Hating Christmas and Body Memories
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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00:00 Rethinking Christmas
12:07 Body memories and trauma
42:35 Coping with the death of an abuser
50:42 Substance use addiction in a relationship
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October 16, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | So Rebecca, 15 minutes ago I was still sleeping. |
| 0:05.0 | And you never call me, so when I was like sitting outside your house and I saw you calling me, I was like, |
| 0:11.0 | what is going on? Yeah I woke up and I you know lazily looked at the |
| 0:17.3 | clock and realized that we were podcasting in five minutes and I called you and told you to give me another 15 but I only needed another |
| 0:27.7 | five really. |
| 0:28.7 | Very impressive. |
| 0:29.7 | You are wearing a hat. |
| 0:31.7 | Well it's for your sake that I'm wearing this hat but let's |
| 0:37.2 | get into it this email is from an honest patron she says I'm a long time |
| 0:42.3 | listener but this is my first time emailing in. |
| 0:45.6 | Here's my question. How do I stop being bothered by my husband's trauma |
| 0:51.1 | responses at Christmas? I have always loved Christmas and even though I have |
| 0:56.4 | been through a lot of trauma in childhood and my love for Christmas has been unwavering. My husband, |
| 1:01.6 | however, also experienced childhood trauma and Christmas is very hard for him. |
| 1:06.0 | My husband seems very grumpy, irritable, sulky, and rude on Christmas. |
| 1:11.0 | While I know in my mind that this is stemming from his pain, it almost ruins the holiday for me. |
| 1:19.2 | I end up being the fun one on Christmas and the only person making the day cheerful at all. |
| 1:26.0 | My husband and his family like that about me, they have told me this explicitly, but I feel as |
| 1:31.7 | though they benefit greatly by me bringing them up in mood |
| 1:36.2 | while I, while they are bringing me down. I feel so bad, but I am becoming resentful toward my husband for his attitude on Christmas. |
| 1:47.6 | I'm guessing it is because I haven't seen others model grace and acceptance of grumpiness and being down. |
| 1:55.0 | Sorry. |
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