Ep 718: Tis The Season
Your Favorite Aunties
ShaMarian Nia
4.9 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Your Favorite Aunties dive deep into the real emotions that come with the holiday season from joy and excitement to grief, loneliness, and seasonal depression. We’re holding space for those navigating their first holiday without someone they love, big life transitions, or just trying to push through mentally.
We discuss:
• The truth about seasonal depression during the holidays
• How to embrace joy even when you’re grieving
• Faith, therapy & medication and removing the shame
• Managing expectations and protecting your peace
• How to show up for people who are struggling
Whether this time of year fills your heart or feels heavy you belong here. ❤️
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| 0:00.0 | What's up you guys welcome back to another episode of your favorite aunties podcast |
| 0:10.4 | Okay, I just I feel like I just need a minute. Mm-hmm. Like I just something there is something going on |
| 0:17.4 | Something is happening and it's like I feel I feel away. I feel like I'm mad |
| 0:24.9 | Might be myself Might be mad at me. Mm-hmm I feel, I feel a way, I feel like I'm mad. It's a thing. |
| 0:25.4 | It might be myself. |
| 0:26.4 | It might be mad at me. |
| 0:30.4 | What about you? |
| 0:31.4 | Where are you at with it today? |
| 0:32.9 | I'm at peace. |
| 0:34.6 | Oh, must be mad. |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah, I'm feeling, I'm feeling okay. |
| 0:40.3 | I've been feeling actually really good. |
| 0:42.4 | That's what's up. |
| 0:43.7 | That's what's up. That's what's up. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm gonna just take my meds and I feel just like. |
| 0:46.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.2 | I think because, I'm thinking about this the other day, I think because I'm just like in a mode where I'm adding in, I'm making my deposits. You know what I mean? So I'm just in a season of like making my deposits and I'm doing my best to make those and like, prioritize myself and self-care and working out in sunlight and fresh air. |
| 1:09.5 | And, that was, that was really good. Touch me. Okay. No, I'm saying like just to hear you say it like that, like depositing things within yourself and then giving those examples, that was really good. Yeah, it's very easily overlooked and it's very important as we move into the holidays because things come up. Yeah. You have a season of depression. You have the holidays. You may be single for the holidays and it's like again here, you know, like lots of things are happening at this time of year. So it is important even more to make those deposits. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's really good. I think definitely right now I know that I've talked about this in previous episodes. Seasonal depression is definitely something that I go through around this time of year. |
| 2:06.2 | And I know last year, this was a time |
| 2:09.9 | that was talking to my therapist. |
| 2:11.6 | And I think also my gynecologist |
| 2:13.6 | and she recommended me getting on medication for it. |
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