November 19, 2025 • 17 mins
Do the holidays make you anxious because of one or several toxic family member who always stir things up? This episode is your guide to taking your power and peace back. I'm breaking down how to use the Yellow Rock method to stay calm, how to avoid getting triggered, and how to redirect conversations without revealing personal information that can be used against you. You’ll learn how to set boundaries, manage emotional triggers, know when to walk away, and leave the gathering on a high note. These powerful tools will help protect your energy, enjoy the people who actually support you, and reclaim a joyful holiday experience.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're in a good place now. You are listening to
Perspectives with Ashley Burgess. Welcome back live to the Ashley
Burgess Podcast. Are you looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas
with your family and going to dinner and having all
this holiday cheer or is it quite the opposite. Are
you dreading that one family member or that family member's
(00:24):
spouse that's just really toxic. Is there a specific family
member that makes you feel uncomfortable? Is every year an issue?
Do they seem to go out of their way to
make you feel upset, to insult you, maybe to question you,
or to be little or put you down. Do you
seem to feel like every time you come into contact
(00:44):
with them, they have like the zinger preloaded, Right, It's preloaded,
and you're sweating, literally sweating the next encounter that you
have with this person. If that's true, you'll want to
listen to this podcast. You'll want to memorize this pot.
You'll want to soak up all the energy and all
the information to safeguard yourself like never before. It's time
(01:08):
to take your holiday back. It's time to enjoy the
people you want to be around and to ice out
the ones that you don't. So let's talk about this
in today's podcast. I will give you the tools, the
techniques in order to safeguard yourself from this particular family
member or a couple of different family members, because we
owe it to ourselves to actually enjoy our holidays and
(01:31):
to be able to find the silver lining and some
of these opportunities. So the first thing that I want
to talk about in today's podcast is putting up an
invisible barrier. Putting up an invisible barrier. And when I
say invisible, I mean invisible because we don't want anybody
else seeing it, really right, we don't want anybody else
seeing it and understanding what we're doing. We want to be,
(01:54):
you know, undercover in a way. And if you have
this invisible barrier and you understand how to create it,
it works really well. Okay, So the invisible barrier is
what I call the yellow rock. We've all heard about
gray rocking where we say very little because we don't
want the narcissists to take advantage of what we say.
We don't bring up things from our past that upset us.
(02:16):
We don't bring up current things that are really challenging
for us. But that's fine. But you can see black
rock kind of activity from a mile away. I mean
you kind of look like, you know, kind of upset,
kind of you know, you just look really you know,
I'm up for anything. Don't try to mess with me.
You know, we don't want to look like that and
act like that during the holiday season, especially with other
(02:37):
people around that we actually care about. So we don't
want to go in with that energy. We want to
go in with more lucid, kind of cool energy. And
that's what I call yellow rock. So yellow rock means
you're being yourself. You know, you're all around fun, you're
a good person, but you're cordial to everybody. You know,
you're cordial, You're nice. But remember, yellow rock means the
(02:57):
less words, the better. You don't need to have a
lot of words and things. You don't need to talk
about a lot of things. Less is better, right x
nay on the personal stuff, Okay, don't talk about the
personal stuff. You don't need to bring up your personal stuff. Heck,
it's Thanksgiving dinner or it's Christmas dinner, you don't need
to bring it up, right, We don't need to. We're
here to celebrate that type of event right now. And
(03:18):
that's what we're here for. So I really want you
to not respond to like a lot of personal questions
as somebody does. Remember we can turn the focus back
to them. So if that person that triggers us, and
we know, if we say something that's going on about
our personal life, they're going to use it against us.
They're going to tell all the other family all that
kind of stuff. Okay, if that's happening, remember you can
(03:40):
just turn the focus back over to them. Everybody likes
to talk about themselves, okay, and so especially narcissistic people,
malignant narcissists even covert even though they're sneaky about it.
Oh I'm all about the people. I'm all about other people.
I don't want to be in the limelight. No they do.
So turn it back around, like right when they ask
your personal question, Oh hey, it's just that'll take hours.
(04:03):
How have you been doing, what's going on with you?
