Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly, here, your host.

And today we are going to talk all about handling our family drama this is a topic

that is pretty much relevant at all times and in all ways perhaps the holidays are coming up and you

know you're going to see your family members. Maybe it's a family reunion

or maybe you just check in with them regularly and run into the same kinds of conflict each time.

Again, you are not alone and so it is really important that we give you some tips in how to deal

with this. I know there is nothing

more beautiful and more stressful than being with your family. The highs of reconnecting with

people, the great memories, the smell and the kitchen might bring back all this great moments

from your childhood.

But there also could be that uncle that's just a little bit on the inappropriate side.

Or political drama where two of your family members or half of your family falls on one spectrum and then half of the other.

Or religious conflict.

If someone in your family and

its holiday season doesn't celebrate Christmas, they may celebrate another holiday or none at all,

all of these things make family gatherings wonderful but also rife and ready for some drama.

And so today my goal is to give you really 10 tips to help you manage this and an assignment for you at the end to try to practice at least one of these

tips for your next family engagement. Burnout comes in all forms. It's not just work burnout. Sometimes we have

family relationship burnout that we get overwhelmed. We get disconnected and the temptation may be

to either react in a couple ways. Completely shut down and go to Tahiti in your mind. Maybe

you're the role of the peacemaker, which many

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