57. Feel Peace This Holiday Season
Well, it’s that magical time of year again. At least I hope you’re able to view it the same way. I love Christmas. If it were up to me we’d start celebrating mid November. But my partner Deryk says our tree would be dead by Christmas Day. So, instead, we always wait until the first Saturday in December and we go to a farm just 10 minutes from us and we pick out our tree. This has become a family tradition for us. We get the tree, Santa and Mrs Claus are in the barn for visiting and photos with no line ups, (I refuse to do the shopping mall Santa’s) and there’s a cute little shop where I pick up local blueberry honey and fresh apple cider. This has become one of my favourite family traditions and I love to watch the smiles on my children’s faces. To me this is where the Christmas magic really is.
So, I recently shot our Christmas episode for chick chat sessions, which is my other passion project, with two phenomenal women entrepreneurs where we discuss important and relatable topics on a YouTube channel and I was surprised to find out that Christmas is stressful for both of them. And they basically told me that it’s more common for people to free stressed over the holidays than to feel happy.
One thing that I shared on that episode and something that I really want to share with you is...