The Nourished Woman with Keri Marino

How to Stay Centered (and Sane) this Holiday Season

• Keri Marino • Episode 17

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The holidays can be beautiful — and also… a lot.
Between family dynamics, packed schedules, and trying to keep everyone happy, it’s easy to lose yourself in the chaos and call it “holiday spirit.”

In this episode, we get honest about why this season can stir so much up — from childhood conditioning and generational patterns to the simple truth that your nervous system doesn’t love broken routines. You’ll learn how to tune into your emotions as information, how to create quick moments of regulation (yes, even hiding in the bathroom counts), and how to stay grounded enough to actually enjoy the magic in front of you.

I’ll share simple somatic tools, reflections on ancestral healing, and gentle reminders that peace doesn’t come from a perfect holiday — it comes from being present for the real one. If you’ve been feeling stressed, overwhelmed or on the edge of people-pleasing yourself into exhaustion, this one’s for you — so you can enjoy this season more instead of just get through it.

And if you’re ready to move into the new year with more calm, clarity, and emotional capacity, I have two open spots for my Thrive 1:1 Mentorship — a six-month journey to help you regulate your nervous system, deepen your relationships, and feel at home in your body again.

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Welcome to the Nourished Woman Podcast, a space for women who've been doing the work to grow and heal and are ready to feel good again, body, mind, and soul. I'm your host, Carrie Marino, somatic yoga therapist of over 16 years, mentor and mama of three. I help women like you fall in love with how yoga makes you feel. Alchemize the hard things you've been through and experience more pleasure and aliveness in your body and relationships. I'm so glad you're here. Let's dive in. The other day, my family and I were unpacking all of our holiday decor, and we're getting out the boxes of ornaments and the Christmas tree lights. And as we're sorting through all the ornaments, and first off, like that may sound like a peaceful moment. I think sometimes some of you have this perception that my life is just like chill and quiet all the time. And I just want to remind you, I have three children. And those children are 10 and just about to turn seven and just about to turn three. So, like this beautiful moment of unboxing our holiday stuff is actually loaded with excitement and noise and chaos, and like little hands are reaching and grabbing, and there's breakable things, and it was a very sweet moment, and it also feels symbolic of what the holiday season is really like for a lot of women. Like it is a very chaotic time of year, and we're pulling out stuff from our past, like literally. I have ornaments from my childhood, like very early on. You you might as well. And you're literally like pulling out your past and you're displaying it on a tree. You're pulling out maybe some family heirlooms, you're putting them around your home. No matter how you celebrate the holiday season or what your religion is, you're seeing it, even if it's not inside your home. You're seeing it in the stores, you're hearing the Christmas music, you're seeing all the decor everywhere. I live very close to a pretty busy part of Greenville, for my Greenville listeners, Woodruff Road. I'm about like six minutes from there. And oh my gosh, the holiday traffic is in full effect as I record this. And I share all of this with you because some wise woman at some point, I'm not sure who you are, gave me a holiday affirmation card. And as I'm unboxing the ornaments and things are just like beautifully crazy and chaotic with my family, I find this holiday affirmation card that I didn't even truthfully know that I had. And I'm reading through it and it just has so many good, like invitations to pause and just really resource back into yourself. And it's talking about giving yourself permission to do less and that things don't have to be perfect, and like talking about the no is a complete sentence. And I already knew I wanted to make this episode for you, but seeing that holiday affirmation card, feeling the energy of the holidays, seeing it in my clients as well, I knew that we needed to have this time together. So today we're gonna talk all about why the holidays can be so charged, why it can stir your emotional pot, why it can bring things up to the surface, why it can feel stressful. Even if you're one of those like holiday lovers, like my husband, he loves this time of year. He loves the lights, he loves all the different things that we do, he loves watching the holiday movies. Like he is such a cute, handsome man when it comes to the holidays. He's really into it. Me, it's not my favorite. Right. So whether you're like the holiday lover or you're like me and you're just like, I kind of like the routine and the normal life, this is a little bit much. I want to know, I want you to know that I'm speaking to all of you in that full range because what I'm gonna be talking to you about today can can exist on a spectrum, and you might be greatly impacted by this time of year, and you might be more impacted in a subtle way that