December 24, 2025 • 13 mins
Ever feel like the holidays come with a script you didn’t write? We open up about the pressures that creep in this time of year rushed schedules, clashing traditions, and that quiet ache when the day doesn’t match the glossy version in your head and we trade perfection for something kinder and more real.
We dig into the two big stressors of Christmas: having too much to do or too little that feels meaningful. You’ll hear practical ways to reset expectations before tensions rise, like telling guests when you’re changing the menu or inviting someone to bring their must-have dish. We talk about family dynamics with humor and care, from the relative who always critiques the cooking to the person who stirs the drama and how early clarity, gentle boundaries, and a lighter touch can keep the room warmer than the oven.
Nostalgia gets its moment, too. If you’re chasing a childhood high or trying to repair a painful past, we offer mindset shifts that reduce pressure and create room for true connection. For anyone spending the holiday solo or far from home, we share simple, meaningful ideas: plan a treat you’ll savor, reach out to a neighbor, or find a travel buddy who’s also looking for company. Along the way, we return to presence small breaths, small rituals, and small choices that add up to a calmer day and to reflection, honoring grief and change with honesty and love.
Pull up a chair with us and let the season be human. If this conversation helps you breathe easier or rethink one tradition, share it with a friend, hit follow, and leave a review so more listeners can find their calm through the holidays.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Happy Christmas! Happy Christmas, everyone! And
(00:04):
this week's episode of Get ItReal with the English sisters.
Hope you're all having a lovelytime.
And you're able to relax.
Relax and enjoy whoever you havewith you, family and friends, or
even if you're on your own tohave a good time.
Today we're going to be talkingabout the challenges that
(00:28):
Christmas can bring on.
And and we know there can bevery many.
And challenges.
Tips and tricks on how to stayin the moment.
Yeah, I think that's it, isn'tit?
It's all about staying in themoment.
Stay in the moment and notfreaking out if your Christmas
turkey isn't quite right.
(00:50):
Or if you're not havingChristmas turkey.
Yeah, or if you're on your ownas well.
You can find something nice todo on Christmas Day.
Yeah, absolutely.
If it permits, if it permits orwhatever.
Yeah, that these are the thingsthat generally get people
anxious about Christmas.
It takes people down, doesn'tit?
If they haven't got if you'vegot too much to do on Christmas,
(01:15):
you're overwhelmed often.
Yes.
And if you have too little todo, you feel as if you may feel
as if you're lonely or being,you know, you feel left out.
Yeah, you've got that FOMO thatcan happen, like you're feeling
that you're missing out onsomething because the rest of
the world appears to be havingsuch jolly good fun.
And because it's a season, it'sa season to reach out.
(01:38):
And you know, you're thinking,why am I why why am I not
feeling all this jolliness?
Yeah.
And you know, there are many,many emotions that come up.
You can just enjoy if you are onyour own, you can just enjoy
being at home and watching aChristmassy film.
Oh, yeah, or watching, orplaying a game that you love
playing that you normallyhaven't got time to do.
Yeah, yeah, of course.
(01:59):
There are many things you cando, and it's just about having
the right mindset, I think, andunderstanding and appreciating
that this can be an anxiousmoment, whether you've got too
much, too little, but justaccepting it, I think, can be
helpful.
Accepting acceptance, becauseoften we have you may have a
little too much to drink, andthen you're feeling groggy, and
(02:21):
then the next day you're, youknow, you might have a fight
with someone, an argument.
I mean, these are all realities.
These are realities, they are,they are, especially if you've
got big families that gathertogether.
Which is often the case, andthere's lots of situations going
on in there.
There can be tension, there'speople that don't really want to
be there that seem to end upcoming.
(02:42):
It's always that aunt and unclethat bothers you.
Yeah, that a lot of the timesthere are people like that that
you really think, oh gosh, Ionly see them at Christmas.
And um but then if you don't seethem, you feel weird, don't you?
