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Hello and welcome to a welcome back to trying to get to care.

If you're new here, my name's Ashley, and I upload every single Monday, and I'm just so happy

to have you. Now that we're in the thick of the holiday season, I want to talk about social anxiety

during the holidays because I'm someone who definitely has struggled with this. I still kind of struggle

with this, and I know so many of you

also struggle with this. The month of December can be so overwhelming and be so overstimulating.

There's so much going on. And it can be someone who has social anxiety's worst nightmare.

So in this episode, I want to give you a guide on how to survive the

holiday season. We're going to talk about going back to your hometown and socializing with people

that you haven't seen in a couple years, overcoming the fear of small talk, how to avoid and

redirect conversations about your body and food, and how to ground yourself in overstimulating

settings like parties and

holiday shopping at the mall. But before we get into today's episode, I just want to let you know

that I'm doing vlogmas on my TikTok. So if you're into vlogs or you just want to see the behind

the scenes of the podcast or my life, my TikTok and my Instagram are linked in the show notes. But let's get into today's

episode. I currently live in, well, next to my hometown, I ended up buying a house that's practically

in my hometown. It's like on the line. It's on the cusp between the town I live in now and then

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