11/25/2025
Checking in with YOU
I'm sure most of you have felt it, the growing crowds out and about, coupled with their anxieties and personal stressors.
A sign of the immediate "holidays".
I love to connect with you all around this time to remind you that the holidays aren't the same for everyone. They are not a Hallmark reunion of forgiveness and first sighting of love... for most. Though it can happen.
The point is, where are you at? How are you doing?
Let's take a little inventory together this morning
Does the beginning of the holidays this year, feel like last year? What has changed? What hasn't?
What are your top 3 worries? If you have none, congrats! Celebrate that!
What are your joys right now? Doesn't have to be holiday related. Pick 4 of these
Please take time to write your answers and if you don't have the space to, please at least say them out loud. Let's get it out of your head. I would love to help you release some anxieties this morning.
Now. What can you put down to take a load off? Perhaps your dream of making 5 sides becomes 3. Or you enlist the help of kids/spouse/friend to put on some music and clean the house together. Ask for what you need (I know, I know!)
Maybe you want to ease the burden for someone else... "hey! Instead of gifts this year, let's go to a museum and dinner together" When one of my cousins would get ready for gift giving to my kids, I started suggesting experiences, like a zoo/museum membership. It was much more aligned with us and as a single mom, it felt so great to be able to take them to do things.
Many of us have family drama that no matter how hard we try, seems to creep into our space. Remember, you can only control your response, not what they do. So, how are you going to take care of you, before/after. For me personally, I love to smudge my house and have singing bowls or some other low tone playing quietly in the background, lively music in the kitchen so my food is infused with joy. I have former reiki students who will do a house clearing with reiki. It can be as simple as lighting a candle. It can be a self boundary "dad usually gets unruly after a few drinks. I won't stay long enough to see that this year"
And for those of you who have the lovely experiences. I'm truly excited you have that. Cherish it, not everyone gets to be in those loving moments. May your joy reach others and inspire them!
Check in my friends, see where you can let go, bring in, or re-align. You aren't alone.
If anything....
One hand on your heart
One hand on your belly
Slow breaths... in...and out...
Try and go deeper now.... in...and out...
This is a season, not a lifetime.
You've got this
Be Well
Liz xoxo