maybe you're not even aware of, but as I talk you through it, you might see yourself in. So the holidays inevitably bring up our family history for us. We are reflecting, even if your mind is not, your body is reflecting on its experiences in the past. And so all of your conditioning and your programming, and truthfully, a lot of your wounded parts, along with all of the blessings and the gifts of your family, came from your childhood and your teenage years and the conditioning that you were brought up in, the family dynamics, the religious culture. And so, as your body and your nervous system cycle back through this time and see those relics of the past coming out of the attic or your crawl space or your basement or whatever it is, your body and your nervous system are doing some reprocessing work, whether you're aware of it or not. And so you might feel yourself being a little more stressed or reactive or feeling a little dysregulated this time of year, because quite literally you are stirring your body and your nervous systems pot up by walking through another round of the holiday season. And so that's one layer. It's like the past being brought up. And another layer is that ancestral piece, right? So if you're unfamiliar with trauma, which you're probably not, if you're listening to this podcast, you've probably heard of that. You've probably had some sort of work that you've done around it, even if it's just been listening to a podcast like this one or reading an article about it on something like Mind Body Green. The trauma that you've experienced in your lifetime, like it's not just about, you're not only impacted by your experiences. And by the way, trauma is not just what happened to you, it's also what didn't happen, like how you weren't supported, how you weren't met, how you weren't loved, how you weren't cared for in the way that you needed. But that's it's not just about your lived experience. It can actually have an ancestral component. So the people that you came from, the women who grew you in their body, the men who contributed to your being here, that that gets woven into your own nervous system. Like we know, for example, that stress can be experienced in the womb for an infant, like emotional stress and nervous system stress. And we know that like you didn't just grow in your mother's body, like the egg that you formed in was grown in your grandmother's body. And so it's like if we look back at it, like there are very real ways that your body and your nervous system was encoded with this sort of ancestral line and this pattern. And likely you've done some or a moderate amount or a whole lot of work to heal yourself and to grow. And I see you in that. I like, oh my gosh, I see you in however much work you've done, whether you're just getting started and you're here to learn, or whether you're like further on the path, you've already done work to unwind yourself from any of the negative effects of your generational trauma. And also true, healing happens in layers, right? You do not force this stuff. It unwinds over time. It comes up when it's ready to come up to be healed and approached. And you get to choose, right? Like you may have had an opportunity to heal something in the past and it and you weren't ready. And so you're like, nope, I'm subconsciously not going to choose that right now. And you can also say yes. And so as you're navigating this holiday season, part of that pot that's being stirred is that conditioning from your past, yes, and also some of those ancestral layers of things that happened to the people who created you, right? Whose bodies grew you, and your opportunity to heal that, to rewrite the story and to live in the present moment as the nourished woman, that archetype of the woman that you're cultivating as you do this work. Another reason the holidays can stir your pot and feel so charged is because we're out of our routines, right? Like my kids are about to go on Thanksgiving break, and I'm gonna get so much extra time with them, and I'm gonna be working less during that week. My husband's gonna be working more during that week. My husband's a chef, and they do these like gorgeous, elaborate, big holiday buffets for a lot of people. And so the routines are off, right? And then you might be traveling, you might be getting in a car and driving, I don't know, three, 10 hours to get somewhere. You might be flying on a plane, you might need a dog sitter, right? Like there's all those logistical things of being out of your routine, but it's also sleeping in different beds or not getting as much sleep as you normally would, or staying up late to watch that Christmas movie, or eating foods that are outside of your norm and kind of sitting with how that makes you feel, or eating more than you might normally eat. Like there's all these different things that can come up against. And if you are somebody who's really working on healing your relationship with food, this time of year can be even more triggering because we're expected to eat publicly and share our food. And like it's just this whole thing that can really get stirred up if you're if you're trying to heal your relationship with food and your body. And then that final piece I already touched on is really that your nervous system and your body know that