Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacy Toth of Real Everything.

I'm all about loving the skin you're in and being healthy inside and out.

And I'm Dr. Sarah Valentine of the paleomom.com.

I believe that scientific literacy is the key to improving public health. Welcome back to the whole view episode 428. We're going to be talking about navigating the holiday season, which during a global

pandemic might look a little different. This is one of the topics that I know has been top of mind for myself and our family and we wanted to make sure that we shared with you listeners some ideas that our families are talking about and the number one thing that I want to say about this show.

I know we're going to talk about a whole bunch of stuff, but everything in life is all about mindset and if you

approach this as an opportunity for new traditions that you can carry forward and

an opportunity to start, for example, celebrating sooner.

I'm gonna put my tree up like next week.

It can, potentially, that magic of the holidays can not be completely squelched but

maybe just look a little different and for me I'm trying to think of it as a way to add on to the traditions that our

family has instead of what's being taken away and so I just want to encourage

everybody as we talk about this.

You might be like, oh, grumble, I hadn't thought about that or, you know, whatever.

And I just, I hear you, I feel you, you're not alone. But the more that you can try to think about this from the perspective of

what positivity and good this can bring in your life, I think the better the outcome, right?

Like you're certainly not going to feel good about it

if you go in with a negative mindset.

I need to tell you a story,

because I love the idea of using this as like a motivator to actually extend the holiday season and extend the festivities, albeit at home.

We have a neighbor around the corner who has two skeletons like hanging out on their front porch for Halloween decorations.

And I realized after walking past them about the eighth time that they're not dressed as

...