How to Practice Self Care When the Holidays Get Stressful

Shayla Law

We have an amazing guest post by the awesome Shayla Law of Holistically Shayla. Check out her bio at the end of the article to learn a lil bit more about her. 

How to practice Self Care When the Holidays Get Stressful

The weather has finally turned cold and that means it’s boot season! I love this time of year. Family gathers, everything smells like cinnamon and I get to use my fireplace.

As a child, the days between Thanksgiving and Christmas were always my favorite because my mom and aunts would all make sure that these days were filled with love, warmth, and lots and lots of food. But when I reached adulthood I began to notice something from the matriarchs in my family: they were exhausted and stressed out.

Now that I am one of the women responsible for making the holiday season a time to remember for our family, it is apparent to me how important it is to practice self care so as not to burn out. Here are my top three tips for practicing self care when the holidays get stressful. Continue reading

3 Time Management Tips to Keep Your Sanity This Holiday Season

Miriam Popp

Time Management

When I worked as a hairstylist, every holiday season I would hear the same complaints from my clients, “I have no time. I’m so stressed out. There’s so much to do. I wish I had more help.” My ladies would be one candycane away from losing their shit. The women who rocked the holidays like a G all had the same thing in common; their time management skills were on point.

 

Holiday stress can leave you ready to run away from home, so here are 3 time management tips you can put into play NOW.

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10 Ways to Love on Yourself (#6 is my favorite)

Miriam Popp

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As the holiday season creeps up, it’s the perfect time to make our self-care a priority. In this self careprotectpeace video series, Fill Me Up, it’s all about figuring out what brings you happiness and incorporating more of that into your life.

It’s your job to protect your peace.
Let’s go into the most stressful time of year, taking care of yourself better than you ever have before.

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How To Be The Change You Need To Live Peacefully This Holiday Season

Miriam Popp

Be The Change

So in the last blog post, I threw at you that tough pill to swallow called ACCEPTANCE. We can’t change our family members but this holiday season we can change ourselves to better handle the fuckery (sorry for the language but I just love that word).

 

The first step to that change is accepting our family for who they are. The second part of that change calls on us to really own our truths.

What is something about you that no one can take away?

What do you believe to be true about yourself? Continue reading

Get Your Mind Right. Holiday Family Stress Is Around The Corner.

Miriam Popp

Get Your Mind Right

For the months of October and November, all of Vibrant Lifestyle Coaching’s content will be centered around getting you ready to deal with one of the most stressful time’s of the year.

 

As the holiday season approaches, get your mind right for everything your family’s bringing with them.

The love, the laughs, the opinions, the full bellies, and the unsolicited advice.

Start building yourself up and making your peace a priority.

Being around our families can be a lot to deal with…especially around the holidays.

We love em. We need em.

They’re a part of who we are. Continue reading

Sidestep the BS

Miriam Popp

 

Side step the BS, the unnecessary drama.

How many of us find ourselves wrapped up in it from time to time?

Fighting others battles or maybe getting too emotionally involved in someone else’s problems. Hell, maybe you’re out here just stirring up the pot.

Maybe you’re looking further down the road and imagining problems that may or may not come your way.

Daydreaming about outcomes you definitely don’t want for your life. Continue reading

Challenge: Reconnect

Miriam Popp

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We’re constantly ON; running from this to that, plugged into our electronic devices and always focused on what we have to do next.
This week, I challenge you to take some time to reconnect with yourself.
See if you can take a minimum of five minutes in the middle of your day just to be quiet with yourself. Continue reading

Harness The Power of Your Thoughts

Miriam Popp

 

I was chatting with one of my Vibrant Chicks yesterday about fear of change and feeling stuck. Feelings that when intertwined can set you on a holding pattern that can last for months…years.

How often do we find our selves feeling stuck, helpless, lost?

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Own Your Power: A Morning Meditation

Miriam Popp

Sometimes it’s hard to stand in our power.

We want so badly to think of ourselves in a loving way.

Sometimes we wake up feeling defeated.

We want so bad the courage to stand up strong in our lives.

I created this meditation for these moments. Continue reading