Hello, and welcome back to the Self-Healer Soundboard.

Seeing as the holidays are upon us and quickly approaching, we thought it most appropriate

to devote today's episode to talking about the holiday season, the elephant in the room

really.

This brings up a lot of past tradition, memories, grief, a lot of feelings and emotions for

so many people, and we really want to honor creating a space to make the holidays your

own and really create a new environment, almost a new ritual, kind of piggybacking on our

episode that released last week, the importance of rituals in our lives for nourishing our

soul and how we can really translate that into this holiday season.

I think a great place to start and piggybacking on our last episode on ritual.

I think it's holiday time where a lot of us are challenged in terms of exploring or

recreating whatever those rituals are and oftentimes many of us do that in relation with

family and holidays really simply become a time where a lot of us return home to those

earliest relationships, to those earliest environments, often to recreate our holiday

traditions in the way that we once did off throughout our childhood.

So in terms of why holidays, I think are really difficult for many of us, it's really a

spectrum from, right, how do I create space, how do I holiday honor these markings in time,

which quite universally many people are also honoring and of course, how do I honor traditions

and holidays when that does mean I'm returning home to early relationships and early environments,

which of course can be challenging for a lot of us.

Ever hear the word holiday, I immediately think of the connection to family or think

of connection in general as a holiday usually is an honoring of a time, a time that usually

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