Giving Yourself Grace During the Holidays
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
The holidays are here and so is the holiday stress. We have the financial strain, our children's high expectations, house guests, and maybe some family friction. Combine that with the fact that we eat more, drink more alcohol, and neglect ourselves. We're supposed to be enjoying the holidays, but instead we dread it.
But what if we approached holidays differently?
Today we talk about giving yourself grace during the holiday season. Men tend to be hyper-critical and beat themselves up over not being able to do everything perfectly. It's time to let that go. We're going to make mistakes. We're going to fall back into bad habits. We're not always going to be the perfect husband or father, and that's okay.
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| 0:00.0 | We are men. We are warriors. We are dads. Dads with a purpose. Dads with an edge. |
| 0:10.0 | We sharpen our skills so we can show up best for others. |
| 0:14.0 | We have one shot in life to be a dad. |
| 0:20.0 | Why not make it epic? |
| 0:28.7 | Hey, what's up guys? Hey, what's up guys? |
| 0:29.1 | Hey, welcome to Thursday Throwdown episode 132. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Larry Hagner. I'm your host and founder of the Dad Edge podcast, |
| 0:37.1 | formerly known as the Good Dad Project Podcast. |
| 0:39.6 | So I'm just going to riff here for maybe, I don't know, five to ten minutes on a subject that's near and dear to my heart, |
| 0:46.0 | and it's something that I've seen over the past three years since I've been doing the Dad Edge mission. |
| 0:53.9 | And that is this time of year. |
| 0:57.6 | This time of year, October, November, December. |
| 1:01.1 | I love it, and I hate it. |
| 1:04.4 | I'm just gonna say it. |
| 1:05.6 | I love it and I hate it. |
| 1:10.0 | The older I get, the more financially strained I feel when it comes to the holidays. |
| 1:18.3 | The more I feel like I have to live up to some image of perfection and have all these unrealistic expectations of myself. I also find myself |
| 1:29.5 | eating way worse than I normally would. And I also find myself in years past not this year |
| 1:37.2 | drinking more alcohol. I recently gave up alcohol for the for the next 18 months my |
| 1:40.8 | 10-year-old and I have a dare a challenge going on where he's not |
| 1:45.2 | drinking soda and I'm not drinking alcohol but in years past drinking alcohol more |
| 1:50.5 | at this time of year and And you just find that the happiness that's |
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