What are you working on? You know, those types of things,
and really turn it around, not like a rapid fire turnaround,
but really like you're actually generally interested in what they
want or what they want to talk about. Because remember,
if you can get them focused on themselves and not
focused on you. That is a win win because you
don't need to be sharing your personal information with this
(04:24):
particular individual anyway. The next thing that I advocate and
I want you to remember first off, that the concept
of the trigger, trigger is a bad word. To be
triggered sucks. And trigger to me is that four letter
or trigger. You know, it's not four letters, but it
feels like it. Because when we get triggered, bad things happen.
(04:44):
When we get triggered, we act out right. When we
get triggered. We're not really focused on, you know, our
composure or what we're saying, or how we're being perceived
in this moment. We're just straight up triggered, right, and
we're respon in that matter. So don't let them trigger you.
And I know you might say, oh, well that's easier
(05:05):
said than don Ashley, and I get that. But there's
some ways of being sure that there's less of a
chance to be triggered. And one of those ways is
don't drink, just don't, okay. Another is like no drugs,
like you know, you don't need to do that, Like
no drugs, no alcohol. Get some sleep before you get there,
(05:26):
like sleep that night before, Like make sure that you're
well rested, you're in the right frame of mind, okay,
because if you're not, you are definitely more susceptible to
somebody triggering you. Because remember, if you don't have control
of your faculties, if you've had a few to drink
and you're kind of tipsy, you're not expecting, you're not
(05:48):
able to safeguard yourself because you don't have all your faculties. Okay,
that's one of the main things to really remember here.
This is very important. So don't let them trigger you.
So remember no alcohol, no drugs, get some sleep before
and you know, I really advocate for a really clean
life anyway, because I think that, you know, it's really
important to have a clean life. It's really important to
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live a clean life because the cleaner life you live,
the less toxicity you have in your life, the less
toxic relationships you have in your life, the less things
that can come at you randomly and hurt you, you know,
or take over because you're able to see things clearly.
Most toxic relationships, you know, it's two people normally having
(06:32):
issues with each other, but also there's also this personal
stuff in the background that's allowing them to be more triggered.
And that's something that I want you to think about,
so be prepared. So when you are clear headed, you
are more prepared for them to launch their grenade. Okay,
let them launch it. Let them launch it. You don't
(06:54):
have to stop them. I want you to just see
it for what it is. I want you to see
the way they play their game. Okay, these people are
big time game players. Let them. Let them launch the grenade.
Step back, let it hit the ground. And the funniest
thing is if you cannot get triggered is to basically
(07:15):
ignore them all together with that grenade. They drop the
grenade and you go, okay, I'm gonna go grab some dip.
I'm gonna go say hi to Uncle John over here.
This is great. Ignore them or just laugh, you know,
just laugh as if this is a funny joke. Now
I'm not saying about over the top crazy heckling, laughing
(07:37):
like some deranged person, okay, but just like a quick
laugh and hey, that's funny, you know, and just walk
on by, or talk to someone else, or engage another
person in a conversation. This person will stop, okay. And
also when you allow that grenade to get launched and
other people are there, most people start picking up on it, right. See,
the thing is is that you get triggered by the
(07:59):
grenade normal and everybody just picks up on the way
you're acting. Wow, they were really out of hand the
other night. Man. It's like every single holiday we see,
you know, Jeff lose it. Well, Jeff's losing it because
so and so over there is constantly lobbing another situation,
triggering up to the point where he doesn't know how
to handle it. Right. But if you let him lob
it out, there no big deal. You let you watch
(08:20):
it hit the ground and you go, okay, well that's great,
and literally engage with other people. All of a sudden
the stuff that they're doing. The stuff that they're doing
is seen by other people, and that's where we begin
to end this self because they've been doing it kind
of behind closed doors where they say something, you know,
(08:40):
like angry and mean or insidious and they go you know,
and then you go, I can't believe this, and you
lose it and everybody looks at you like you're the ass.
When in general they never see the situation of what happens.
So if you let them lob out that little issue.
You throw it out there, you laugh, you bring other
people in, you talk, You actually ignore it. All of
a sudden, people begin to kind of look at that
(09:00):
person in a different light, and they begin to analyze
situations more than ever because you're no longer being triggered
by it. And it seems very out of place. Right.
