Dealing with Holiday Dread Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder

I love this topic because it's so real and authentic. It's when we don't sugar coat things. Yes, the holidays can be about vegan Christmas cookies, presents,  trees and lights and all of these beautiful aspects.

However, there is another aspect of the holidays, which of course is stress, including financial stress if you have a huge amount of people that you typically get presents for. There is rushing around, there's drama within families and all sorts of things. We don't want to pretend that they're not there.

Of course we want to embrace it, which is really this whole concept of wholeness. It's not all just about the shiny pretty stuff, but also about the shadow side and the parts that throw up a lot of triggers and feelings for us. To really equip ourselves with tools and techniques so that we are able to move through the holidays as gracefully and as lightly as possible, and feel our best.

In contrast, I find when we pretend that things aren't stressful or that things are just so when they're not, we abandon and shut down part of ourselves. We don't acknowledge parts of ourselves. And of course our wholeness is part of our power. It's our ability to look at everything and to deal with it that continues to make us stronger and stronger.