Episode 139: When The Holidays Are Hard

The Carlos Whittaker Podcast

That Sounds Fun Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Let me ask you a question: How are you feeling this holiday season?

A) I’m feeling the Christmas magic! Grateful!

B) I’m sad or lonely or really stressed…

If you answered yes, you’re in good company. Maybe you’re having the best Christmas season you’ve had in a long time! Or maybe you’re coping with grief, illness, financial insecurity, or something else. There’s a good chance you’re dealing with some mix of all of the above, and that’s okay.

The holidays can be complicated, and every Christmas song tries to tell you to “be of good cheer.” I’m here to tell you that you don’t have to. And you’re not alone.

So how do you cope when the holidays are hard? Take a listen, and I’ll share some ways I’m shedding expectations this year. (And I sing a little too…)

Prayer:

God, we acknowledge who You are, and we are grateful. We praise You for who You are, and we thank You for what You’ve done. We know You’ve done so much for us this year, but we also want to come to You and say there’s many of us that are struggling this holiday season. May we base our expectations on Your expectations. May we be grateful for the gift that Jesus was in our life and is in our life, and the fact, God, that You sent Your only Son. And if that is the end of our gratitude, may we not feel shame in that being all we can celebrate. May You bring comfort to those who are mourning. May You bring freedom to those that are chained. And may You bring peace to those that are in pain. We pray all these things in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, it's episode 139 of the Human Hope Podcast.
0:07.0	And this is your host, Carlos Indiego,
0:11.0	and I get a good smile on the Manichibale, coming back at you
0:15.0	live from Nashville, Tennessee.
0:17.0	And I'm upside down, I am on the struggle bus.
0:20.6	Jet lag is real, especially coming back, I don't know, I feel like coming back from that
0:26.9	direction of the planet. You know what, you know what I realize after last week's
0:31.1	podcast, when like twice as many of you listened
0:35.4	than my regular podcast that I need to, um, well I think I realized a couple things.
0:41.3	I think I realized a lot of you want to continue learning just from my life and the
0:49.6	mistakes that I'm dealing with and going through.
0:53.0	I also learned that when my wife is on the podcast, all of you listen.
0:57.0	So maybe she should come back to do this more regularly.
1:01.0	I wanted today seeing that it is the 21st of December 2023. I put up a poll on my Instagram on Tuesday and let me give you the
1:17.0	final poll results. The poll was asking, this is exactly what I said, I said,
1:23.0	how are you feeling this holiday season?
1:26.0	This is mind-blowing.
1:28.0	The two options were, I'm feeling Christmas magic, grateful.
1:31.0	That was one option. The second one is I'm sad or lonely or
1:37.2	really stressed. Now when I when I actually click on and I looked at the results.
1:45.8	We are sitting at 50-50.
1:51.1	Now you would think with an account of almost 300,000 Instagram followers, there would be some
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