things are different. You're you might think that you're not impacted by these things, but in reality, not to tell you your experience because you're the expert of it. So really just resource back in, never take anything and just assume that it's the truth. Like ask yourself if it's your truth. And also true, you're probably impacted by this time of year more than you may realize, especially if you don't think it gets to you. Because there's just so many different layers that are like coming up. Hello, hi, I'm here. Coming up for you to sit with and be with. And so I want to give you a sort of different vision for how to navigate through the holiday season because your nervous system might, it might go into like a fight or flight mode a little bit easier right now, or it might go down into like a fawn or freeze mode a little bit easier right now. So, like what you could normally tolerate might be a little bit less. You might find yourself getting a little reactive or stressed, or like overdoing it to try to make everything perfect for everybody else, or thinking of other people and not thinking of yourself and not tending to your own needs, or feeling like you don't have time for your yoga practice or your meditation, or you can't even like stop to cook yourself a decent meal. Like it would be very natural for your nervous system to tell you all of those things and for you to get tangled up in that and just kind of ride the wave for the next two months. And also, I bet, like I'm willing to bet, that that is probably not how you want to end 2025. Just like on a nervous system roller coaster of surviving and getting by and surviving and getting by and not being connected and resourced into yourself in a way that really feels good to you. I bet that's not what you want. I bet, I bet you want to take your time to enjoy this season, to enjoy the beauty of the change of the seasons as we navigate into fall. Gosh, it as I'm recording this for you, I'm looking out a window and I can see an occasional little leaf travel down off a tree and make its way down to the ground. We've got more sunlight in certain parts of the world. Like here in the South, when I wake up in the morning and I'm getting my kids ready for school, it's actually sunny. And during the summer, it was dark during that part of the day. That morning sun is so nice to have. There's all these different things that I'm sure you want to be able to savor and enjoy. Maybe you love, I don't know, like a peppermint mocha. Like maybe that's your jam, and you're like, oh, I just want to taste it. I want to experience the pleasure of it, I want to smell it. Maybe you love, I don't know, like a really good piece of turkey with dressing or gingerbread cookies or like whatever, whatever, whatever that thing is that you're like, I want to actually enjoy the fuck out of this thing. If your nervous system is in that survival mode and you're not being really present, then you kind of miss. You miss out on all the good stuff. You miss out on the chance to enjoy an incredible holiday experience with yourself. I saw a post on social media and it was saying that we get something like 80 on average. People get like 80 holiday seasons or 80 summers. And not to be morbid, right? Because obviously I hope you live, I hope I live much longer than 80, but also it kind of puts it in perspective. Like when we're in the routine, when our nervous system is flared or inflamed or a little more moving into these extremes of fight, flight, fawn, freeze easily when things are out of the norm, like they are during the holiday season, it's kind of easy to lose touch with that. And I find, and this is funny, you may not know this about yoga, but a huge part of yoga, if you really look into it, like every time we do a yoga practice, we end in a pose called shivasana. And that literally translates to corpse pose. And a big part of what yoga is really helping us do if we look into the philosophy is to make peace with our impermanence, right? Because yoga is really looking at like, how are we suffering and how is that keeping us from really living in alignment with our soul and with the cosmic soul, the god, the goddess, the universe, the divine, whatever you want to call it. Like, what is getting in the way of that? And one of the number one things that gets in the way of that are our attachments, our attachments to the way that things we want them to be, or what we like or what we don't like, and also our attachment to living. And so I think sometimes putting this in the conversation actually really helps bring us back to the present moment, right? Because if you're gonna get 80 to 99 summers and Christmas seasons or Passovers or whatever it is, don't you wanna make the most out of those? Don't you wanna look back January 5th and say, ah, that was a really beautiful close to my year? I feel like I really took time for myself, even when it was busy. I feel like I was really there for those conversations that I got to have. For me, my grandmothers are still alive, and gosh, I feel emotional just talking about it, but getting to sit with them.

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Oh, hello, Felix. Getting to sit with them is such a beautiful gift, and it just brings me such joy just to sit with my grandma. My grandmas.

