What's up, Badi Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary things,

and I get to share her story with you.

So let's go.

Buckle up as we're going to get real and dive into the shit nobody talks about.

Welcome to the Batty B Club.

Beautiful. Welcome to the Batty B Club. How do I manage tense family relationships during the holidays?

How to deal with children who got overgifted this year. Why do we get so sad after this time?

How do you overcome that? What do you do to get motivated to return back to your workplace?

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch. On today's episode, we have

myself. In fact, I wasn't even going to post a podcast this week because it's Christmas.

And I thought, we really all just need a week off, especially for myself. But then

something happened. I got tons of messages about how do I manage tense family relationships

during the holidays, or people reaching out to me telling me about things that happen during their holiday seasons or

dinners with their families. Now, I've been pretty open with my situation about my family. I grew up

in a high conflict, very chaotic upbringing. And although I have a lot of happy memories with my

siblings, it's hard because we all, even though come from the same parents and had pretty much the same upbringing, all five of us are drastically different.

And it really wasn't until I started going through my divorce in 2018 when I put

myself into therapy. But it was a different kind of therapy, not the normal therapy that I was

doing with eating disorder and behavioral stuff, it was divorce, boundaries,

something that I never really explored before. And what I realized was I had no boundaries.

I started reading a ton of books, listening to audibles, listening to podcasts.

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