Thriving Through the Holidays: A Masterclass in Boundaries & Self-Care | Ep 389
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The holidays don’t have to mean burnout, digestive chaos, and throwing all your healthy habits out the window. They can be fun AND joyful too! In this episode, Erin shares part of a powerful masterclass from TFN practitioner Nicole Antes, FHP-C, who offers practical strategies to help you stay grounded, nourished, and calm throughout the busiest time of the year.
You’ll learn how to ditch the all-or-nothing mindset with the “eat what you want, add what you need” approach, prep smart for travel with supportive snacks and supplements, and build daily routines like walking, breathwork, and screen-free time to support your nervous system and energy levels.
Women are so often the caretakers, the peacekeepers, and the chronic “yes-sayers”. Putting yourself first can feel hard, but the holiday season is actually the perfect time to set boundaries and practice self-care!
In this episode:
- The simple “eat what you want, add what you need” mindset Nicole uses to enjoy holiday desserts
- Why saving up for a big holiday meal by skipping breakfast or lunch can actually make digestion, energy, and cravings worse
- The yummy protein-rich snacks, electrolytes, and digestion aids Nicole packs in her holiday travel toolkit
- How herbal teas with lemon balm, passion flower, skullcap, or holy basil can keep your stress in check
- The importance of walking after meals to aid blood sugar and digestion
Resources mentioned:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | eat what you want, add what you need. So as you're going through the holiday season, if there is |
| 0:04.1 | something that you want to eat, it might not be the healthiest thing on your plate, but you enjoy it |
| 0:08.9 | and you are happy eating it. You can add that to your plate and then focus on adding in other |
| 0:14.0 | nourishing ingredients that you know your body needs, that you know you feel good eating. That way, |
| 0:18.9 | you have a little bit of that balance. It doesn't need to be a strict style of eating where you feel like you are denying yourself |
| 0:26.6 | things that you want to enjoy. |
| 0:28.3 | I often find that people do better with this mindset because you're not having that restriction |
| 0:32.4 | that's leading to you, maybe in the end, like, overeating something that if you had just had a serving of it when you |
| 0:39.6 | wanted it and got that fix, it can be a lot more supportive that way. |
| 0:44.0 | Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K, because we do things |
| 0:47.5 | a little differently around here. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience as a functional |
| 0:53.1 | nutritionist and mindset coach, |
| 0:55.1 | creating a new model that I call intuitive functional medicine, where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of your body. |
| 1:02.9 | This is where science meets self-trust. Your body already knows how to heal, and this show is going to show you how. |
| 1:09.9 | If you're looking for new ways of thinking |
| 1:11.6 | about your health, be sure to follow and share with the friend because you never know whose life |
| 1:15.8 | you might change. Hello, everybody. Today's episode is about thriving through the holidays. |
| 1:23.7 | We were considering creating a healthy holiday guide for all of you guys. But when I pulled you on |
| 1:29.7 | Instagram and asked what you needed, I was totally expecting to hear things like holiday recipes, |
| 1:34.9 | but what you actually wanted to know about and what you needed help with was how do I stay |
| 1:40.1 | calm with all of the holiday chaos? So I thought it would be just a really good thing to |
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