Holiday Survival Tip #5: Allow Yourself To Feel
Dec 20, 2022
CONTINUING my weekly series on how to stress less and thrive more through this holiday season. No matter how you celebrate, there seems to always be an additional stress component this time of year. Getting together with family, work parties, and having house guests, are all situations that come with their own challenges. This series will take us into the New Year and offer tips to move through the season seamlessly.
𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐢𝐩 # 𝟓: 𝐀𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥. This past weekend, as I worked through a lot of my own challenging emotions, I started to plan this blog. The holidays are full of conflicting emotions: joy, pain, elation, anger, sorrow, hopefulness, hopelessness, love, feeling unloved…and the list could go on. We are sometimes so very excited to be with the ones we love…as well as maybe NOT feeling so excited. We are missing those we are apart from and cannot celebrate with, and we grieve those we have lost.
And sometimes we just want to have a little alone time to process these feelings that are arising or drink a cup of coffee or tea in peace.
When dealing with difficult or strong emotions, one of the main concepts to remember is that we are not trying to get “rid” of any feeling or emotion. We only want to understand and allow it.
Yet how can we work through some of these more challenging feelings without putting a lid on the holiday fun or ending up completely overwhelmed? Here are five tips for navigating challenging emotions at the holidays and beyond:





I hope you enjoy this series and if you want to take stressing less and thriving more deeper, feel free to reach out!
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