Episode 301: Holidays in Divorce
The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast
Kate Anthony
4.4 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
I'm diving into a big topic this week—the holidays during divorce. It can feel like walking an emotional tightrope while trying to hold onto some joy. Whether it's your first holiday season after divorce, your last one as a family before separating, or you've been navigating holidays in divorce for a while, it's a time that stirs up all the emotions.
Wherever you are in this process, I want you to know, that you're not alone. And let's be real, were the holidays stress-free before divorce? Probably not. This episode isn't just about surviving the holidays—it's about reclaiming them in a way that works for you and your kids. Get emotionally prepared, collaborate where it counts, and make choices that put your kids at the heart of it all.
In this episode, I dive into:
- Self-care survival to ensure you're showing up for yourself and your kids
- Creating new traditions that align with who you are now
- Navigating the tricky question of whether to celebrate together "for the kids"
- Practical co-parenting strategies for gift-giving, scheduling, and prioritizing your children
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate Anthony, your divorce survival guide, and I'm here to help you navigate |
| 0:22.8 | some of the roughest waters you've ever swum in and answer some of your toughest questions. |
| 0:28.5 | I've been to hell and back, and now it's my mission in life to help you get to the other |
| 0:33.9 | side of this process with your sanity and your heart intact. |
| 0:45.9 | Hey everyone, welcome back. So today we're going to be talking about holidays in divorce. |
| 0:57.2 | 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 |
| 1:02.5 | this, then you are human. And like, we all have really, really big feelings about holidays in general. |
| 1:14.8 | But then if this is your first holiday since separating or maybe it's, you know, it's going to be |
| 1:23.3 | your last holiday as a intact married family, you're going to have a lot of really big feelings |
| 1:31.3 | about it. If it's your first holiday as a divorced family, your kids are going to have a lot of |
| 1:38.4 | feelings about it. So I think it's really important to just acknowledge that this is, this is an emotionally turbulent time. |
| 1:48.0 | You know, like I said, the, the holidays are an emotionally turbulent time in the best of, in the happiest of families. |
| 1:56.3 | But with what you're going through and wherever you happen to be in this process, this is a |
| 2:04.8 | really, really emotionally rocking time. |
| 2:09.1 | So I just want you to know that you're not alone if you're looking forward and you're |
| 2:15.5 | dreading it. |
| 2:16.7 | If you're scared, if you're feeling alone, if all of the things that you're looking forward and you're dreading it, if you're scared, if you're feeling |
| 2:18.3 | alone, if all of the things that you're right on target. |
| 2:23.8 | And I know that sucks and it's gross, but it is the truth. |
| 2:28.7 | Let's just accept that as the reality and then do our best to prepare for it. There's a lot of loneliness |
| 2:40.5 | that we feel as divorced people in the holidays, partly because we might actually be spending time |
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