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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the holidays. Let's talk about the stress

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Speaker 1: of the holidays. Let's talk about the emotion of the holidays.

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Speaker 1: Let's try to lock the door before we get robbed. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the holidays are here. It's a combination of the changing

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Speaker 1: of the seasons. If you're in a colder climate, daylight, savings, darkness.

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Speaker 1: You know, these things affect our lives as a result

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Speaker 2: We also eat differently, and the way that when we eat.

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Speaker 1: Differently, we can get more depressed, have more anxiety. If

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Speaker 1: you're drinking more, you're going to experience more anxiety and depression.

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Speaker 1: If you're eating more sugar, you're going to experience more

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Speaker 1: anxiety and depression. You're going to feel more anxious. The

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Speaker 1: holidays are coming. It's subconscious, it's conscious or making plans.

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Speaker 1: You're already bracing yourselves for who you're going to be seeing,

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Speaker 1: who you have to make plans with, who's not doing

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Speaker 1: what you need them to do, who you don't want

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Speaker 1: time with. You have to co exist with exes, and

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Speaker 2: It's kind of a shit show.

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Speaker 1: So this is the time when you have to reduce

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Speaker 1: your drinking ironically because it's the season for drinking. Increase

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Speaker 1: your hydration, start doing things that will calm you down,

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Speaker 1: taking walks, meditating, if possible, doing yoga. I just went

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Speaker 1: of these apps. I'm a little unhinged. I'm feeling it.

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Speaker 1: It's coming and everyone has their own relationship to it.

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Speaker 1: Some people have a relationship to it because of their divorce.

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Speaker 1: I have a relationship to it because of my divorce,

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Speaker 1: because I pretty much because I'm an orphan, because my

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Speaker 1: pertains to a very difficult divorce and custody situation. Because

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Speaker 1: the holidays triggers my childhood and what it was like,

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Speaker 1: want it to be, or gaslighted or pretend it doesn't exist.

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Speaker 1: I talk to Denise Richards, and I've talked on my

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Speaker 1: own about fake Christmas. Meaning let's say you're going through

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Speaker 1: you have to navigate going to someone's house that you

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Speaker 1: don't want to go to your kids not being.

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Speaker 2: With you, you.

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Speaker 1: Got to lock the door before you get rob You

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Speaker 1: have to make plans. You can't just wish the problem away.

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Speaker 1: If your kids can't be with you on Thanksgiving, do

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving on a Wednesday or Tuesday. If your kids, or

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Speaker 1: your husband or fiance or partner or friends can't be

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Speaker 1: with you on Christmas, do fake Christmas. Make Christmas Eve, Christmas,

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Speaker 1: make the twenty second Christmas, put the tree up on

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Speaker 2: Whatever works for you.

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Speaker 1: Do not try to fit into the constructs of a

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Speaker 1: Hallmark holiday. Market it in a different way. Make Christmas

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Speaker 1: the day after for fifty percent off. Whatever you need

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Speaker 1: to do. Also, get organized with the gifts. Can you

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Speaker 1: please write out a list, write everyone's name down, write

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you ever buy ahead. I buy ahead.

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Speaker 1: I've gone to the outlets in the past and bought

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Speaker 1: things on sale. I'll go online and buy things on sale.

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Speaker 1: is something that if you do now, it makes a

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Speaker 1: gift seem so much more expensive and so much more elevated.

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Speaker 1: But you have to do it in a timely fashion

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Speaker 1: so it arrives. Can you just sit down and get

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Speaker 1: Also, start baking of batches of cookies and send them,

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Speaker 1: sending gifts at Thanksgiving. I don't care the thought counts.

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Speaker 2: I'm doing me. I'm doing what works for me.

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Speaker 1: And the holidays are very stressful. So find your ways

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Speaker 1: to lock your door before you get robbed. Thanksgiving it's

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Speaker 1: coming up. How to avoid overeating, over drinking, over emoting.

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Speaker 1: It will move pretty quickly. You'll be sitting with family

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Speaker 1: that will trigger you. It's been a very polarizing election year.

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Speaker 1: This will be a conversation that will also trigger you.

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Speaker 1: What do I suggest. I suggest hydration. I suggest not

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Speaker 1: drink more. It almost feels like you're hydrating your body

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Speaker 1: mitigate this. In addition, get your played out, take a

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Speaker 1: Then if you throughout the day, it's sensible. You had

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Speaker 1: just do not need the stress and the aggravation. You

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Speaker 1: And if Thanksgiving isn't going to be what you remember

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Speaker 1: and exploding. I have literally spent I think two Thanksgivings

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Speaker 1: She doesn't love the Thanksgiving food, she doesn't love the

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Speaker 1: So yes, we're going to go for three nights to

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Speaker 1: feeling and that will give us what we need and

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Speaker 1: it works in relationships too. I believe when you're in

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Speaker 1: and reality are two very different things. So I just

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Speaker 1: suggest that you mentally and emotionally plan and prepare for

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Speaker 1: the holidays as much as you physically plan for the holidays. Thanks,

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Speaker 1: Happy holidays. Most persons went to the past, almost went

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Speaker 1: to the pastor