People frequently experience more anxiety and depression symptoms around the holidays. Use these tips to cope.
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People frequently experience more anxiety and depression symptoms around the holidays. Use these tips to cope.
Here's where you can find me:
Blog - https://sarastrives.com/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sarastrives/
Intro and Outro Music:
Summer Vibes by Simon More https://soundcloud.com/user-73416670
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_summer-vibes
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Welcome to the Me, Myself, and You podcast.
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My name is Sara and I'm your host and I'm really glad to have you back today.
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I know it seems early to be talking about the holidays, but I really really wanted to make sure I got this episode.
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Do you before you started making your holiday plans?
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The holiday chaos is so real y'all when we get into November and December.
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It just gets crazy.
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There's a lot of typically there's a lot of family get-togethers.
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That sort of thing and honestly, I don't know what that's going to look like right now with everything covid which is kind of
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sad to think about but regardless, maybe there's still a lot of gatherings.
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Maybe it's Zoom calls.
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I don't know whatever it might look like.
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I'm sure it's still a little chaotic.
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So I wanted to share some tips to deal with that to deal with that holiday chaos to really just like I mean cope with it because
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it's gets Crazy, I know for me, you know, we're splitting time between my in-laws and my two sets of parents and then we have
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grandparents.
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Of course.
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It's nuts.
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It's definitely really common to experience more anxiety and depression around the holidays.
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It's I think a combination of the chaos and the weather and all of the things so I think it's really important to kind of slow
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down and make sure you're coping with it.
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Well, so first know your limits for me, I think it's really important to limit my Like social stuff.
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I feel like it's really easy to end up loading up on like a social activity every single week or multiple times a week and that
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gets to be a lot for me as an introverted person and to somebody who frankly likes to be at home.
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So know your limits next schedule it out.
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This has been super important for me and managing time with the all the different sides of the family is scheduling out the way
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we're owing to spend our holidays, especially when we didn't live in the same town as our families when we were when me and my
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husband were away at College.
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We were four hours away, which meant we had to come and do the holidays within a very short period of time with our three sides
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of the family and try to split our time between all of them.
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So it was really important to schedule it out and I really tried to break it up as fairly as possible.
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I really think scheduling it out and having a really good idea of what was to come and bathe.
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Get off.
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Okay, you know it's going to be too crazy for me.
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If I don't try to give myself a day of rest between here and here and knowing my limits when I'm doing that scheduling was
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really important to not feeling so crazy running around like a chicken with its head cut off.
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I guess I mean really that scheduling and knowing your limits is on some level boundaries.
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It's setting healthy boundaries for yourself, even through the holidays, you know for me.
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It's kind of weird because this last year was the first year my husband and I spent Christmas day or at least we'd spent
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Christmas morning on our own at our place.
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And for this year we want to do the same with our son because you know, we want to have our own little family unit have
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Christmas day.
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I just think it's important to really know where you're at and what you want to do because I think it's really easy to get
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caught up in the obligations of what everybody else wants you to do during the holidays and that's where the chaos.
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Comes in next I think it's really important to enjoy what you do do during the holidays and to not stress about what you don't
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do.
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I know this was kind of hard for me our first year of marriage.
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I really wanted to try to do a lot of like we I made like a little Advent calendar I want to do all these fun activities and a
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lot of them got pushed to the side and just didn't happen and I was kind of sad about it, but I think it's really important to
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just enjoy what you do take part in and to really do the things.
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The things you love and enjoy those rather than being worried about the fact that you miss your best friend's ex boyfriends
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cousin's party Revel in the stuff.
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You love just soak that in and do those things and relax and you know as much as the holidays are about getting together with
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family.
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It's also important to take care of you during that time.
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Don't let that self-care in those healthy boundaries laps just because Everybody wants you to come to their various events.
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It's okay to say no sometimes and it's okay to schedule yourself out and you know pick a few things to to go to instead of
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everything.
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Hopefully that helps you as we get into the holiday months.
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It definitely can be a crazy time.
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I guess that's it and I will talk to you again soon.