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Hello and welcome back, my name sustainable.

Hello and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 327 of sustainable minimalists.

Welcome to part two of Boundaries Week.

On Tuesday's episode, we discussed

Setting Gifting Boundaries.

And on today's show, we are discussing the why and the how between setting boundaries around all things holidays.

The holidays obviously surprised to no one can be a stressful time of year. There's the baking, the shopping,

there's the million things on our to-do list, there's the holiday parties, the

intrusive personal questions, there's the awkward conversations around the

dinner table, I could go on and on. It's no surprise then that a 2021 study by

Sesame found that three and five Americans feel that their mental health is negatively impacted by the

holidays and 60% report an increase in anxiety and 52% feeling an increase in depression during the holiday season.

So in today's show we're doing a bunch of things.

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