This week, please enjoy an encore episode of the Divorce Survival Guide podcast.

Kate will return with new episodes in December.

Welcome to the Divorce Survival Guide podcast, where we have open and honest conversations

about co-parenting, separation, divorce, and the hardest question

of all, should you stay or should you go?

I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate some of

the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions.

I've been to hell and back. And now it's my

mission in life to help you get to the other side of this process with your sanity and your

heart intact. So today we're going to be talking about holidays in divorce. Oh boy, it's a big one. It's a really

big one. And, you know, the first thing I want to say is that if you're having feelings about this,

then you are human.

And like we all have really, really big feelings about holidays in general.

But then if this is your first holiday since separating, or maybe it's, you know, it's going to be your last holiday as a intact

married family. You're going to have a lot of really big feelings about it. If it's your first

holiday as a divorced family, your kids are going to have a lot of feelings about it.

So I think it's really important to just acknowledge that this is an emotionally turbulent

time.

You know, like I said, the holidays are an emotionally turbulent time in the best and the happiest

of families. But with what you're going through

and wherever you happen to be in this process, this is a really, really emotionally rocking time.

So I just want you to know that you're not alone if you're if you're looking forward

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