Managing Family Dysfunction During the Holiday Season With Trakida Maldonado

Live Happy Now

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Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Holidays are the time for gathering with family and that can often be stressful. But having a good strategy in place can help make the season run more smoothly. This week, host Paula Felps talks with Trakida Maldonado, a licensed professional counselor for SonderMind who brings more than a decade of clinical experience to the table. In this episode, Trakida offers actionable advice for navigating common holiday situations with family members, setting boundaries before your holiday gatherings, and how to make the holidays a little bit easier on everyone — no matter what your situation is. In this episode, you’ll learn: How to handle family gatherings when your relationships aren’t going well. Managing the expectations of your extended family to make the holidays a positive experience for children. Tips for setting boundaries and managing conflict at gatherings.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 447 of Live Happy Now.
0:08.1	What would the holiday season be without a little family dysfunction?
0:12.5	Well, actually, nobody knows, but this week's guest wants to help us find out.
0:18.0	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm sitting down with Trichita Maldonado, a licensed
0:23.5	professional counselor with Sondermind who has more than a decade of clinical experience.
0:29.1	She's joining me to talk about why our mental health takes such a hit during the holidays
0:33.2	and the role that families play in increasing our holiday anxiety and conflict.
0:38.0	Then she'll tell us what we can do about it.
0:40.6	Let's have a listen.
0:42.7	Trichita, thank you for sitting down with me today.
0:45.4	Thank you, Paula, for having me.
0:47.6	This is a fun time to talk because it's the holiday season,
0:51.8	and it is a really challenging time for a lot of people. So I guess to kick
0:55.7	things off, can you talk about why our mental health takes such a hit during the holiday season?
1:01.2	Well, Paula, as you and I all know that during the holidays, we are expected to just have so many,
1:07.5	so many people have expectations of us, our family, our children, nieces, nephews.
1:13.2	So during that time, it's already a very stressful time. And when we bring in traditions around
1:20.8	that, it can create a lot of negative emotions and stress. So that is why during the holiday season is very, very stressful for so
1:30.5	many individuals because there is so much that is put on us all at one time. Yeah, and we've
1:36.3	also got that end of the year coming up. So if you're in business, a lot of times it becomes
1:41.4	a very busy time there too because people are trying to get things
1:45.3	wrapped up for the end of the year absolutely business you know closing out the year you know work
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