Managing Through The Holiday Season

https://youtu.be/T2iNfGcYAmE

Questions

1. How to keep healthy habits over the holidays?

• Self-Compassion

• Hydration

• Moderation

• Step Into Your Body Inuituion

• Dive Into Pleasure

• Awareness

• Find 2-Most Important Habits to Keep

2. Any tips for Coping with anxiety around the holiday season

• Journaling and asking why these feel

• Feel into your feels, feel you feels

• Set up tools in advance,

• Give yourself time to slow down

• Try going into things positive mindset/opening your mind

• It’s okay not to like everyone; release expectations

• Allow yourself NOT to GO

• Being present

3. Help with grief around the holidays 

• Find a support team to talk to

• Allow yourself to be positive – it’s okay to be okay

• Tap into the emotions you are feeling – name them

• You have permission to step back and feel

• Design your own tradition

• Find what you can handle

• Energy in Motion

• Feeling their presence of them, tapping into spirituality

• Honour your truth, no matter what that may be.

• Pre-prepare if the date is coming

4. How can I deal with triggering anniversaries over the holiday season?  

See above.

5. How do I stay in my routine?

• Adjust and shorten your routine

• Compress things

• Mix things up

• Make all days/tasks

• Bring family/friends into the routine

• Self-compassion

• Having multi mini versions of your routine

• Find what’s most important to you.

• Set boundaries and prepare.

• Invite family/friends to join you.

6. Tips for general holiday stress 

see above.

7. I lack any holiday spirit and don’t know what to do. Can you help? 

• Go see things that usually fill your spirit and bring you joy 
• Set your intentions
• Ask yourself, What doe holiday spirit mean to me?
• Open your mind to an untraditional holiday
• You aren’t alone in this; talk about it
• Dive into the why of this feeling.

8. I feel pressured to participate in all the holiday events, but I don’t want to. 

See the video above.

9. Winter/Holiday Blues – I’m tired of how dark it is already – PLEASE GIVE TIPS!

• Supplements
• Routine
• Cycles of nature; its okay to rest
• Be vulnerable
• self-compassion
• ask for help
• release control
• tap into what you know brings you joy, normally
• Adjust the workload (where and if you can)
• Honour where you are
• Get outside more
• Tap into resting more
• switch your story/mind frame