What Are You Really Celebrating? Returning to the Light Beneath the Holiday Stress
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In this week’s episode of Showing Up Whole, Christina step intothe Holiday Season with intention. Instead of rushing into the familiar holiday shoulds, she pauses to ask a powerful question: What are we actually celebrating?
In a season filled with expectations, traditions, and emotional weight, it’s easy for sensitive, heart-led women to disconnect from themselves and put themselves on a shelf. Today, Christina explores how the holidays can become a doorway back to your inner light rather than a drain on your energy.
She starts by looking at the deeper essence beneath every cultural holiday: light, hope, renewal, and the faith that life returns even in the darkest season. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Diwali, solstice, or something uniquely yours, the theme is the same; remembering the light within and around you.
You’ll hear stories from her childhood, how family traditions have shifted through the years, and why joy, comfort, and meaning often show up in simple rituals like music, movies, nourishing food, and shared presence.
Explore how holiday stress disconnects you from your truth, and how to sort your shoulds from your joys so you can choose what actually supports your nervous system, your energy, and your spirit.
If you’re craving a grounded, sacred reset this season, join Christina for her free Winter Solstice Ritual of Light on December 21st. We’ll meditate, release the energetic clutter, reconnect to your inner fire, and celebrate the return of light together.
And don’t forget to download your free guide, Three Practices for a Calm Holiday Season, plus a bonus 7-minute meditation to help you stay centered no matter how busy life gets.
This year, choose calm over chaos, alignment over pressure, and joy over expectation.
Make this the season you remember who you really are.
Christina Fletcher is a Spiritual Alignment coach, energy worker, author, speaker and host of the podcast Showing Up Whole.
She specialises in practical spirituality and integrating inner work with outer living, so you can get self development off of the hobby shelf and integrated as a powerful fuel to your life.
Through mindset, spiritual connection, intuitive guidance, manifestation, and mindfulness techniques Christina helps her clients overcome overwhelm and shame to find a place of flow, ease, and deep heart-centered connection.
Christina has been a spiritual alignment coach, healer and spiritually aware parent coach for 7 years and trained in Therapeutic Touch 8 years ago. She is also a meditation teacher and speaker.
For more information please visit her website www.spirituallyawareliving.com
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Chapters
1. Welcome And Seasonal Intention (00:00:00)
2. Last Year’s Bandwidth And Boundaries (00:00:41)
3. Questioning What We Celebrate (00:01:14)
4. Childhood Magic And Sensory Traditions (00:03:39)
5. Dismantling Shoulds And Stress (00:07:51)
6. The Sacred Essence: Light And Faith (00:14:43)
7. Sponsor: Calm Holiday Practices (00:16:49)
8. Joy As Human Expression Of Light (00:18:38)
9. The Little Soul And The Sun (00:21:15)
10. Rituals Of Light And Solstice Invite (00:24:10)
11. Choosing Joy Over Shoulds (00:26:34)
12. Personal Plans, Food, And Flow (00:28:54)
13. Closing Reflections And Invitation (00:30:16)
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