HO-HO-Holy crap, it's Christmas again! While the kids are anticipating the big present reveal on Christmas morning, you’ve anticipated the stress of the season and have stocked your wine fridge well. 

Mama, we’ve all had holidays where we've been as snarly and jolly-less as the Grinch himself. Hello! Your shopping and to-do lists are longer than Santa's naughty/nice list!

Seriously though, nothing can amp up stress, anxiety, and overwhelm like the holidays. 

After personally experiencing too many frazzled, fatigued, and freaking un-jolly holidays, I decided that some things needed to change. I slowly began implementing these four things and lemme tell ya, my holidays changed into truly joy-full days of Christmas cheer and celebration.

Instead of feeling rushed and dreading the busyness of the holidays, I can now fully embrace the season stress-free with lots of evenings spent sitting by the tree watching Christmas movies and playing games with my family!

That’s exactly what I want for you… a stress-free, holly jolly, family fun-filled holiday season! 

These 4 tips will help lighten your load and help you to have the BEST HOLIDAY EVER year after year after year! Listen now!

BTW... I have a free printable Holiday Shopping Tracker (and accompanying blog post) available for you at https://msalishacarlson.com/best-holiday-ever/


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Have you ever felt like you have to do ALL. THE. THINGS. and do them now? Like everything falls on you and you can barely keep up?

Girlfriend, that is overwhelm!

But you can break free of what is overwhelming you! You have the ability to live unencumbered,  unstressed, and not feeling like she's barely surviving, but really living a life that matters with the people that matter most to her!

In this episode we will:

• Dive into the full definition of overwhelm.
• Discuss where overwhelm comes from.
• Learn how to identify what it is that is causing us overwhelm by questioning what is necessary in our life, what brings stress, aggrivation, irritation, or joy.
• Start the evaluation process of what we can release so we can live a less-stressed life.

This is both hard work and heart work, friend! But this is the most significant step to overcoming what overwhelms you so you have space to really live the life you want.

Are you ready?




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How would you answer the question, "When is the last time you took a bath?"

I have to be honest... I'm 42 years old and I love bath time. 

Give me some aromatherapy bath salts, a few pumps of body wash for bubbles, and a large cuppa joe (in the morning) or an extra large pour of wine in the evening, and I am happy. 

My bath tub and bath time are so not-fancy that they binge on being ghetto, but I love it.

Unfortunately, whenever I talk about relaxing in a hot bath, a lot of moms respond to me saying, "I don't have time to take a bath. What are you talking about? I can't even remember the last time I took a bath." 

That response is often followed up by a laundry list of reasons why they can't take a bath...

• I'm too busy. 
• I never have a minute to myself. 
• That sounds lovely. But I...
• My kids are too little and I can't leave them unattended. 

My friend, there are a million reasons (even legit ones) why you might not be hopping in the bathtub. I get it.

But here's the deal, mama. I don't really care if you're in the bathtub.

What I do care about and am discussing in this episode is that you should be making time for you. You could have time to take a bath if you make yourself a priority.

Self care is not selfish. It is crucial. It is necessary. It is essential.

Yes, your self-care is essential to your family's happiness. It's essential to the rhythms in your home. It's essential to everything you are connected to. 

In this episode, I'll share with you two studies of why it is crucial for you to have time for you. SPOILER ALERT: your self-care DOES affect your parenting!

And then I'll share a few ways that I have made self-care and 'Me Time' a priority in my life, even when my boys were little wild things!

These small tips may make a huge difference in your life and how you show up for your family.

Whether it's taking a bath or just taking care of yourself in simple ways on a daily basis... you are worth taking care of! So go do it!

Show up for yourself today so you can show up better for your kids!

And please, share with me how you're taking care of you. Heck, DM me from the tub! I can't wait to hear from you!

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