The Holiday Season's Most Overlooked Gift (Monday Moment ep. 833)

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John O'Leary

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever had a holiday hangover?

No, I am not referring to the kind you might get from staying out too late or having one too many drinks.

I mean how you feel after all the build-up of Christmas- the preparation, the cooking, the eating, opening of presents, and racing to parties- comes to an end often leaving you a little tired, a good bit in debt, and emotionally beat down.

Several years ago, a woman with nine and a half decades of experience gave me some advice to help prevent that type of hangover from starting in the first place. Let me explain.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday morning moments with John O'Leary.
0:19.3	We're going to kick off this episode with a question.
0:22.6	Have you ever had a holiday hangover? Now, I'm not referring to the kind you might get from
0:28.8	staying out a little too later, having maybe won too many drinks. I mean, how do you feel
0:34.2	after all the build of Christmas, the preparation, the cooking, the eating, the opening of presents, and the racing of parties comes to an end, often leaving you a little tired in a good bit of debt and maybe even a little emotionally beat down?
0:51.4	Have you ever had that type of holiday hangover?
1:00.6	Well, several years ago, a woman with nine and a half decades of experience gave me some advice to help prevent that type of hangover from starting in the first place.
1:05.5	At our family Christmas Eve celebration that year, my parents hosted their six children,
1:11.9	their spouses,
1:20.6	at that point 17 grandchildren, a few friends. And then my at that point 94-year-old grandmother,
1:27.3	Caddy, she's one of my heroes. Katty was an amazing woman, an incredible human being. And before dinner, I had a wonderful opportunity to spend 15 minutes in conversation just with Grandma.
1:34.2	What a moment.
1:35.8	Grandma's short-term memory was beginning to fade, but her zest for life, her contagious joyfulness, and her natural beauty remained perfectly intact. During our conversation,
1:48.1	I asked about her childhood, how she met my grandpa, what it was like when he left to fight in
1:54.5	World War II in the Pacific, what it was like for her raising two kids in the 1950s and some of her
2:00.7	favorite memories since then.
2:03.1	I then asked what advice she'd give to me as I continued along this path in life.
2:08.9	She looked at me and remember, there's little grandkids running around the Christmas trees up in the corner,
2:13.6	kitchens filled with smoke from cookies that were in the oven a little bit too long.
2:17.8	She patted my right leg, and she responded thoughtfully.
2:22.3	John, seems like today everyone is so busy racing.
2:27.2	All that racing means they're busy doing things, yeah,
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