When the Holidays Don’t Feel Very Happy | with Special Guest Christina Jolly, Life Transformation Strategist

It's the happiest time of year!   Unless it's not.  
  I had a fantastic conversation with Life Transformation
Strategist Cristina Jolly about how to handle this time of year
when you don't exactly FEEL happy.  Christina is the host of
the Believe for Bigger Podcast, and a life coach who helps women
who struggle with identity, lack of confidence and helps them
embrace their worth, step into boldness and operate in their gifts
with confidence.    We spoke about the larger topics of
finding and cultivating gratitude, and being open to change and
things looking different than they have in the past.  We also
talked about some more tactical tips like how to successfully ask
for the help you need, and how to have productive conversations
with family.    After we recorded this episode I've been
having some additional thoughts about the holidays that I'm feeling
called to share.  I think sometimes we can feel down during
the holidays because we lost sight of WHY we have the holidays.
 Christmas isn't JUST about presents, and cookies, and Santa.
It's not JUST about expectations, and family stress, and drama, and
the like.  It's about Jesus.  Christmas is about God
coming to earth in the form of Jesus to set in motion the most
important fulfillment of God's prophecy.  It's about the birth
of the Savior of the world, the Savior sent just for YOU and just
for ME.     It's true, the holidays can feel stressful,
but in my experience, I ONLY feel stress if I've veered from the
truth of the Christmas.  If we keep Jesus front and center my
stress is removed, my kids are full of gratitude, my husband is
calm, and no matter what goes awry it really doesn't phase us
because what is TRULY important is eternal and unchanging.  We
talk a lot about cultivating gratitude in this episode, but truly
my gratitude is for Christ, for His birth and later His sacrifice,
and for His hand on my life.     Friend, this Christmas
I'm praying for peace in your heart and mind and I'm praying that
if you don't yet know the peace of Jesus, that this Christmas
season it is revealed to you.     XOXO Tara   PS. If
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Website: https://christinajolly.com/
Podcast:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/believe-for-bigger/id1526276186?uo=4
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  Show Notes & Transcript: 
https://www.tarafaulmann.com/podcast/entry/73