Holiday Self-Care Survival Guide
Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women
English - December 13, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 111 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Alternative Health lettinggo meditation yoga anxiety depression healing overwork panic productivity selfcare Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, I’m focusing on self-care during the holidays. Specifically, I kick things off with my essay, “How to Survive Dysfunctional Family Get-Togethers (the Buddhist Version.)” It’s a perennial favorite, updated here to reflect some Buddhist teachings I love.
Then I go on to share my own thoughts about this all-important topic of self-care during the holiday madness.
Most of us know the holidays as a time to indulge, then stagger off to lose that extra weight/hangover/sudden shopping debt with a ‘wellness binge’ in the first weeks of the new year.
I’d like to humbly suggest something different. In this episode, I share some ideas about self-care during the holiday … specifically, how to rethink the usual routines to better honor ourselves.
Why not use parties as a way to check in with your feelings/values/desires/needs?
Why not treat those annual events you just have to do … yet again … as an opportunity to rethink the routines?
Can you notice how your own values may have evolved?
If nothing else, you’ll get much more deeply in touch with yourself – and you might even have a lot more fun. Because, yeah, this is a time of year when we’re soundly encouraged to have lots and lots of fun.
I’m taking a slightly more realistic approach here, because sometimes the holidays bring up grief, loneliness, anxiety and even depression. We don’t have to dwell on that – but it’s good to acknowledge that the ‘most wonderful time of the year’ can come with baggage.
And that’s perfectly fine. Even normal.
Happy Holidays my friend. I truly hope you find this useful … and you have a great one!
Suzanne Falter
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Suzanne’s essay, How to Get Along at Dysfunctional Family Get Togethers (the Buddhist Version)
ABOUT SUZANNE FALTER
Suzanne Falter hosts the Self-Care for Extremely Busy Women podcast where she brings better self-care to thousands of busy people each week in 98 countries around the globe. She also keynotes and leads corporate workshops and online programs on self-care. She is the author of The Extremely Busy Woman’s Guide to Self-Care (Sourcebooks.)