Good evening, everybody. How are y'all doing? Welcome to the show. We got a great show plan for you,

kind of picking up a little bit of a part two from what we were talking about last night. DMs always

open. So we've got a DM for us, dropping the DMs on our Loveline IG page, questions you got,

topics you want covered. We want to hear from you. Let us know. And past episodes, always over at we are channelcue.com. So last night we were talking a little

bit about loneliness, how that comes to be, ways to cope with that. So tonight's a little bit

of a part two. We're going to be grounding that topic, but in the holidays, because a lot of us

for a multitude of reasons, whether it is toxic family members, things related to COVID or

finances, we might be spending the holidays alone.

So where last night we were talking a little bit about how to deal with loneliness. Tonight we're

going to talk about how to deal with it for the holidays. Really falling under the rubric of we,

I say this every holiday season since COVID started. Things are going to be different. That doesn't

mean they are bad or canceled. It just means we

have to get familiar with a little more flexibility. And for some of those, it's about spending

the holidays alone. Some people, that's very familiar for them. They have often lived out of state

or out of country and maybe not had the time off or the finances. Like I said, others have toxic

family members where due to body shaming, transphobia, homophobia,

or racism, they can't go home or maybe they're in recovery and there's going to be drinking

and drug use, maybe some family violence. And for others, maybe they're just like, heck, I'm going to

keep it, I'm going to do it all self-care. It's just going to be me this holiday. I've done that where I said, listen, I don't need the celebration or the parties.

Just need to rest.

And I want to advocate for that.

That before we even get into the main topic, remember, if our lives are very busy, it's important for our weekends or our vacations or our holidays to sometimes be nothing but rest and restoration, make them restorative.

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