Healing From Emotional Exhaustion and Holiday Burnout

Your Hope-Filled Perspective with Dr. Michelle Bengtson podcast · Jan 8, 2026 · 38m · transcript

Episode Summary:

Emotional Exhaustion and holiday burnout are very real experiences. Today we’re going to be talking about the post-holiday aftermath that many of us feel for a myriad of reasons. We are going to cover expectations—unmet and unspoken; the subsequent disappointment which follows and the straight up exhaustion of making Christmas happen for our loved ones. If we don’t pause for a moment following the holidays, we rush headlong into the long winter months with unresolved sadness, which impacts our mental and emotional well-being, making those January blues…