12/12/2025
If the holidays make you feel more exhausted, more unseen, and more emotionally heavy than any other time of year… it’s not just stress, it’s your hormones colliding with the emotional labor you carry every day. 🎄🔥
Every December used to hit me like a freight train.
I was already tired… but the second the holidays rolled in?
Boom — instant collapse.
Shopping. Cooking. Coordinating.
Being the “memory maker,” the “planner,” the “fix-it” person…
all while feeling like no one sees what it takes for you to hold everyone’s season together.
And meanwhile…
I couldn’t even keep up with my OWN energy needs.
It felt like carrying 100 invisible backpacks while everyone else wondered why I was walking so slow. 😔
In midlife, your body is already juggling:
• cortisol overload
• adrenal fatigue
• estrogen drop-offs
• inflammation
• sleep disruption
• immune suppression
• etc......
Add the holiday emotional load, the unspoken job of managing everyone’s needs, moods, schedules, and expectations and your system crashes.
It’s not that you can’t handle life.
It’s that your body is asking for support you were never taught to give it.
Here’s how to lighten the emotional + physical load FAST:
✨ 1. The “One Thing Rule”
Each morning choose ONE non-negotiable for yourself. Not five. One.
✨ 2. 10-minute cortisol reset
• 3 minutes of slow breathing
• 3 minutes of stretching
• 4 minutes of light movement
Your nervous system will reset faster than you think.
✨ 3. Strength snack
A quick set of squats or wall pushups signals your brain + adrenals that you matter too.
✨ 4. Evening de-load ritual
Hot shower, warm socks, no screens for 20 minutes.
Let your cortisol actually fall before bed.
You can try to willpower through this…
But burnout doesn’t respond to willpower.
Hormonal exhaustion doesn’t fix itself with rest.
And emotional overload doesn’t go away by ignoring your needs.
DIY-ing your energy only leads to the December collapse.
I use a simple daily solution that supports:
✨ immune resilience
✨ cortisol balance
✨ adrenal support
✨ energy restoration
…without adding more tasks to my already full plate.
It helped me break the holiday burnout cycle — and feel like myself again.
Comment ENERGY and I’ll send you what I use daily.