How I'm Protecting My Mental Health this Holiday Season
Today's episode is all about the holidays and gets a bit spiritual!Get Thorne Vitamin D/KFollow me on InstagramAll right, so before we get started, I have 2 disclaimers. I know last week when I recorded, um, I wasn't feeling the most peppy. That's because I ended up losing my voice that evening.
Um, And I was without my voice for like a few days over the weekend. I am still kind of getting back into it, so I apologize. If my voice is funky.
I also apologize. If you hear a puppy in the background, right now, she's napping. Um, I think she'll stay napping.
I'm not sure. I might need to take a break to take her outside. We will see.
But anyways, those are my disclaimers for today's episode. So, the holidays. Um, they come on quick and they are busy.
And I know that some people love, love, love the holidays. They truly believe that this is the most wonderful time of the year. But for me, I personally, well, I love Thanksgiving.
I have talked about the fact that I love November. It's a great month for us because we get to celebrate our anniversary. We now get to celebrate the gotcha day for our new puppy.
It's also the month that my husband's birthday is in, and then of course, there's Thanksgiving. So I have always loved November. But December and Christmas is, well, at least it hasn't been, and I have high hopes for this year, but in the past, December and Christmas time, it was never really my favorite.
And the reason is, because Christmas for me and my husband, it's kind of a just very, like, empty holiday because we are not spiritual in the sense that we are true practicing Christians. So the whole, you know, reason for the season is lost on us. And then we are also not gift givers.
Um, we don't give each other presents. Like we didn't even even give each other cards for our anniversary last weekend. Um, We are just not those kind of people.
And honestly, I think that the stress of buying people presents at Christmas time is just not worth it, especially when you're buying the gifts just because you have to. And so last year, I think, or maybe the year before, I recorded an episode about just kind of the way that I was making Christmas a little bit more meaningful. And so at that time, I wasn't as into my spiritual journey.
Um, And of course, right now, I am still at the very, very beginning of it. But I guess what I want to say is that I have always been in 2 nature and spirituality. When I was little, I had books about auras.
I had books about manifestation. I went through a phase of reading the Bible. I also went through a phase of really being into Buddhism.
I have always just loved the idea of learning more about yourself. And just spirituality in general. So, if you listened to last week's episode, um, you know that I am getting kind of into some more witchy things.
And that is not really what I want to talk about. There's a little bit of that that I want to talk about, but mostly what I want to talk about. In terms of saving my mental health or protecting my mental health, I should say, is viewing December as the beautiful time of year that it is in terms of nature.