I think so.
I remember we used to have anaunt in the family, she's no
longer with us, but everyonewould kind of dread her, but
(03:03):
then if she wasn't there,everyone would say, Oh it's not
like Christmas if she's nothere.
Yeah, because she'd always kickup a bit of a fuss, and she's
very awkward at times.
But like you know, you felt asif you had to invite her because
she was on her own, and youknow, and even though it wasn't
as pleasant as you wouldimagine, there was always a bit
of a laugh afterwards.
Well, I think about her.
(03:24):
That's what I mean.
The joint community in inspeaking about her sort of
brought people closer togetherin a way, because that everyone
kind of felt sorry for her.
Yeah, that everyone liked her.
She was an awkward characterbecause you can't always have
that character that's gonna bethe you know, the the life of
(03:44):
the party.
There's always gonna be someonethat that's not you know Well,
in every dinner party or in anyoccasion, there is always
somebody that's not gonna bringthat can see things in a
different way and might not bethe happiest of people.
Or the p or the person thatcriticizes your Christmas meal.
That's it.
Because oh, you could have donethat.
(04:06):
Well, why didn't you do this?
Oh, you bought the turkey.
Yeah, or you didn't get aturkey.
Are we just having ham?
Yes.
The thing is that you have tojust if you are gonna do
something, I would advise ifyou're gonna do something like
that's non-traditional, likehaving ham, just let everyone
know that you're having ham inadvance.
Right.
So don't let them turn up.
So just say this is howChristmas is gonna be this year.
(04:28):
People can be really focused onwhat they want.
If you really want your turkeydinner, you know, just bring it
in on just bring it in aTupperware or whatever, just
bring it because we're gonnahave ham this year.
Because everyone's gonna beupset otherwise, because if they
really want that.
I mean, it's like if everybodyreally wants turkey and you're
making a ham dinner and youdon't announce it, you're kind
(04:49):
of looking for trouble becausepeople are gonna say, Where's
the turkey?
Yeah, but if you tell peopleyou're gonna make ham and then
they love it, yeah, yeah.
No, you're right.
No, in Italy on the 24th istradition to have fish and
everything to do with fish.
And so I would never dream ofnot, you know, just inviting the
whole Italian family to my homeand just say, no, no, you're not
(05:14):
we're not having fish.
I'm cooking some kind of turkeyor ham.
Oh, that would be tragedy.
Yeah, you know, I know that, soI just let them all bring their
food, and then you don't have todo anything.
I don't know, I don't have to doanything, but it's still a lot
of people, and and and there isstill so much to do.
I'm just joking.
(05:34):
I know that your hosting ishosting is tricky, is tricky,
yeah.
Sometimes I think, oh, I can'tbe bothered.
But I think you think you can'tbe bothered as well because it's
because it's not your traditionof the turkey.
Because if it was your turkeytradition, you you think because
you have Christmas with us thenext day where we have the
turkey Christmas, which is our25th, yeah.
(05:56):
We feel as if that's the kind ofreal Christmas.
I guess so.
Whereas for them, they feel asif the 24th in the Christmas Eve
is the real Christmas.
That's when they give out allthe presents and all the family
comes with all their differentpresents and they give them out
to each other.
So that's really, really, reallyimportant for them.
And it's their tradition.
You're coming, you're goingagainst tradition, you see.
(06:18):
So a lot of set of beliefs ofhow you're expected to feel on
that day.
So that's why it's good to warnpeople, isn't it?
But then you can always thething is when you do warn
people, then you can always sayat the backlash of oh no, you
can't do that and you shouldn'tbe doing this.
Yeah, that's a problem.
But I think you have to weighthat up.
I think it's still better.
I would I would just tell.
(06:39):
Yeah, I would definitely tellthem.
Show and tell.
I would definitely tell them.
I wouldn't want to go againstthat.
No, no, if you're because it's abig deal for people, isn't it?
