Getting Together with Family For Thanksgiving?

The idea of getting together with family for the holidays can bring joy and excitement, or in some cases, lots of anxiety and stress. Whatever you are feeling, here are a few suggestions that might help you navigate some of those feelings that pop up or some of those family members that pop in.

1. This Year, Take Your Adult Ally With You!

Are you making plans to reconnect with family over the upcoming holidays? If you are, remember, the hardest place to not fall back into old childhood patterns is with your family. Whether it is shame, pain, rejection, unforgiveness, anger, having to be the responsible one, or just plain not feeling good enough, those old mental patterns you worked so hard to replace can come flooding back. But you don’t have to face it alone! This year, … read more. (Includes FREE Allying Yourself Handbook Download

2. Having trouble forgiving someone? Maybe these articles will help.

• Do You Need to Change Your Glasses?
• Forgiveness Comes in One Big Package
• Forgiveness: No Longer a Slave to the Past
• Forgiveness Isn’t Going Back to the Way Things Were
• Does Someone Have to Ask for Forgiveness Before I Forgive Them?

3. For healthy suggestions on how you can respond to The Advice Giver, The Critic, The Rager, The Braggart, The Black Sheep, The Alcoholic, The Downer, and The Controller, click here.

Praying you have an amazing Thanksgiving!

Jim & Kathie