What Every Woman Needs To Know This Holiday Season

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Health & Fitness, Fitness, Body, Mindset, Movement, Health, Acceptance, Macros, Love, Positivity, Nutrition, Loss, Weight

5 • 965 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The holidays bring joy, connection, celebration, and memories. They also tend to bring stress, unpredictability, and that old tug-of-war between wanting to enjoy the moment and wanting to stay "on track." If you've ever gone into this season with good intentions, only to end up anxious, overwhelmed, or in the all-or-nothing spiral, this episode is for you.

I want to help you walk into this season with confidence and peace. You don't have to choose between enjoying the holiday and honoring your goals. There is a middle ground, and it feels really good when you find it.

Here is what you will learn:

How slowing down can actually move your progress forward
A realistic way to find balance without tracking every detail
A healthier mindset around food during the holidays
Why you never need to earn your rest, your meals, or your joy

If you've been feeling pressure to be perfect or fear of losing the progress you worked so hard for, this episode will help you shift your mindset so you can enjoy this season fully while still feeling grounded in your body and your habits.

If you loved this episode, you may also enjoy:
"OOPS I Ate Too Much": Here's the Holiday Mindset You Need

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0:00.0	Hey there, beautiful human. You're listening to Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Ledbetter,
0:05.4	a podcast where I empower you to just be you. With each episode, I dish you a dose of real talk
0:11.4	and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving
0:16.6	your authentic self. Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real. Let's get and let's go.
0:27.7	Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace Your podcast. Today I want to talk
0:32.1	about the holidays and sorry I'm not sorry that I continue to talk about the holidays over and over
0:36.3	again right now, but it's really
0:37.8	for good reason. It honestly doesn't feel fitting to ignore it right now and talk about something else,
0:42.4	because I know so many people struggle this time of year, and I know that these messages really are
0:48.7	ingrained into you because of the time of year. So many of you either have crazy anxiety about staying on track
0:55.3	or you struggle to stay on track. And there are simple and effective mindset shifts and tools
1:00.7	that I believe can be a complete game changer. So I don't want to be taught. I don't want to
1:04.7	stop talking about that because I actually want you to enjoy the holiday season this year.
1:09.1	And that is the main point that I'm trying to get across in these episodes. You should not have anxiety enjoy the holiday season this year. And that is the main point that I'm trying
1:11.2	to get across in these episodes. You should not have anxiety over the holidays about trying to do
1:16.2	everything perfect, but you shouldn't also feel like you have to fall off track. You can really
1:21.8	have the best of both worlds. There is a happy place in between. I want you to enjoy it, the travel, the family time, the food, the
1:29.0	memories. But I also want you to show yourself that enjoying the holidays doesn't mean that you
1:34.9	have to throw away your progress either. Let me know if this sounds something like you are just
1:40.4	feeling right now. Like you've spent months and months showing up. You've been tracking your
1:44.7	macros or at the very least tracking your protein. You've been building strength. You've been hitting
1:48.5	your goals. And now suddenly your schedule is super unpredictable the next couple weeks. You're
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