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Hi everyone and welcome to this week's mother kind moment. Thank you for being here.

Moment is your place for calm connection and maybe

a shift in perspective before the crazy week ahead. This week's moment is with me. If you listen

last week, then you will know that for the next couple of episodes, I am going to be talking about

Christmas and hopefully giving you some ideas and new perspective

on how we can make it easier for ourselves this year.

This week I want to talk about how we can feel less frantic, stressed, overwhelmed by the to-do list

and feel calmer that we have less to do but still get that feeling

that we want around Christmas which of course is of joy and love and connection. It is so easy

to get swept up in the to-do list. The reality is, well my reality is, so I wonder if it's

yours too, is that there is just a lot

to do around Christmas, particularly if you're hosting, which I am this year. I think there's so much

external pressure and internal pressure, and I'm going to talk about that shortly. Also, you know,

we know that as women, we do pick up the majority of the invisible and emotional

labour in the home. And that is no different at Christmas. It can feel like it just falls all to

us. So I want to share some ideas and tools today in this very short episode to help you

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