never forget that Christmas. I wasn't there, I just heard about it, but one of my best friends was on the bus when it happened. I remember staring at the Christmas tree at night. I would just sit on this chair
1:26.4	and just stare at the Christmas tree and I knew Christmas was never going to be the same
1:30.9	for me and it never was. A Christmas does not go by that I don't remember that. The
1:36.4	magic and the beauty was gone and it was replaced with this horrible reality at
1:41.7	11 years old that terrifying things can happen in this world.
1:46.0	And since that time I've learned that there are other ways, a million other ways, for the holidays
1:51.6	to be a mix of magic and pain.
1:54.0	So I want to talk about Christmas related questions
1:57.0	that you might have for the next two weeks.
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