They've got all theseexpectations.
That's why Christmas is tricky.
It is tricky, especially if youwere like a kid and you had like
the best Christmas ever, andthen oh, you can never live up
(06:59):
to that.
Then nothing ever feels the sameas that best Christmas you had
when you were a kid.
And if you didn't have a goodChristmas as a kid, you always
feel like, hey, you try andreplicate it.
Yeah, I got left out, somethinghappened, you know.
So I mean I was done.
Yeah, you think, no, I didn'treally experience Christmas like
the other kids.
(07:19):
What does this all boil down to?
It all boils down to that atChristmas we have to take a look
at our emotions, don't we?
Yeah, and that's what'sfrightening as well.
That can be frightening.
That can be frightening becauseyou look at the people around
you, you look at family membersthat you might have been too
busy to look at before.
You look at your ownrelationship and you think, hey,
(07:40):
with your partner, if you have apartner, if you don't have a
partner because you've you'veyou've recently got separated,
divorced, that's all sochallenging.
Yeah, or if they're no longerwith you because you really want
to be partnered.
Yeah, or you're a single andyou're walking around the
streets and everyone's likehuggling together, and you see
all these people, and everythingseems to be so jolly.
(08:00):
Just remember, it just it's justan appearance, it's a facade.
It's a facade, it is a facade inmost cases, and in most cases it
isn't.
I mean, and I mean it can be abit of both.
It can be, it's always a bit ofa theatre, isn't it?
Christmas dinner is like a bitof a show, it is a show, and
(08:21):
everyone, and it's all likebeautiful and everything's
special, but then there's alsothe arguments and the tiffs, and
the you should have done this.
I think it's a bit like yourbirthday, isn't it?
As well, you know, yourbirthday.
Sometimes you wake up and youthink, oh, it's my birthday, I
don't really feel like it.
Well, yeah, it's a birthday,isn't it?
(08:41):
People are celebrating.
Yeah, you're celebrating thebirth of Jesus.
Well, yeah, if you're religious,and if you're not, it's just
taken on this fulcruistic umsweet happy time with a family
time, yeah, with a FatherChristmas and a family.
(09:03):
And but still it has a lot ofthere's a lot of there's a lot
of baggage that comes with it,isn't there?
There's like the the you knowthe sack that Father Christmas
that's where all our baggage isin it.
Oh yeah, I never thought aboutthat.
Yeah, that sack that he carriesit's heavy at times until they
he gives out all the presentsand it kind of lightens, and
(09:25):
that's what kind of happens atChristmas when once we once
we've had our Christmas dinnerand we've had a few drinks and
we've shared out the presents.
Everyone tends to relax, don'tthey?
Yeah, that is true.
Yeah, and everyone can sosometimes they go off and they
do something, or they go on andplay a little game or play a
(09:46):
little bit.
But it does bring peopletogether.
I think it is important.
It's part of a tradition, isn'tit?
It's a tradition that shapes ourlives in the end because we have
we we're always on the go somuch, and we're always fighting
a f almost sometimes in you knownot wanting to fight off flight.
We're always on the go, alwaysdoing, doing, doing.
(10:07):
So that this is a time always atime of reflection, I find.
Well, it forces you to be withother like you see your nieces,
your nephews, if you have anygosh, they've grown up, you
know.
You see, you're you're youyou're with them.
You can if you can, you canactually have quite lovely
conversations with them that youwould normally not be able to if
you can get past the small talk,you know.
(10:29):
Like I remember last year sortof walking into the kitchen and
chatting with somebody, with oneof my nieces, and I thought,
wow, that's no, it was the yearbefore last, they're sort of all
mingling.
But I remember thinking, gosh, Ireally don't know this person
anymore.
No, that's sad.
She's grown up into a wonderfulyoung woman, and I really don't
know her.
And I thought about that.
(10:50):
You thought I should get to knowthem.
I should get to know them more,really.
