68: The Holiday Survival Guide (Energy & Sanity Included!)

The holiday season doesn't have to leave you exhausted, overwhelmed, and promising yourself you'll "get back on track" in January. In this timely episode of Group X Appeal, Kimberly and Terry reveal a completely different approach to managing the emotional, mental, and physical energy rollercoaster that comes with this season. What if you could navigate stress, packed schedules, family dynamics, and festive indulgence without losing yourself in the process?

What You'll Discover:

• Why "All or Nothing" Fails in December - How consistency looks different during the holidays (and why that's perfectly okay)
• Boundaries as Wellness - Permission to protect your energy without guilt or obligation to run yourself into the ground
• The Fitness Flexibility Framework - Why shorter workouts, substitutions, and morning walks count just as much as your regular routine
• Emotional Energy First - Understanding how your mood and mindset determine your physical energy more than anything else
• Compassion Over Perfection - How staying connected to movement matters infinitely more than staying perfect through the chaos

Whether you're a fitness professional trying to model balance for your clients or an enthusiast who just wants to make it through the holidays feeling good, this episode delivers the permission and tools you need. 

The holidays are here whether you're ready or not—but you get to choose how you show up for them.

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Transcript

The holidays don't need to drain you if...

you learn how to manage your energy, they can actually Fuel you. And today we're giving you simple, practical ways to stay energized and sane this season. So stay tuned if you could use a little extra holiday balance.

Kimberly/terry (00:51)
Welcome back to group X appeal. Terry Shorter here with Kimberly Spreen Glick my partner in crime. This is episode number 68. Wow. We're getting up there. We are moving and grooving and guess what? We are right in the heart of the holiday season. Happy holidays. Happy holidays. Happy holidays. Yes. And today we're tackling the emotional, the mental and physical energy roller coaster that comes with the holidays. It's so true. So this is going to be your survival guide for stress.

Schedules travel indulgence and family dynamics all the things all of it all of it. Can we cover all this? don't know. It be a long episode, but let's give it a shot. No, this won't this won't be that we got you covered We're snappy snappy like that Why don't we share I don't know like five tips we seem to do well with that. Okay. Yeah, she loves the tips Let's do five of them. So the first one is ditch the all or nothing

mindset. Yes. Right. The all or nothing mindset because consistency in December looks different and that's okay. So perhaps, you know, you, perhaps you aren't going to be able to run your, your typical daily five mile a day. Um, know, like to run five miles a day. puts in at least 60 miles a week. Absolutely. Yeah. So don't worry about not even on my car.

Yeah, don't do all of that. You don't even have to do any of that. Okay, I won't. So let us know if you have that all or nothing kind of mindset. In some ways, I kind of do. Oh, yeah, I kind of do. find out. Is Terry Shorter a little extreme? I can be extreme when it comes to like projects. Like, so for example, I know this Rift and Rumble, right? Yeah.

Sometimes I feel like I got to do it all in one day is not going to happen. ⁓ and it has to be perfect. It's true. It has to be exceptional. There's nothing wrong with that, right? Not perfect, but exceptional. there's times where I feel like, OK, I got to make sure I do the music selection and the edits and everything, and I'm going to do the choreography and I'm going to shoot my practice videos all in one day. That doesn't happen. And so I have to learn to have that.

I have to kind of ditch that all or nothing attitude and just be happy with making a little bit of progress. You know, sometimes you have to take the cape off and launder it.

I don't wear a cape. wear tights, but not a cape. He's wearing them now. did you notice if you're watching, we've got our warrior shirt vertical. Yeah. Harder to read, but yeah, mine's horizontal. it says warrior. Yes. the holiday warriors. ⁓ you okay? I'm not sure if I attacked it or it attacked me, but okay. So we talked about something like, you know, holiday managing.

The energy and stress. Yes. We're clearly not managing our energy very well today. That's okay. our focus. So bear with us. It happens sometimes. speaking of holidays, stress and energy, can we talk about boundaries? Yeah. You need to stay over there. I was kind of bringing it up because I was right here. No, holiday boundaries. I mean, it's a form of wellness. Boundaries in general, healthy boundaries are a form of wellness, which means you're not

obligated to run yourself into the ground and too often this time of year, there's so many opportunities to get together with friends and family and coworkers. There's parties and events and things that your kids school and things happening here and there shopping at the mall, all the things in festivals and such. And you just have to remember that when you look at your priorities in life, and this applies year round, but by all means this time of year, whenever you say yes to something, you're saying no to something else.

whether that's downtime or something else you could be doing with that time. And so be picky about what you say yes to and make sure it aligns with what your priorities are. Because as I said, healthy boundaries, like that's part of a good wellness plan for any and all of us. So whatever that means to you, whatever you need to say no to, just know that that's okay. Just say no. Just say no.

We learned that growing up, remember? I that was quite the campaign. was quite And I said no. You Do you know in high school, was a member of, do you remember, I'm such a dork. Do you remember Mad, Mothers Against Yes, against drunk driving, yeah. I was a member of, in high school, SAD, Students Against Drunk Driving. Oh, that's so sad. It was sad. No, that's awesome. It was powerful. for you. No, that's a good cause to connect with and be attached to, for sure. That's where my partying days began.

Or not. not. My lack of. It's OK. And that's all good. So your energy balance also will come from realizing that you've got to have some. you're into fitness, you're here, obviously. Yes, you have to be. Fitness flexibility, it's going to equal freedom. So it kind of goes back to that all or nothing kind of concept. ⁓ Don't be afraid to just do shorter workouts.

