The holidays are fast approaching and no matter what ones you might celebrate (and even if you don't) this time of the year can feel tricky. As a therapist in my daily life this is the time of year that I start hearing more and more about financial strain, family dynamics, food issues, stress, mental load, depression, societal expectation, and the list goes on. These things are often hard on our nervous systems. Now is a good time to start thinking about healing our relationship with these things, deciding what boundaries we need to have in place, and examining our own values. Once we get clear about our values and boundaries and we do some work to heal old wounds and patterns we can start to have a much different relationship with the holidays. It's important to know that this takes time, this is an active practice, and you might hurt feelings. This is all ok. If you woke up tomorrow and all the stress and worry of the upcoming season was gone, what would be different?...