Elizabeth and I welcome you into our home to talk about our changing relationship with the holidays, letting go of the past, healthy boundaries, glimmers, and different paths to taking in the good. Along the way we talk about different approaches to working with trauma, connecting with the body, and getting on our own side.

Key Topics:
0:00 Introduction
1:55 Elizabeth’s history with the holidays, and claiming your own rituals
5:25 Experiencing the holidays without an agenda
10:35 Glimmers in Polyvagal Theory
14:40 Working with a challenging relationship history
21:30 Somatic psychology, and respecting the mind
28:10 Regulating through movement
31:55 Staying yourself inside of your family
38:50 Enjoying agency, and emphasizing beauty
43:00 Entrapment and defeat, awareness, and saying no
47:55 Attachment, contracting around desire, and taking a moment for yourself
52:15 A practice of finding glimmers
56:45 Self-compassion and camaraderie during the holidays

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Who Am I: I'm Forrest, the co-author of Resilient (https://amzn.to/3iXLerD) and host of the Being Well Podcast (https://apple.co/38ufGG0). I'm making videos focused on simplifying psychology, mental health, and personal growth.

I'm not a clinician, and anything I say on this channel should not be taken as medical advice.

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