TAKE THIS PERSONALLY: The Other Side of The Holidays: Real Voices, Real Struggles
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 9.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The holidays can be magical: full of twinkly lights, sweet treats, and time with people we love. But they can also shine a spotlight on grief, change, loneliness, and the complicated emotions so many of us quietly carry this time of year. In this episode, Morgan shares vulnerable listener voice notes about the real struggles happening behind the highlight reels. From divorce, illness, mental health battles, and career changes to navigating grief after losing parents, partners, or friends, these stories remind us we’re never as alone as we think.
Morgan opens up about her own mixed year and responds to each message with empathy and honesty, creating space for anyone who’s simply doing their best to make it through the season.
If this time of year feels heavy, messy, bittersweet, or complicated… this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:18.2 | Take this personally. |
| 0:20.2 | It was the same time last year where I decided to do an episode that addressed a lot of holiday struggles. |
| 0:28.9 | And it was one that I didn't realize so many of us needed. |
| 0:32.9 | Christmas is my favorite time of year. |
| 0:34.8 | I love the warm lights. |
| 0:36.3 | I love the yummy treats and spending time with |
| 0:40.3 | family and friends and going to holiday pop-up bars where there's all kinds of pretty sparkly |
| 0:45.7 | decorations. And I put up my Christmas decorations way earlier than the world approves of because I can't |
| 0:52.4 | wait for the season to come. |
| 1:00.0 | But what I realized in doing that episode and gearing up to do that first episode was how much this holiday also means grief and sorrow and sadness and anger |
| 1:06.7 | and comes with many more emotions than just joy. |
| 1:11.5 | And so I had done that episode in hopes to bring people together even more in a season |
| 1:16.6 | that's meant to bring people together, but not through the happiness and the lights and |
| 1:21.0 | the presence, but through things that are hard. |
| 1:24.7 | And you guys all shared so many things about your lives and you've done it this |
| 1:28.3 | year again in audio form so people can hear your voices through the things that you've gone through |
| 1:34.4 | and I cannot wait to share these things that you've shared with me and been vulnerable enough to |
| 1:39.4 | open up so that other people can feel less alone through similar things they may be facing. |
| 1:47.0 | And I know that not only with Christmas, New Year's follows soon after, and that means people |
| 1:54.7 | are going to be posting a lot of highlight reels, a lot of things that you're going to see |
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