But if it's not for Christmas,it's life, isn't it?
Yeah, kids in the way, everyonehas their own life.
Exactly.
That's why it is special tospend these moments to take them
out.
Yeah, to sort of it's an effort.
It's an effort.
If you if you're lucky to have alarge family, lucky and and
(11:12):
maybe not lucky, but if you areand you get on well with them,
then it's an effort, but it'sworth it, like what you said.
It's definitely worth it.
It's a lovely time of year.
And if you you don't, then it'stime for you to say, okay, look
at look inside your life andthink, okay, if you've you've
(11:32):
you've probably got a few daysof holiday.
I mean, you don't get that manydays of holiday here in Italy,
you get like three or four days,yeah.
And but it's time when you canactually just go and snuggle up
and read a good book or whateverand say, This time for me.
Or to think about other peoplethat might be feeling the same
as you, like maybe your nextdoor neighbour.
(11:53):
Yeah, that's what's always agood thing to think about or get
together with some people.
Yeah, maybe they're not feelthey're feeling a bit lonely as
well.
I was reading of this lady thatwas she went abroad and then she
said she was lucky because shegot in touch with someone else
that was there at the same time,another lady, and then they were
like they they spent the timetogether, they went to the
Middle East or somewhere.
(12:14):
And she said it was so lovelynot to be on her own at that
time of year.
Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, yeah, because you do getthat feeling, don't you?
Time to make new friends perhapsfor you if you're if you are
feeling lonely.
Yeah, don't feel frightened tolook inside, I say.
Look inside yourself and andrecognize the time is uh is a
(12:40):
specific quite a time forreflection, I think.
Yeah, it kind of makes youreflect.
It's like the end of the year,exactly.
It's the end of the year, youlook back on the year, you look
back on the good times and thehard times and the bad times,
yeah, and the jolly times.
Yeah, whether you want to ornot, I mean it can't help it.
It's the season.
Well, winter does that anyway,because everything kind of shuts
(13:01):
down.
Yeah.
So so you kind of go that wayanyway.
But I think if you can just takea deep breath if you're feeling
stressed or anxious aboutsomeone or something, and then
just say it'll be okay, youknow, it'll it'll be fine.
Send yourself some goodmessages, yeah.
Some love and some good hugs,and that's what we're gonna be
(13:22):
doing to you.
So happy Christmas, happyChristmas, and enjoy a lovely
time, whoever you're with,whatever you're doing.
Uh just think about love.
And if you send love to yourselfand love to others, I think
that's uh that's a worthwhilemessage to absolutely lots of
(13:42):
love and smile from the Englishsisters.
Bye.
Happy Christmas! Happy Christmas, everyone! And
(00:04):
this week's episode of Get ItReal with the English sisters.
Hope you're all having a lovelytime.
And you're able to relax.
Relax and enjoy whoever you havewith you, family and friends, or
even if you're on your own tohave a good time.
Today we're going to be talkingabout the challenges that
(00:28):
Christmas can bring on.
And and we know there can bevery many.
And challenges.
Tips and tricks on how to stayin the moment.
Yeah, I think that's it, isn'tit?
It's all about staying in themoment.
Stay in the moment and notfreaking out if your Christmas
turkey isn't quite right.
(00:50):
Or if you're not havingChristmas turkey.
Yeah, or if you're on your ownas well.
You can find something nice todo on Christmas Day.
Yeah, absolutely.
If it permits, if it permits orwhatever.
Yeah, that these are the thingsthat generally get people
anxious about Christmas.
It takes people down, doesn'tit?
If they haven't got if you'vegot too much to do on Christmas,
(01:15):
you're overwhelmed often.
Yes.
And if you have too little todo, you feel as if you may feel
as if you're lonely or being,you know, you feel left out.
Yeah, you've got that FOMO thatcan happen, like you're feeling
that you're missing out onsomething because the rest of
the world appears to be havingsuch jolly good fun.