Everybody's having a good time or enjoying, you know, each
other's company, but this person seems to be saying some
really odd things. Now this is something that seems quite easy,
I'm sure, but it's something that many of you forget,
(09:24):
especially when everything's happening and you're trying to fit in
and you're trying to, like, you know, be aware of
that person, and you're trying not to get triggered, and
you're not drinking and all that stuff. You know, you're
thinking about all these different things. I need you to remember.
Never to sit next to them. Never choose to sit
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next to this person that triggers you don't because remember
that's perfect for them, because they can whisper in your ear,
they can make comments, all this stuff kind of shrouded
in darkness where other people can't see it. You want
it to be like they have to literally yell across
the table to make a comment to you. Okay, And
I advise that. So if they try to sit next
(10:06):
to you, just get up, just get up, move around.
Or if you have a person in the family dynamic
that you trust, have them run interference. Quietly tell them
prior to the event. Hey, I don't want to sit
next to so and so. This doesn't work for me.
You know, I don't like to hear whatever the zingers
(10:27):
or the triggers or the politics or whatever. I don't
want to deal with it. This is not what I
want to deal with at this dinner. Okay, So have
that trusted person run interference. If you have no allies, okay,
and that's tough, just get up a lot, stand a lot,
move around a lot, Engage with other people a lot,
(10:50):
you know, in the family dynamic, talk to others, get up,
take a bathroom break, you know, grab some water, you know,
whatever it is that you need to do, take a
phone call, whatever you need to do to get up
and move around. And you know, most people during these typs, though,
they'll move around. And if not, you know, and you're
having to sit next to them, just pivot your chair.
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You know, don't really pay attention to them. If they're talking,
don't really listen to them. Don't give them any satisfaction. Right,
don't give them any satisfaction. This is a big deal.
Don't give them any more energy than you need to Remember,
the more energy you give them, the more they thrive
off this, because they thrive off this energy. The next
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thing that I want you to do is I want
you to know your exit time. I want you to
stick to it. I want you to know your exit
time prior to your arrival. I want you to know it.
I want you to get a good idea of when
you want to leave. I want you to really think
about that. I want you to know it. I want
you to stick with it, even if things are going well. Okay,
remember that, even if things are going well, I want
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you to leave on a high note. I want you
to be that George Costanza. Anybody that's watched Seinfeld knows
that George an episode where George constantly leaves on a
high note. Everybody's waiting and wanting more. He's leaving with
wanting Everybody's like, oh, I just want more of George.
That's what I want you to be. That's where I
want you to be at in this holiday and from
everyone after that, because it's about leaving on a high note.
(12:17):
It's about having a good feeling. It's about feeling good
about being there and not having some crazy thing happen
towards the end that you're like, oh my gosh. It's
about leaving on a high note. Leaving on a high note,
feeling good, others are feeling good. You know you've left.
You didn't get triggered this time, and we have a
good image of this situation in our head instead of
(12:37):
another negative image from every other holiday. Okay, the next step,
I want you to put the day or the evening
or the morning in perspective, right. It's all about perspective,
because it really is. It's all about your personal perspective.
Your personal perspective creates your reality. Right. And so there's
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only a few hours in this event. You'll be out
of there soon. I want you to have something to
look forward to afterwards when you leave, and we can
be happy with the family that we get along with.
We can have that connection with the family we get
along with and spend quality time with them. That's a
good thing. So there's gonna be people at the dinner
or at the lunch or at the breakfast that you're
(13:21):
really happy to see, and you're gonna spend time with this,
and so I want you to use your time wisely
with these particular folks. Right there might be that one
person that you're just like, oh, but I want you
to really think about it. Okay, yeah, I got that person.
I can't stand that's constantly triggering me and saying some negative,
nasty things. But you know what, I can just change
my energy and see like my aunts or my uncles
(13:42):
or my mom or my dad or am I sister
or my brother or whoever I really want to see
and spend some quality time with them, because you have
it right now. We want to use our time wisely
talking to your aging relatives, having good experiencing, making the
most of your moment. It's the moment, it's the present moment.
