#083: 3 Steps to Navigate Your Broken Family During the Holidays | Margaret Vasquez

If you’re from a broken family, you don’t need anyone to tell you how stressful, depressing, or just plain difficult the holidays can be. If you can relate, this episode is for you.

In it, we offer:

• 3 steps to plan the holidays, so you can reduce the drama and actually enjoy them
• Advice from a former trauma therapist on how to deal with your difficult emotions this time of the year, so they don’t control you and you don’t act out in unhealthy ways
• Resources to help you cope, heal, and grow from the trauma of your broken family

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Shownotes

10 Questions

1. When will you spend time with each parent, if possible?
2. Who can you ask to be your swim buddy?
3. What three things should you do to take care of yourself?
4. What healthy distractions can you use in intense situations?
5. What predictable circumstances will come up and what can you say or do in them?
6. What expectations and boundaries need to be set?
7. If you can’t be with your family, what can you do to experience some sort of community instead of your family? 
8. When and how will you communicate the plan?
9. What can you say to lead with your intention?
10. What’s your plan to respond if mom or dad gets upset?

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