And because it's a season, it'sa season to reach out.
(01:38):
And you know, you're thinking,why am I why why am I not
feeling all this jolliness?
Yeah.
And you know, there are many,many emotions that come up.
You can just enjoy if you are onyour own, you can just enjoy
being at home and watching aChristmassy film.
Oh, yeah, or watching, orplaying a game that you love
playing that you normallyhaven't got time to do.
Yeah, yeah, of course.
(01:59):
There are many things you cando, and it's just about having
the right mindset, I think, andunderstanding and appreciating
that this can be an anxiousmoment, whether you've got too
much, too little, but justaccepting it, I think, can be
helpful.
Accepting acceptance, becauseoften we have you may have a
little too much to drink, andthen you're feeling groggy, and
(02:21):
then the next day you're, youknow, you might have a fight
with someone, an argument.
I mean, these are all realities.
These are realities, they are,they are, especially if you've
got big families that gathertogether.
Which is often the case, andthere's lots of situations going
on in there.
There can be tension, there'speople that don't really want to
be there that seem to end upcoming.
(02:42):
It's always that aunt and unclethat bothers you.
Yeah, that a lot of the timesthere are people like that that
you really think, oh gosh, Ionly see them at Christmas.
And um but then if you don't seethem, you feel weird, don't you?
I think so.
I remember we used to have anaunt in the family, she's no
longer with us, but everyonewould kind of dread her, but
(03:03):
then if she wasn't there,everyone would say, Oh it's not
like Christmas if she's nothere.
Yeah, because she'd always kickup a bit of a fuss, and she's
very awkward at times.
But like you know, you felt asif you had to invite her because
she was on her own, and youknow, and even though it wasn't
as pleasant as you wouldimagine, there was always a bit
of a laugh afterwards.
Well, I think about her.
(03:24):
That's what I mean.
The joint community in inspeaking about her sort of
brought people closer togetherin a way, because that everyone
kind of felt sorry for her.
Yeah, that everyone liked her.
She was an awkward characterbecause you can't always have
that character that's gonna bethe you know, the the life of
(03:44):
the party.
There's always gonna be someonethat that's not you know Well,
in every dinner party or in anyoccasion, there is always
somebody that's not gonna bringthat can see things in a
different way and might not bethe happiest of people.
Or the p or the person thatcriticizes your Christmas meal.
That's it.
Because oh, you could have donethat.
(04:06):
Well, why didn't you do this?
Oh, you bought the turkey.
Yeah, or you didn't get aturkey.
Are we just having ham?
Yes.
The thing is that you have tojust if you are gonna do
something, I would advise ifyou're gonna do something like
that's non-traditional, likehaving ham, just let everyone
know that you're having ham inadvance.
Right.
So don't let them turn up.
So just say this is howChristmas is gonna be this year.
(04:28):
People can be really focused onwhat they want.
If you really want your turkeydinner, you know, just bring it
in on just bring it in aTupperware or whatever, just
bring it because we're gonnahave ham this year.
Because everyone's gonna beupset otherwise, because if they
really want that.
I mean, it's like if everybodyreally wants turkey and you're
making a ham dinner and youdon't announce it, you're kind
(04:49):
of looking for trouble becausepeople are gonna say, Where's
the turkey?
Yeah, but if you tell peopleyou're gonna make ham and then
they love it, yeah, yeah.
No, you're right.
No, in Italy on the 24th istradition to have fish and
everything to do with fish.
And so I would never dream ofnot, you know, just inviting the
whole Italian family to my homeand just say, no, no, you're not
(05:14):
we're not having fish.
I'm cooking some kind of turkeyor ham.
Oh, that would be tragedy.
Yeah, you know, I know that, soI just let them all bring their
food, and then you don't have todo anything.
I don't know, I don't have to doanything, but it's still a lot
of people, and and and there isstill so much to do.
I'm just joking.
