TRIGGERED! When the holidays feel stressful or draining
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Aaah, the holidays... a magical time of gathering with loved ones and celebrating our blessings. That is, ideally!
For many people, the holidays can be a lot more stressful, draining, or anxiety-inducing than the picture-perfect image of a loving family gathered around a fancy table. The holidays - whichever ones you choose to celebrate - can bring up mixed emotions or fill you with anticipatory dread, worry, and stress.
In this special holiday edition of TRIGGERED!, I talk about:
- the importance of breaking with old traditions that feel draining, confining, or dysfunctional
- creating your own traditions that feel more aligned and peaceful
- reinforcing boundaries with family members during the holidays
- liberating yourself from burdensome family expectations and using the holidays as an opportunity to practice saying NO
- ways to protect yourself energetically & physically if you choose to gather with family
You might find this resource helpful if you do get triggered at some point during the holidays. I created a guide on 10 Ways to Get Untriggered Quickly, which you can download here:
https://mailchi.mp/de778241c913/triggered-ep-21
I can't thank you enough for tuning in to this podcast... your presence makes it all worthwhile. I hope this episode supports you in having a peaceful, stress-free holiday season.
To connect with me directly, please visit www.josephinehardman.com or https://instagram.com/healer.josephine
Music & editing by G. Demers
Inner Work 2021 All Rights Reserved.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher, |
| 0:13.0 | driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within. |
| 0:20.0 | To explore my work or connect with me, you can visit josephinehardman.com. |
| 0:25.0 | If you feel called to support the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:30.8 | I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:38.3 | Now, on to the episode. |
| 0:44.3 | The holiday season is fast approaching. |
| 0:48.3 | It's November right now as I'm recording and posting this episode. So I wanted to do a special holiday edition |
| 0:56.9 | of Triggered to talk about what you can do when you find the holidays difficult or stressful |
| 1:03.1 | or perhaps emotionally challenging or draining. I don't know that anything I'm going to say in this |
| 1:10.4 | episode is going to be |
| 1:11.8 | totally new to you, but I do hope that these points and reminders are going to |
| 1:18.6 | serve as good and grounding advice to help you move through the holidays, maybe make it |
| 1:25.7 | through the holidays, as best you can with as much of your |
| 1:29.9 | sanity and well-being and mental health intact. I know also that there could be for you some |
| 1:38.3 | really amazing memories involving holidays, or you might find certain aspects of the holidays whichever once you celebrate |
| 1:46.0 | really beautiful and meaningful and full of happiness and that's really great if you do |
| 1:52.0 | and it also doesn't mean that you can have some mixed emotions about the holidays |
| 1:58.0 | or that other aspects of the holidays are still not challenging or draining for you emotionally, spiritually, or physically. |
| 2:07.6 | As with anything else, it's okay to have mixed feelings about the holidays and about the expectations that might be placed on you or that you place on yourself around the holidays. |
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