Home for the H.O.L.I.D.A.Y.S

If you are moving over the holidays, you may consider paying closer attention to what is going on inside of you, rather than external decorations. You will have plenty of time to decorate for future holidays in your home.

You may not feel one bit at home this holiday season if you have just relocated to a new zip code. What if you focused more on sprucing up your true home, which is your body and your emotional well-being? Beautiful mums, holiday lights, and packages become irrelevant if you are empty inside.

As Jim Rohn says, "Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."

Every holiday season I challenge myself and my clients to focus more on our self-care than on anything else during this time. Here's an acronym for the word H.O.L.I.D.A.Y.S that may will help keep YOU at the top of your shopping list:

Honor Your Body. Treat your emotional and physical self like the most delicate of packages.

Only Say Yes to what you want to do. Is this the year you decline the cookie exchange party?

Let it Go. Once you've said no, let it go.

Internal Landscape. Pay at least as much attention to what you are thinking, feeling and believing on the inside, as you do to the string of lights on the outside.

Deep Breathing. This is a gift that is always available to be unwrapped - it lives right under your nose and has a tremendous ability to calm your nervous system.

Accept Help. It's a gift for others to support you. Say yes to offers.

You. Put your name on your gift list. At the TOP.

Slow down. Affirm that there is plenty of time.


Remember that you are really always HOME for the holidays - because you take yourself with you wherever you go.