It's a present, it's a gift. We get this gift
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to be with these people. Don't let that get out
of don't let that go away, because there are people
there that you do want to spend time with, and
you owe it to yourself to spend time with those
folks that you really want to see and I think
it's so powerful and it's so important to do that. Now,
I have one caveat. If your entire family is a
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problem and everybody in your family is basically toxic, you know, narcissism,
malignant narcissist, covert narcisis sociopathic, anti social people, whatever that
looks like combination of all. If that's what you're dealing with,
I advise you to start this year with a new
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tradition of doing a friends giving or a friend's Christmas
where you can spend time with your friends. Because for
many of you, if you are dealing with a family
dynamic that is super toxic, is it even worth interacting
with it? I mean, do you have to do that
to yourself? And that is one caveat. Does I know
(15:07):
that some of you say, hey, I'm going through this
or that, or you know, my family is really challenging,
or it's really hard for me to even get along
with one person in my family, then you might want
to think about that. You know, I'm not asking anybody
to go into a negative situation that is really just
really negative, and that's not something that we want to
do in our life. However, for many of you. It's
that one or two family members or people that married
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into the family that you don't really get along with,
and that's fine. There's others to spend time with, and
you just need to figure that out because in life,
we're always going to have people that we really enjoy,
and we're going to have people that don't understand us,
and people that try to cut us down or try
to hurt us. And in the process, let's try to
enjoy the time we have with those people that are
there for us, that do have our back, and so
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think about that. Remember, these are some techniques that can
be used in any situation as well. You know, if
you're at a work function, you know, if you're at
a different events. These are things that are very important
to think about, you know, because we none of us
want to be triggered. None of us want to be
triggered in a situation, and it's very important to us
to acknowledge that this person's doing it, be honest about it,
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and then ultimately safeguard ourselves from these situations from happening.
I hope that this podcast has helped you. Please share
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(16:35):
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meeting you. So just remember you can control this. You
are in control of your own destiny. As long as
you know it, you're in control. I hope that this
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podcast has helped you. I look forward to next week
podcasts and don't forget to live your true life. And
you've been listening to the Ashley Burgess podcast, have an
excellent day,
You're in a good place now. You are listening to
Perspectives with Ashley Burgess. Welcome back live to the Ashley
Burgess Podcast. Are you looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas
with your family and going to dinner and having all
this holiday cheer or is it quite the opposite. Are
you dreading that one family member or that family member's
(00:24):
spouse that's just really toxic. Is there a specific family
member that makes you feel uncomfortable? Is every year an issue?
Do they seem to go out of their way to
make you feel upset, to insult you, maybe to question you,
or to be little or put you down. Do you
seem to feel like every time you come into contact
(00:44):
with them, they have like the zinger preloaded, Right, It's preloaded,
and you're sweating, literally sweating the next encounter that you
have with this person. If that's true, you'll want to
listen to this podcast. You'll want to memorize this pot.
You'll want to soak up all the energy and all
the information to safeguard yourself like never before. It's time
(01:08):
to take your holiday back. It's time to enjoy the
people you want to be around and to ice out
the ones that you don't. So let's talk about this
in today's podcast. I will give you the tools, the
techniques in order to safeguard yourself from this particular family
member or a couple of different family members, because we
owe it to ourselves to actually enjoy our holidays and
(01:31):
to be able to find the silver lining and some
of these opportunities. So the first thing that I want
to talk about in today's podcast is putting up an
invisible barrier. Putting up an invisible barrier. And when I
say invisible, I mean invisible because we don't want anybody
else seeing it, really right, we don't want anybody else
seeing it and understanding what we're doing. We want to be,
(01:54):
you know, undercover in a way. And if you have
this invisible barrier and you understand how to create it,
it works really well. Okay, So the invisible barrier is
what I call the yellow rock. We've all heard about
gray rocking where we say very little because we don't
want the narcissists to take advantage of what we say.
We don't bring up things from our past that upset us.
(02:16):
We don't bring up current things that are really challenging
for us. But that's fine. But you can see black
rock kind of activity from a mile away. I mean
you kind of look like, you know, kind of upset,
kind of you know, you just look really you know,
I'm up for anything. Don't try to mess with me.
