Holiday Home: A Kindness Mindset
The Girl Next Door Podcast
Kelsey Wharton
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
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We're wrapping up this year's Holiday Home series with an episode all about practicing a kindness mindset this season. We share what makes us feel grinchy and how we can make our way back to kindness amidst holiday stress. Plus we talk about specific ways we show kindness to people in our lives and community this time of year. Along the way we stumble into the controversial topic of to bake for neighbors or not.
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Our previous Holiday Home Episodes: Holiday Logistics, Holiday Favorites, and last year's Holiday Decor & Organization, Holiday Magic & Nostalgia, and the Christmas Explosion Aftermath.
Harney & Sons Decaf Hot Cinnamon tea
Erica mentions velvet pants -- we could not find a link but they are Pilco brand via Nuuly. These are similar.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. We're two former |
| 0:08.6 | next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh. We're inviting |
| 0:12.9 | you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while. Hey friend. Hey friend. Today we're finishing |
| 0:18.5 | our holiday home series talking all about holiday kindness and practicing a kindness mindset this season. Today we're finishing our holiday home series talking all about holiday kindness |
| 0:21.6 | and practicing a kindness mindset this season. And we're going to dive right into our conversation |
| 0:27.0 | today. Okay, on the one hand, I think we can all go into the season wanting to feel generous |
| 0:33.4 | and kind, but then someone cuts you off in a crowded parking lot or a snippy with you at the |
| 0:39.0 | store and you can get to feeling like the Grinch real fast. So can we talk about the things around |
| 0:44.8 | the holidays that get in the way of feeling kind? Number one, and probably the worst offender, |
| 0:50.9 | in my opinion, is overstimulated children. Oh, just, it's just a lot. |
| 0:56.7 | Even the lead-up, you're like, what is going on? |
| 0:59.1 | Oh, yeah, they see all the decorations. |
| 1:01.1 | They know it's coming. |
| 1:02.1 | Like, I think that it's just real hard to deal with the extra energy and the extra kind |
| 1:07.6 | of disregulation that comes with this time of year. |
| 1:10.5 | So that's one thing for me. |
| 1:12.3 | I think for me feeling frantic or disorganized or like rushing in any kind of way |
| 1:17.3 | just leaves me with very little bandwidth for, you know, when those things happen. |
| 1:21.8 | Or like if you're rushing, the person cutting you off in traffic is going to be much more offensive. |
| 1:25.5 | Exactly. |
| 1:26.3 | Oh, I have time. |
| 1:27.1 | Whatever. |
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