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So I know that you want to look back on this time and know that you really appreciated being with your kids and being with people that you love and you care about, whether they're family or chosen family or people at your workplace. Like you just want to love on people, right? I get it. So let's talk about how you can do that, a different model for how you can navigate the holiday seasons from this nourished woman angle. And so a big part of that, my love, is how you work with your emotions. So we know, I've already talked to you about how your pot can really get stirred and on several different layers, right? All the different past stuff that's coming up, all of the ancestral stuff, being out of your routine, your nervous system and your body, navigating all of this difference between your day-to-day life on average. Like I said, your emotions can get kind of they can get stirred up. And so I want to encourage you to look at your emotions as important information. Your emotions have something to tell you about yourself. And I really love to use the mindset that your emotions are data, they're sacred information about you. And so taking a little bit of time as you're moving through today, the days, to just pause and notice what I am feeling right now, what are my emotions right now? And it could be something as simple as just putting a hand over your heart and a hand over your belly and taking a breath and just dropping into yourself and saying, Okay, what emotions are there for me? I want you to be so curious. I want you to make space for you to tune into this information inside of you that is your emotions. And that simple act can be so regulating for your nervous system and for your body, for you to just drop in and say, What am I feeling? And then also your emotions need expression. And sometimes the expression of an emotion can look like that, just simply pausing and tuning in and just noticing them and giving them the attention and care that they need to just be witness. Sometimes that can be how they express themselves. They express themselves by you becoming aware of them and those emotions being seen and acknowledged in your own mind, or maybe even better, like on paper where you write it out and you just look at it. And they can also be expressed in a lot of different ways. And for me as a somatic yoga therapist, I'm often really interested in how you might express them through your body. And so you might, like, if you wanted to really be present with somebody, then you might really focus on making some good eye contact with them. Like, oh, I love this person so much. I'm gonna really listen to what they're saying. I'm gonna turn my body language towards them. I'm gonna look in their eyes when they're talking to me. I'm not gonna be have my phone in my hand when they're talking to me. I'm gonna put that away in my bag. I'm gonna be really here with my body because I want to express my love and care for this person and that I value them, right? And it could be that something like anger gets triggered this time of year or frustration or irritation or resentment or guilt or shame or any of those emotions that feel important to express and sometimes can be trickier to express. And so I want you to know that you have full permission to express those emotions too. Obviously, not everyone is the right person to express those emotions around. Not everybody has the emotional depth and capacity or has the relationship with you where you can really just talk through those emotions with them. And also, that doesn't mean that you don't express these emotions yourself. And so this could look like let's say you're at a holiday gathering and you're feeling some anger or resentment or frustration come up. A bathroom is usually an option, right? It's like you can go into a bathroom, you can close the door, you can squeeze your fist really hard and then let them go and squeeze and let them go and squeeze and let them go. You can shake out your arms and legs for a good 30 seconds. You can move around, right? Maybe you do some horsey lips. So you're literally giving your emotion some place to go. Maybe you're kneading some bread. Just knead the fuck out of that bread. Like really squeeze it, stretch it, like oh, let your emotions get channeled out through your body. And then obviously, you're not trying to control your emotions, right? We're not trying to stuff them down. We're not trying to eat them away. We're not trying to pretend that they don't exist. I want you to really explore your emotions as a way for you to stay really self-connected and resourced as you navigate through this crazy time of year so that you have a tool, a very easy-to-use tool right inside of you. It will be one of the most like regulating things you could ever do for yourself, just to really prioritize having a relationship with your emotions that is proactive rather than reactive. Because if you're not choosing to tune into your emotions and acknowledge the information that they provide and find ways to express them that feel healthy for you and channel them instead of control them, then you're going to be reacting to your emotions. Like you're not a monk who lives in isolation. Most likely you're what we call a householder yogi or yogini. You're a yoga practitioner who lives in a family unit, who has work that you do in the community, who deals with money, who needs to buy shoes, like you're an average person. And so because you're a regular person, not someone who's insulated from the world, you're gonna have emotions come up. And your skill level around navigating those emotions is a huge opportunity for you. So I want to encourage you to really explore what it would be like for me to make space for me to feel my way through the holidays. Now, a little caveat here. I know that like women operate on a spectrum. And so past me used to be pretty emotionally flat. Like I was kind of like calm and chill all the time. That was just how I was. And then as I've done many, many rounds of healing work and lots of inner work and lots of therapy and lots of somatic yoga therapy and all of