They don't have to be, I see people at the gym like for two, three hours. like, what do you do for a living? Where'd you get all that energy? Shorter workouts are fine. Even substitutions, right? Let's say you can't get that typical workout that you're used to getting. Try something different. Don't be afraid of it. be a great time to. Absolutely. ⁓ Get those morning walks in as well. Movement at the end of the day is movement. Kimberly always says movement. Good.

Move body good. Good. It is good. So don't be afraid to do that. Um, you'll feel so much better getting something in rather than getting, you know, nothing in and something in rather than burning yourself out. Absolutely. my gosh. So move body. Good. Yeah. Yeah. End of the day. Easy. Absolutely. So I would also say that emotional energy matters as much, if not more than physical energy.

And, know, this definitely is something we experienced that those, those of you who take our classes or take instructors class, you might not realize this, but if we're tired after teaching, it's generally not the physical push. It's because we give so much when we're teaching emotionally. And so you have to remember that your emotional wellbeing plays a huge role in how you're feeling on an energetic level. so, so think about that with all of the activities you take on your mood.

your mindset, it's everything. It really helps determine the level of energy you're bringing to the table all day, every day. And so when you're moving into your day, we've talked about this before and we talked about this with our recent episode about habits, but being able to go into your day with rituals, with daily rituals that set you in a good mindset, make you feel grounded. For me, it's meditation. And I know you like to journal and we like to enter in our day.

grounded and in a state of appreciation that puts our energy, our emotional energy in a good place because that's going to determine and affect the physical energy we can put out into the world. And that matters, you know? So, ⁓ take good care of yourself from the inside out so that you feel in a good place with your emotional energy, as opposed to just focusing on what you can push through physically. Yeah, for sure. ⁓

And that kind of leads in perfectly into the idea and just the concept of giving yourself compassion, right? Give yourself some grace. ⁓ and one of the best ways that you can do that is knowing that progress that happens is from staying connected, from staying present, from enjoying the moment. ⁓ I know it's really hard with all the distractions during the holiday season that Kimberly mentioned earlier and probably a lot more perhaps. Right. ⁓ but

staying present is going to ⁓ really pay big dividends and just enjoying the moment and not focusing on making everything perfect because ⁓ perfection is impossible. Absolutely. It's not happening. I hate to be the first one to break it to you, but perfection is not going to happen. progress will happen. It will absolutely, again, when you are in the moment, when you are grounded,

And when I say staying connected, not just with the present moment, but also staying present with other people too, is going to help ⁓ yourself by ⁓ help yourself in that process of ⁓ grace and giving yourself compassion as well. ⁓ So it kind of helps prevent and, know, kind of keep you from being so hard on yourself during the season. So. Yeah. You know, you mentioned progress there a couple of times. It just.

brings to life again what we talking about in our very last episode, which was evolution. It's allowing yourself to just gradually progress into whatever season you're moving into. Here we are in the holiday season, but whatever season, whatever chapter in your life you're in, whatever book volume you're entering into. But giving yourself compassion as you go through that process of evolving and becoming, I think is really powerful. It's a great tip.

Love that. Well, thanks. Yeah. Well, you're very welcome. Well, thanks for bringing it up. I'm your tips up too. ⁓ gosh. It's my pleasure. She's such a good dipper. I do tip well, actually. Awesome. Well, this holiday season, protect your peace, your energy, your joy. Let movement be your anchor, not a punishment. Enjoy it. Please do. And please also.

share your holiday self-care rituals. We would love to know what they to hear. Yeah. Cause it's new ideas. Yes. Get new ideas, help inspire us. And you can do that at Group X Appeal. And, we can just support each other during the season, ⁓ of the holidays and we all, we all need it. Us too. We need it. Yeah. I mean, season of giving doesn't mean you just give, give, give, give, give, give, give drop. Does.

People who are givers tend to give, give, give, give, give, give. That should be its own episode. They tend to give, give, give, give, give, give, We don't want you to drop. You need to receive as well. For sure. And you know what? That's hard for people. It's truly hard. It was, it was once very hard for me. But now it's easy. I'm not going to call it easy. Okay. But it's a work in progress and it's it's worthwhile. Absolutely.

So that is it for us today. Hopefully these tips helped you, you know, through this holiday season. And as always, we appreciate you listening. It does mean the world to us. And we really encourage you to share this if it helps out somebody who's in need or someone who could just kind of, you know, get it, take these, take these tips and apply them like right away. That'd be awesome. So, just laugh at our silliness. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine too.

Absolutely. That'll increase the emotional energy. Laughter. sure. Join us for that. So, and by the way, we're only weeks away. We don't want to forget to mention this. Only weeks away from the Fit Expo in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Convention Center on January 11th. Kimberly and I will be there with Group X Appeal. Please come find us. Say hi. Or if you'd to get tickets, please let us know. You can reach out to us. we can. If you need a hug, I'm a hugger. Yes. So just.

We're both come at me with open arms and I'll be there. Come get it. Come get some from Kimberly. Okay. Well now that's going be the tag. we going end like that? No, can't. Where are we going?

Thank you for watching Group X Appeal. We so appreciate your support. We appreciate you laughing along with us because we obviously are having a good time being able to bring these messages to you. So share, follow, give us a review. Let us know how things are going in your world as you go through this holiday season. We'd love to hear. So until next time, I'm Terry Shorter. I'm Kimberly Spreen Glick Happy holidays. And we encourage you to make it a great day today. Why? Because it is a great day to have. Yes, it is. Peace out. Much love.