Hello, beautiful butterflies.

Welcome to this week's Flying Higher Moment.

We are in the midst of the holidays right now, which can be stressful and emotionally

painful time for many people for many reasons.

The holidays bring up a lot of stuff for us, don't they?

Both good and bad.

I've done a lot of writing and podcasting about the holidays in the past,

and I will put a link to those things in the show notes for you. But today, I want to give you a little

idea that I offered one of our kaleidoscope butterflies this past week in our private forum,

and I'm hoping that it might make your holiday season different than what you're

anticipating right now in a good way. So this butterfly has already done a lot of internal

work in her life and made some tremendous progress. And one of the tools that she has become

skilled at using for her own self-development

is a cognitive behavioral therapy tool that I teach in my program. And she used this tool to

examine a belief she was struggling with that was creating a lot of distress for her here at the

beginning of this holiday season. So while putting up her Christmas tree, her brain began to ruminate on all of the things

that she has lost over the years and on all of the things that she always dreamed of having

but never had.

Her prevailing thought as a result was Christmas isn't fun anymore.

And she wrote this. And by the way, when I share things from the cladiscope, I change a few little

things. I will take out any references to their family, whether they have daughters or sons. I'll take out other things

too. I'll change things a little bit just so that nobody knows this could be absolutely anybody.

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