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90. Tips for Triggers (Holiday Edition!)

Dec 11, 2024

The holiday season can bring a whirlwind of triggers, especially related to food, family, and finances. The hosts share personal stories, offering insights on navigating emotional challenges with self-compassion and awareness. They emphasize the importance of preparing for festive gatherings, addressing the pressures of gift-giving, and promoting emotional connections over materialism. Listeners learn how to reframe their holiday experiences through trust and intentionality, ensuring that joy prevails amidst the chaos.

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Recognizing and preparing for common holiday triggers—food, family, and finances—can help individuals maintain control and agency in their experiences.

Utilizing techniques like 'future memories' can foster positive family interactions and alleviate anticipatory anxiety during emotionally charged gatherings.

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Understanding Holiday Triggers

The discussion highlights that food, family, and finances serve as significant triggers during the holiday season. These triggers can evoke feelings of anxiety or discomfort, which often stem from socialized expectations and personal histories. The hosts emphasize the importance of recognizing these triggers and preparing oneself mentally beforehand, illustrating the concept with the analogy of carrying an umbrella when it rains. By setting intentions before entering potentially triggering environments, individuals can maintain a sense of control and agency in their reactions.

Intro

3min

Navigating Emotional Triggers During Holidays

11min

Navigating Holiday Emotional Triggers

11min

Navigating Triggers and Financial Pressures During the Holidays

2min

Reimagining Holiday Gifting

7min

The Essence of Love and Connection During the Holidays

4min

The holiday season is in full force and you might be finding yourself amidst trigger after trigger! Or maybe you're dreading the final week of the year because of all the obligations you need to meet for others, not to mention the stress you put on yourself to have a "perfect" holiday season!

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Although this time is advertised to be merry and bright, we all know that it's also a time of familiar stress and age-old emotional triggers...possibly causing you to feel guilt, anxiety, regret or sadness.

In this episode, we dive into the three most common triggers of the season: FOOD, FAMILY, FINANCES. Between both of us, we have had our fair share of triggers (holidays or not) with respect to the 3 F's and share our personal experiences navigating them.

This conversation is ideal even if it's not currently the holiday season because the way we move through and heal from triggers is the same all year round - compassionately and warmly relating to your internal experience with acceptance. We are here to offer you ways to prepare, manage, and move through these triggers consciously and with intention. Rather than letting these triggers take over your joy, we suggest simple perspective shifts to remind you of your power to choose how you experience this season.

This episode is for you if you want to approach the holidays with trust in yourself, knowing that getting triggered doesn’t have to ruin your holiday experience. You are bigger than your triggers, and with these mindset shifts, you can create a holiday season that feels grounded, intentional, and meaningful.

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