Confessions - I'm dreading Christmas this year, the first since my husband left
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
"I am dreading Christmas this year. My first since my husband left. My kids are already counting down but I want to go to bed, open my eyes, and it be over."
Anna replies with some compassionate advice and tips that will help everyone, regardless of whether they can relate to this confession or not.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Therapy Edit. I'm your host, Psychotherapist and author Anna Martha. I will be bringing |
| 0:06.5 | you bite-sized episodes twice a week full of tips, wise words from expert guests and insights to support |
| 0:13.5 | your mental well-being. Hello and welcome to today's episode of the Therapy Edit, where I answer one of your confessions |
| 0:23.0 | from the therapy room. These are anonymous confessions that you type into my website. |
| 0:29.0 | You don't have to put your name or anything, a little space for you to share the thing that |
| 0:34.2 | you don't necessarily feel comfortable sharing. And in this 10 minute episode, |
| 0:38.7 | what I do is I share some of my therapeutic thoughts for you, because as it always is, |
| 0:46.5 | despite the fact that so often it does not feel this way, you will not be the only one. |
| 0:53.3 | And also, even if people listening do not necessarily relate to the |
| 0:58.7 | certain circumstances that we share in this confession, there will absolutely be tips and |
| 1:04.9 | insights that feel really relevant to you. So the confession that I am going to talk through today is this. I am dreading |
| 1:16.0 | Christmas this year. My first since my husband left. My kids are already counting down, |
| 1:23.4 | but I want to go to bed, open my eyes, and it be over. |
| 1:29.2 | Now, oh, I think my heart just felt that heaviness for this person, |
| 1:37.3 | that heaviness and that expectation of just feeling like you have to present yourself |
| 1:42.9 | in a certain way, maybe you have to present yourself in a certain way. |
| 1:45.8 | Maybe you have to put on a happy face, |
| 1:50.2 | join in with things that actually you really do not feel like doing. |
| 1:51.7 | You just want to hit fast forward. |
| 1:53.7 | You just want to climb into bed. |
| 2:00.0 | The weight of wearing a mask is really heavy sometimes. |
| 2:05.7 | And maybe you do not resonate with this particular situation, |
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