(05:34):
I know that your hosting ishosting is tricky, is tricky,
yeah.
Sometimes I think, oh, I can'tbe bothered.
But I think you think you can'tbe bothered as well because it's
because it's not your traditionof the turkey.
Because if it was your turkeytradition, you you think because
you have Christmas with us thenext day where we have the
turkey Christmas, which is our25th, yeah.
(05:56):
We feel as if that's the kind ofreal Christmas.
I guess so.
Whereas for them, they feel asif the 24th in the Christmas Eve
is the real Christmas.
That's when they give out allthe presents and all the family
comes with all their differentpresents and they give them out
to each other.
So that's really, really, reallyimportant for them.
And it's their tradition.
You're coming, you're goingagainst tradition, you see.
(06:18):
So a lot of set of beliefs ofhow you're expected to feel on
that day.
So that's why it's good to warnpeople, isn't it?
But then you can always thething is when you do warn
people, then you can always sayat the backlash of oh no, you
can't do that and you shouldn'tbe doing this.
Yeah, that's a problem.
But I think you have to weighthat up.
I think it's still better.
I would I would just tell.
(06:39):
Yeah, I would definitely tellthem.
Show and tell.
I would definitely tell them.
I wouldn't want to go againstthat.
No, no, if you're because it's abig deal for people, isn't it?
They've got all theseexpectations.
That's why Christmas is tricky.
It is tricky, especially if youwere like a kid and you had like
the best Christmas ever, andthen oh, you can never live up
(06:59):
to that.
Then nothing ever feels the sameas that best Christmas you had
when you were a kid.
And if you didn't have a goodChristmas as a kid, you always
feel like, hey, you try andreplicate it.
Yeah, I got left out, somethinghappened, you know.
So I mean I was done.
Yeah, you think, no, I didn'treally experience Christmas like
the other kids.
(07:19):
What does this all boil down to?
It all boils down to that atChristmas we have to take a look
at our emotions, don't we?
Yeah, and that's what'sfrightening as well.
That can be frightening.
That can be frightening becauseyou look at the people around
you, you look at family membersthat you might have been too
busy to look at before.
You look at your ownrelationship and you think, hey,
(07:40):
with your partner, if you have apartner, if you don't have a
partner because you've you'veyou've recently got separated,
divorced, that's all sochallenging.
Yeah, or if they're no longerwith you because you really want
to be partnered.
Yeah, or you're a single andyou're walking around the
streets and everyone's likehuggling together, and you see
all these people, and everythingseems to be so jolly.
(08:00):
Just remember, it just it's justan appearance, it's a facade.
It's a facade, it is a facade inmost cases, and in most cases it
isn't.
I mean, and I mean it can be abit of both.
It can be, it's always a bit ofa theatre, isn't it?
Christmas dinner is like a bitof a show, it is a show, and
(08:21):
everyone, and it's all likebeautiful and everything's
special, but then there's alsothe arguments and the tiffs, and
the you should have done this.
I think it's a bit like yourbirthday, isn't it?
As well, you know, yourbirthday.
Sometimes you wake up and youthink, oh, it's my birthday, I
don't really feel like it.
Well, yeah, it's a birthday,isn't it?
(08:41):
People are celebrating.
Yeah, you're celebrating thebirth of Jesus.
Well, yeah, if you're religious,and if you're not, it's just
taken on this fulcruistic umsweet happy time with a family
time, yeah, with a FatherChristmas and a family.
(09:03):
And but still it has a lot ofthere's a lot of there's a lot
of baggage that comes with it,isn't there?
There's like the the you knowthe sack that Father Christmas
that's where all our baggage isin it.
Oh yeah, I never thought aboutthat.
Yeah, that sack that he carriesit's heavy at times until they
he gives out all the presentsand it kind of lightens, and
(09:25):
that's what kind of happens atChristmas when once we once
we've had our Christmas dinnerand we've had a few drinks and
we've shared out the presents.
