13/12/2025
My clients are incredibly inspiring and bada*s. Love getting to witness them come into greater clarity about what matters to them and how to live accordingly. 🎄
1. a shift to buying fewer, more intentional gifts: in anywhere from six months to 50 years from now, almost every single gift given this holiday season will either be in a waterway or a landfill. Buying fewer gifts makes the experience much more enjoyable, and is a act of care for our planet, too. What works well in our family is that each of the kids receives four gifts: something they want, something they need, something to wear, something to read. That limit makes it REALLY fun to shop for them.
2. the courage to have conversations with family about simplifying the celebrations: that might look like fewer celebrations, less complicated celebrations, weaving more meaning into the time together, deciding that adults are no longer going to buy gifts for each other, or something else. What most people have shared is that their family members seem relieved that someone offered options for simplification!
3. feeling free to skip traditions that no longer feel meaningful: elf on the shelf is optional, ya’ll! And so is pretty much everything else!
4. allowing the season to slow them down: in the Northern hemisphere, our biology registers winter as a time of rest, reflection, tending to hearth and home, storytelling, and quiet preparation for the lighter days ahead. It’s amazing what can happen for our wellness when we abide by that biological remembering and knowing.
