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

We are currently in the midst of holiday season, and that means we are getting a lot of direct

requests from you, the listener or viewer, to devote some of these episodes to navigating

the holiday season, healing during the holiday season with ourselves and those around us.

So today's episode was a particular request from a viewer on how to deal with emotional

hangovers in the holiday season, particularly coming off of being with family or loved ones

during the holiday season.

A great place, I think, to start for all of us is to acknowledge what an emotional hangover

is.

And if you've listened to our work, if you've listened to these episodes before, you hear

Jenna and I often speak about emotions living in the body.

So very much like I think when we hear the term hangover, we often think after drinking,

the physical effects, the headache, the nausea, the depleted energy, whatever it may or

may not be for each of you, and very similarly, because emotions are sensations, they map

onto things in our body that are happening.

A lot of times it can feel very similar.

We can have physical after effects, after we spend time with others where there are a lot

of emotions that might get activated for us.

And of course, around the holiday time, and a lot of us are returning home for visits

for, you know, to celebrate the holiday within those family units.

It's really understandable that a lot of emotions get activated.

And then we do wake up the next day or days later, and we feel that physically in our bodies.

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