these different things, and I've healed all these different layers of trauma and worked through wounding and worked through choosing what I want for myself and desires and all of those things. I can tell you that now I am a much more emotional person. And I just didn't know it all that time before. And so now I feel like I have a lot bigger range of emotions than I ever did before. And I actually consider that to be a really good thing and evidence of my growth and healing. And then I also know that there are many women that come into my world, and it might be you listening to this podcast, that you have always been a deep feeler with a huge emotional range. And that as you do this work, maybe for you, it's kind of been the opposite, where it's like, oh, now you're feeling much more regulated, having done a lot of this work. I feel regulated too, by the way, but I also just feel like I have access to those emotions. And so if you're the kind of person who's on the end of the spectrum and you're like, holy moly, she's telling me to really prioritize feeling my feelings, and I already feel them way too much, and all of the time, and they're so intense, and it feels like it's running my life. I am not suggesting that you let your emotions boss you around. I am not suggesting that you let your emotions boss you around. I am very clearly telling you that you're the boss, and that you, as your highest self, as your soul, as the woman in charge here, can work with your emotions as a way of staying deeply present, super self-connected, and making choices in your relationships in real time that feel like they really honor you. Like you're not gonna lose yourself in the holidays or in the old patterning if you're really resourcing into yourself and your emotions in real time. So know that it's this, it's this sort of like, yes, work with your emotions and remember that you're the soul in this equation and that you're the woman who's choosing to do that. And if you feel yourself becoming really lost and spiraling in your emotions, then it's time for you to remember who you are in the equation. You are not your emotions, they are a part of you, and you're choosing to use them as a tool for presence and awareness and connection and deepened relationships and healing. A huge piece of all of this that I want to speak to is really this idea that you choose yourself. So we're kind of putting the emotional conversation aside for now. And I'm talking about another piece of how you can navigate these holiday seasons and navigate the close of 2025 with more awareness, is choosing yourself. And your nervous system is gonna make this a little bit harder for you this time of year. Because if you don't know much about your nervous system, let me just plant a couple of little seeds of wisdom here. Your nervous system is this operating system behind the scenes. It's constantly trying to keep you safe. And it operates on past experiences and programming. So in real time, your nervous system's constantly trying to figure out like, how can it protect you? How can it keep you safe? And how can I wire up what's happened to this beautiful woman in the past in order to keep her safe in real time? And these can this safety is not just physical safety, it's emotional safety, it's relational safety, it's all the different energetic, all of the safeties, right? So your nervous system, it operates this software behind the scenes, and it, depending upon the state that your nervous system is in, can impact how you think, how you feel, how you behave, how you eat, how you sleep, what choices you feel like you can make, it impacts all of that. And so if your nervous system is in a state where it's gonna have a lower tolerance because your nervous system is gonna be a little more stressed, most likely, maybe not, right? Like always resource back in, see if what I'm saying feels true to you, then it's gonna feel a little harder to choose yourself because your nervous system might be telling you, I don't have time for that, I can't do that, I have to do this, people need me to do that, I have to get this done first. Like all of those conversations might come up in your head. And in reality, I just told you, right? Like you're the soul in this equation. You can choose for yourself. Like your nervous system does not get to be in charge here, your emotions do not get to be in charge here. You, the nourished woman, the whole self, you gets to be in charge here. The soulful spirit-led you gets to be in charge here. And so I want to encourage you to choose yourself despite all odds. So even if you feel like you can't roll out your yoga mat, even if you feel too tired to do your meditation, even if you feel like you can't step away from a conversation because somebody's like cornered you and they're just, you know, talking and talking your ear out, even if you feel like Like you don't have room to take up space. Like maybe no one's asking about you, and you're feeling just like nobody cares about me. Nobody wants to hear my story. They don't want to hear about my life. You get to take up space. You get to choose yourself. You can walk away. You can take the time for your yoga practice. You can speak about your life in front of other people. You can leave the event early. You can show up late. You can. You can, you can, you can. And all those stories in your head and those patterns in your body and your nervous system that tell you you can't, they're not actually in charge. Because who's in charge, babe? Who's in charge? Your highest self is in charge. And so I want to encourage you to choose yourself over and over again. All right. The last thing I want to talk about with you today in this scope of conversation around navigating the holiday seasons is your yoga practice. Because obviously, based on everything that I've shared here, it could be pretty easy for you to unplug from your nervous system during this time of year. I can completely understand why you might do that based on all of the different things that I've already shared with you today. And I also think that there's different ways to think this about your yoga practice. And one is that your