Letting Go of Perfect-Holiday-Mom Pressure (For Real This Time): Episode 290

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

When you feel the pressure to do, make, or be something this holiday season, pause and ask yourself three questions. Does this TRULY matter to me? Is the PROCESS joyful or meaningful (or is it that others make the product look so easy)? And–a big one–what if I DON’T? In Episode 290 Meagan and Sarah offer gut-checks on some of the biggest pressures moms feel during the holiday season–from magazine-worthy living rooms to the mental load of shopping for (and giving gift ideas to) a large extended family–and offer concrete tips for releasing yourself from expectations of perfection in pursuit of a peaceful season. Join us, friends!

As always, our holiday episodes often make brief mention of magical night visitors. If you have curious ears about, you’ve been warned!

LINKS MENTIONED:

The “What if I don’t?” question comes from Sarah’s conversation with Whitney Hawthorne in our November Voices episode
Meagan talked about her interview with Ashley Brown for December’s Voices episode
Join our special Facebook Community for The Mom Hour Listeners (make sure to answer the questions to be approved!)
Be sure to check out our blog, where Meagan is doing a 25 day holiday pep talk
Past episodes that are similar in tone to this one:
December Intentions For Busy Moms
Moms Deserve A Magical Holiday, Too

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to
0:05.7	grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that
0:10.5	motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement.
0:14.0	And remind you that it's really all going to be okay.
0:16.4	We're not experts. We're parents who've been there.
0:18.6	We're not perfect. We're real.
0:20.2	Welcome to the mom hour.
0:21.6	Hey everyone and welcome to episode 290 of the Mom Hour.
0:26.0	I am Sarah Powers here as always with Megan Francis.
0:29.0	Hey Megan.
0:30.0	Hey, Sarah.
0:31.0	So we have a big topic today and I was laughing a little bit as we prepared this because this is our sixth year I guess of holiday content and we end up always coming back to this right this is about
0:46.0	how to resist and kind of almost protect yourself from the pressure to be the quote-unquote
0:51.5	perfect holiday mom and while it's not intentionally
0:55.3	an annual thing it I guess it kind of is and that's that's just because we all need
1:00.1	to hear this right? Yeah and I also want to point out that this is what your
1:03.9	13th year Christmas holiday as a mom and my 24th holiday as a mom and sometimes I
1:10.3	still need these reminders so like this stuff doesn't go away like the culture
1:13.8	around us changes constantly so even when you think you've got it figured out
1:17.4	there's something new that gets kind of externally thrown at you and you have to really like you really have to be able to go back and
1:26.2	double down on your values and like what you believe to be true about yourself
1:30.1	and your parenting and like what matters to you and sometimes like you have to do it it's like a
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