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The Holiday Anxiety You Created (And How to Stop)
Johnna woke up teary-eyed on December 14th feeling behind, anxious, and pressured to make the holidays perfect. Then she had an epiphany—her nervous system is literally addicted to building up the holidays just to watch them disappoint her. This one's about the uncomfortable realization that you're creating your own misery, teaching your kids to do the same, and what happens when you finally decide to stop.
What we get into:
Why Johnna's childhood Christmas trauma (rejection, uncertainty, forgotten birthdays on December 23rd) shaped decades of overcompensating
The Norman Rockwell memory from…
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