Hey guys, welcome to the podcast. I hope you're well. I'm currently in my new home. It's been a long time

coming and I know I've chatted on it about the podcast for months waiting to get my new home,

finally here all by myself. I'm pretty proud of myself. But I have had the flu like the last week.

So it only feels like I've just moved in because honestly,

the first four days I was just in the dark, kind of just fragile. Anyways, I want to talk about

Christmas on this podcast because it's in a couple of days and I think a few words of wisdom is

always nice and to feel understood. Now I'm going to talk about it in a few different ways.

So some you may resonate with, some you may not.

The first part is going to be talking about like

Christmas, my inner child, the way that like, you know, my feelings around it.

And then the second half is going to be food.

So if you struggle with like food stuff, then hold on for the second part as well.

So basically where it all came from was I had therapy yesterday and I asked her, what should I do

for Christmas?

It's in a week and I've ignored the situation because basically my parents are away with my sister

in America. So I've got like no family over here. And so I was like, right, I'm in my own place

and I got no family. What am I supposed to do? And I just hadn't thought about it. I kept ignoring

it. I was like, I don't care. I'll think about it

when I get there. And all my friends have been asking me for weeks like Anna, what you're doing for Christmas yet? And I'm like, stop asking me. I don't know. Because it was like not stressing me out, but like, I don't know, nothing. And as I was talking to my therapist, I started crying. And I was like, if I'm being honest, like, I think Christmas is basically

like, not a touchy subject for me, but like a little bit harder growing up. And it was like the little

girl inside of me that was crying, not adult Anna. And that's okay sometimes for your inner child to like

just let them have a little cry. But I basically explained to her like how Christmas used to be.

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