Everyone tends to relax, don'tthey?
Yeah, that is true.
Yeah, and everyone can sosometimes they go off and they
do something, or they go on andplay a little game or play a
(09:46):
little bit.
But it does bring peopletogether.
I think it is important.
It's part of a tradition, isn'tit?
It's a tradition that shapes ourlives in the end because we have
we we're always on the go somuch, and we're always fighting
a f almost sometimes in you knownot wanting to fight off flight.
We're always on the go, alwaysdoing, doing, doing.
(10:07):
So that this is a time always atime of reflection, I find.
Well, it forces you to be withother like you see your nieces,
your nephews, if you have anygosh, they've grown up, you
know.
You see, you're you're youyou're with them.
You can if you can, you canactually have quite lovely
conversations with them that youwould normally not be able to if
you can get past the small talk,you know.
(10:29):
Like I remember last year sortof walking into the kitchen and
chatting with somebody, with oneof my nieces, and I thought,
wow, that's no, it was the yearbefore last, they're sort of all
mingling.
But I remember thinking, gosh, Ireally don't know this person
anymore.
No, that's sad.
She's grown up into a wonderfulyoung woman, and I really don't
know her.
And I thought about that.
(10:50):
You thought I should get to knowthem.
I should get to know them more,really.
But if it's not for Christmas,it's life, isn't it?
Yeah, kids in the way, everyonehas their own life.
Exactly.
That's why it is special tospend these moments to take them
out.
Yeah, to sort of it's an effort.
It's an effort.
If you if you're lucky to have alarge family, lucky and and
(11:12):
maybe not lucky, but if you areand you get on well with them,
then it's an effort, but it'sworth it, like what you said.
It's definitely worth it.
It's a lovely time of year.
And if you you don't, then it'stime for you to say, okay, look
at look inside your life andthink, okay, if you've you've
(11:32):
you've probably got a few daysof holiday.
I mean, you don't get that manydays of holiday here in Italy,
you get like three or four days,yeah.
And but it's time when you canactually just go and snuggle up
and read a good book or whateverand say, This time for me.
Or to think about other peoplethat might be feeling the same
as you, like maybe your nextdoor neighbour.
(11:53):
Yeah, that's what's always agood thing to think about or get
together with some people.
Yeah, maybe they're not feelthey're feeling a bit lonely as
well.
I was reading of this lady thatwas she went abroad and then she
said she was lucky because shegot in touch with someone else
that was there at the same time,another lady, and then they were
like they they spent the timetogether, they went to the
Middle East or somewhere.
(12:14):
And she said it was so lovelynot to be on her own at that
time of year.
Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, yeah, because you do getthat feeling, don't you?
Time to make new friends perhapsfor you if you're if you are
feeling lonely.
Yeah, don't feel frightened tolook inside, I say.
Look inside yourself and andrecognize the time is uh is a
(12:40):
specific quite a time forreflection, I think.
Yeah, it kind of makes youreflect.
It's like the end of the year,exactly.
It's the end of the year, youlook back on the year, you look
back on the good times and thehard times and the bad times,
yeah, and the jolly times.
Yeah, whether you want to ornot, I mean it can't help it.
It's the season.
Well, winter does that anyway,because everything kind of shuts
(13:01):
down.
Yeah.
So so you kind of go that wayanyway.
But I think if you can just takea deep breath if you're feeling
stressed or anxious aboutsomeone or something, and then
just say it'll be okay, youknow, it'll it'll be fine.
Send yourself some goodmessages, yeah.
Some love and some good hugs,and that's what we're gonna be
(13:22):
doing to you.
So happy Christmas, happyChristmas, and enjoy a lovely
time, whoever you're with,whatever you're doing.
Uh just think about love.
And if you send love to yourselfand love to others, I think
that's uh that's a worthwhilemessage to absolutely lots of
(13:42):
love and smile from the Englishsisters.
Bye.
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