yoga practice is not just something you do when you can find the time. Your yoga practice is simply a part of your life. You're not having to make the time for it. You're not writing it on your to-do list and then not doing it and waiting for the next day. If you really know that yoga makes you feel good and that yoga helps you feel in tune with yourself, and that yoga helps your body feel more relaxed and light and at ease, and it helps you feel less stressed, and it helps you feel tuned into your soulful self. And if it helps you feel whole and good inside, then it's just something that you do. It's part of your identity, right? It's like waking up and drinking water. You're gonna wake up and drink water. That's just who you are. It's just such an ingrained habit that you do that thing because you know, like you need to drink water, right? And you know, you want to drink water. And so I want you to put your yoga practice in that same neutral territory. It is so neutral. It is simply the same thing as drinking a cup of water or eating lunch or going to sleep at night. It's just a part of who you are. So it's not a matter of when am I going to find the time or how am I gonna squeeze this in. It's just like, you know what, at some point today, that's gonna be part of my day. And the thing about the way that I like to practice, I started this off sharing that I am a mom of three. I am married to a chef and I run this yoga business at this moment completely by myself, this yoga and mentoring business. One day I hope to have a team. But right now, it's just me, babe, doing it all. So I hear you, you're busy. I'm busy, there's a lot to do. And this is choosing yourself. This is what choosing yourself looks like. Because if you're not choosing yourself, if you're not focused on doing the things that actually really make a world of difference for you, then something else is choosing your time for you. And so I want to do a little bit of a reframe here. And you may be listening to this and you're like, girl, I am so already there. Yoga is just part of my identity. I do some amount of it every single day. And you might be on the side of the fence where you're like, I keep not doing it. Like if you're really being honest with me, you would tell me I'm just not doing it. And I'm certainly probably not gonna do it over the holiday season. Girl, this is your gentle wake-up call. Wake the fuck up. Your yoga practice is here because you like doing it. That's why you're here. That's why you're listening to this podcast. You wouldn't be in my world if you didn't like yoga, right? And so if you like yoga and if it feels good to you, and if I have made it so easy and accessible for you, and many other yoga teachers and professionals and yoga therapists have made it so easy for you, where it's literally like if you're inside of the Nourish Women Sanctuary, it's on an app on your phone. All you need is 15 minutes. You can do that, girl. So make the time for your yoga practice. Because yoga practice is not just yoga practice. It is, it is literally how you feel held. It is how you come home to yourself, it is how you create the presence and connection in your relationships that you want to have, because your yoga practice is clearing all of the like energy backflow out of the way. It's clearing out the pipes, it's making room inside of you physically and energetically and emotionally for you to be the woman that you want to be. And prioritizing that is really important. So if you're giving yourself excuses, if you're letting your nervous system tell you you can't, I want to push you a little bit and say, what if you could? What if you could just choose differently? What if you rolled out your mat? A lot of times my meditation practice happens when I'm laying in bed, breastfeeding a toddler. That's real. That's when I meditate most of the time. It's because I choose it and you can choose it too, and it will make a world of difference for you. If you have enjoyed this conversation, if I've spoken to some things that really landed with you, I want to tell you about my Thrive One-to-one mentorship program. This is a six-month journey for an individual woman to go on with me, where we really dig into the different things that you're struggling with, the things that you're working on, healing, and your desires. And we explore how do we talk through that together? How do we make a plan for you? How do we process emotion? How do we do somatic yoga therapy to work on what's being held and stored and clear that out? How do we love on your nervous system? It is a deep dive, intimate, legacy-level relationship that we make together. You're getting two sessions with me a month, you're getting text and voice text access with me in between sessions, you're getting access to my nourished woman sanctuary, and it is for legacy level change. So if you are interested in not just a short-term solution for working on yourself, if you're like really wanting to make a permanent step forward, that is this mentorship. There are two spaces open. And if you sign up before the end of the year, like we can start in December, then you'll know. You'll have the peace of mind of knowing, like, I am closing out 2025 and I'm on track to really embody the woman that I know that I'm becoming. And I can't think of a greater gift that I could give myself or you could give yourself of that peace of mind of knowing, like, I have a plan and I have support, and I am on track for massive growth and healing that I can actually sustain and I can live from that point on as that expression of my highest self, as that woman who is more emotionally at ease, who is more connected in relationships and so many other good things, my love. Send me a message if that speaks to you, and we'll have a casual back and forth to talk about it. Happy holidays. Send me a message on Instagram at the Nourished Woman or even in my email. Your messages really mean the world to me, so don't be shy. The beautiful music that you're hearing is by Sean Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band. You can find them on all streaming platforms. I'll see you next week for another episode.