Episode 93 - Mental Health Check-In: Navigating Complex or Difficult Relationships During the Holidays

Each month, Still Becoming brings you a Mental Health Check-In episode. These episodes are focused on mental health, emotional health, or personal growth, and involve a short teaching and a few take aways in around 15 to 20 minutes. The idea is to take a therapeutic topic or technique and expand it to help us in our everyday lives.⁣⁣ This month we are talking about navigating complex, difficult, and/or tiring relationships during the holidays. In this short episode we will discuss some (not all) of the things that often come up for people this time of year like: unwanted questions, forced vulnerability, boundary questions, and grief over who someone is not in your life. We will talk about some ideas around staying true to yourself in these awkward encounters, and making a plan that feels good and right for you ahead of time. Finally we talk about the all to common grief of not being truly seen by people who have "known" you for many years. I hope this short episode provides a moment of support, validation, insight, and planning for you as you reflect on your own relationships during this unique time of year that often comes with a lot of pressure and expectations. And I hope you feel empowered to lovingly choose what is best for you in little and big moments and ways. For more Still Becoming find Monica at monicadicristina.com, and on Instagram: @monicadicristina. Sign up for the newsletter too!