25/12/2025
Happy & regenerative holidays to you all!🎄🤍✨ Returning to the true experience of Christmas, for me, means turning off notifications my phone and stepping out of performance mode, choosing what’s authentic.
Not living Christmas as something to accomplish.
When I was a kid, Christmas in our home was done “in performance mode”.
Cooking and baking huge quantities of all you can imagine days in advance, making sure there was enough of everything, that everything was just right. Stressing.
There was care and love in it, but also pressure, tension, exhaustion. The women in my family carried this on as a ‘tradition’.
I do have a respect for the strength of the women in my family, at the same time, this is also a program, to keep performing, to keep everyone satisfied, and that being the responsibility of the woman in the household. To carry everything on her shoulders. And to rest as the last person in the room. Then to do the dishes, bring the desert, etc etc…
Today, I value simplicity.
Being together. Doing what brings joy - authentically, whether that’s a walk,
playing on the ski slopes,
being a couch potato and slowing down….,
singing….
Letting go of what we’re meant to do, buy, or feel.
Choosing presence over perfection.
If the dinner isn’t timed well, letting go, …
If we fall asleep early, letting go…
Being OK with what is…following our energetic capacity, truthfully.
Destressing…
Allowing a deep nervous system reset.
Apart from that this time of year can be overwhelming for most I feel,
we’re constantly told what should make us happy.
All the constant marketing starting on black friday.
Happiness isn’t something the holidays give us.
It’s a state we can choose, I’m still learning this, and in no way am done with the daily walk…
It’s a daily practice.
I’m also holding in my heart those who may be spending these days alone or feeling unseen.
You matter too. 🤍
Wishing you a calm, honest Christmas —
one that lives more in the body and the heart than on a to-do list.
PRESENCE over perfection.
