322: Dealing with holiday stress

In todays episode, Betsy shares some tips for dealing with holiday stress and defines what she thinks is going haywire at the holiday time. After you listen, you’ll have a new way of thinking about everyone at the table and a new way of protecting your energy… and sanity! Transcript: Hello fellow adventurers. Hi. Welcome to the Art of Living big. I have a show for you today. That’s all about like Thanksgiving. So if you’re in the US or Thanksgiving is next week, and I wanted to share, like some thoughts about, about how tweaked out I think that the holidays, get everybody. I mean, there’s stats about it right that like people are way more stressed, people are getting together with family members that maybe they don’t spend time with, typically. And it tends to be a really overwhelming time. And I have some thoughts. So I just wanted to share those thoughts. Maybe it will help you. Maybe, maybe you’re one of those really lucky people that is totally in tune with your family and really close. And if that is you, then I love that so much. And maybe you could still give a listen and you could help your friends. Right. So okay, so let me dive into this Welcome to the Art of Living big podcast. My name is Betsy pake. I’m an author, a speaker and a trainer of NLP and hypnotherapy. And I’m focused on helping you understand and design your life with the power of the subconscious. This podcast is designed to help you think differently about what could be possible for your life. Now, let’s go live big. Okay, so I just saw this thing on the internet. And as soon as I saw it, I was like, Oh, this, this this thing. This is the thing that causes everybody so much stress at the holidays. And so I want to talk about what I just saw. And then I want to talk about the stress that everybody feels at the holidays and some of my thoughts and things that you can do. Okay. So here’s what I saw. You guys know, Carrie Underwood, right? You know, she started on American Idol. So she, I think she won American Idol. I mean, one of like, the early early ones. I mean, I think it was like 15 or 20 years ago, right? She wins American Idol. And she’s very country. So at that time, she was really in even over the last 10 years, I’d say she’s like really embedded with country music, you know, she has sung at the Grand Ole Opry. She’s in with all the country music stars, and definitely like her job genre has been country. And then over the past few years, I’ve noticed there has been this shift, right? She, she got married and had some kids and clearly is working with like a really great trainer. And she looks amazing. And she started doing a little bit more like rock and roll stuff. And I think it was like The Rolling Stones like within the last year or so I saw her do something with the Rolling Stones. And you might be yelling what it is right now, because I just can’t remember off the top of my head. But she’s like, much more like crunchy or much more like rock and roll. And I noticed a lot of the pictures that she posts, or her team posts are, like, you know, from down low, like looking up at her with all the lights and she’s singing and she just looks really rock and roll like really cool. And I saw this really great picture of her today. It came up in my feed. And you know, I really liked Carrie Underwood. But I’m not like a super fan. You know, it’s not like, I’m not like a like I am with Taylor Swift. Do you know what I’m saying? So like, I like her. But like, I’m good either way. But I saw this post and it caught my eye because it’s such a badass picture of her. I mean, she looks it’s, it’s, you know, it’s got a filter on it,