You know, we don't want to look like that and
act like that during the holiday season, especially with other
(02:37):
people around that we actually care about. So we don't
want to go in with that energy. We want to
go in with more lucid, kind of cool energy. And
that's what I call yellow rock. So yellow rock means
you're being yourself. You know, you're all around fun, you're
a good person, but you're cordial to everybody. You know,
you're cordial, You're nice. But remember, yellow rock means the
(02:57):
less words, the better. You don't need to have a
lot of words and things. You don't need to talk
about a lot of things. Less is better, right x
nay on the personal stuff, Okay, don't talk about the
personal stuff. You don't need to bring up your personal stuff. Heck,
it's Thanksgiving dinner or it's Christmas dinner, you don't need
to bring it up, right, We don't need to. We're
here to celebrate that type of event right now. And
(03:18):
that's what we're here for. So I really want you
to not respond to like a lot of personal questions
as somebody does. Remember we can turn the focus back
to them. So if that person that triggers us, and
we know, if we say something that's going on about
our personal life, they're going to use it against us.
They're going to tell all the other family all that
kind of stuff. Okay, if that's happening, remember you can
(03:40):
just turn the focus back over to them. Everybody likes
to talk about themselves, okay, and so especially narcissistic people,
malignant narcissists even covert even though they're sneaky about it.
Oh I'm all about the people. I'm all about other people.
I don't want to be in the limelight. No they do.
So turn it back around, like right when they ask
your personal question, Oh hey, it's just that'll take hours.
(04:03):
How have you been doing, what's going on with you?
What are you working on? You know, those types of things,
and really turn it around, not like a rapid fire turnaround,
but really like you're actually generally interested in what they
want or what they want to talk about. Because remember,
if you can get them focused on themselves and not
focused on you. That is a win win because you
don't need to be sharing your personal information with this
(04:24):
particular individual anyway. The next thing that I advocate and
I want you to remember first off, that the concept
of the trigger, trigger is a bad word. To be
triggered sucks. And trigger to me is that four letter
or trigger. You know, it's not four letters, but it
feels like it. Because when we get triggered, bad things happen.
(04:44):
When we get triggered, we act out right. When we
get triggered. We're not really focused on, you know, our
composure or what we're saying, or how we're being perceived
in this moment. We're just straight up triggered, right, and
we're respon in that matter. So don't let them trigger you.
And I know you might say, oh, well that's easier
(05:05):
said than don Ashley, and I get that. But there's
some ways of being sure that there's less of a
chance to be triggered. And one of those ways is
don't drink, just don't, okay. Another is like no drugs,
like you know, you don't need to do that, Like
no drugs, no alcohol. Get some sleep before you get there,
(05:26):
like sleep that night before, Like make sure that you're
well rested, you're in the right frame of mind, okay,
because if you're not, you are definitely more susceptible to
somebody triggering you. Because remember, if you don't have control
of your faculties, if you've had a few to drink
and you're kind of tipsy, you're not expecting, you're not
(05:48):
able to safeguard yourself because you don't have all your faculties. Okay,
that's one of the main things to really remember here.
This is very important. So don't let them trigger you.
So remember no alcohol, no drugs, get some sleep before
and you know, I really advocate for a really clean
life anyway, because I think that, you know, it's really
important to have a clean life. It's really important to
(06:09):
live a clean life because the cleaner life you live,
the less toxicity you have in your life, the less
toxic relationships you have in your life, the less things
that can come at you randomly and hurt you, you know,
or take over because you're able to see things clearly.
Most toxic relationships, you know, it's two people normally having
(06:32):
issues with each other, but also there's also this personal
stuff in the background that's allowing them to be more triggered.
And that's something that I want you to think about,
so be prepared. So when you are clear headed, you
are more prepared for them to launch their grenade. Okay,
let them launch it. Let them launch it. You don't
(06:54):
have to stop them. I want you to just see
it for what it is. I want you to see
the way they play their game. Okay, these people are
big time game players. Let them. Let them launch the grenade.
Step back, let it hit the ground. And the funniest
thing is if you cannot get triggered is to basically
(07:15):
ignore them all together with that grenade. They drop the
grenade and you go, okay, I'm gonna go grab some dip.
I'm gonna go say hi to Uncle John over here.
This is great. Ignore them or just laugh, you know,
just laugh as if this is a funny joke. Now
I'm not saying about over the top crazy heckling, laughing
(07:37):
like some deranged person, okay, but just like a quick
laugh and hey, that's funny, you know, and just walk
on by, or talk to someone else, or engage another
person in a conversation. This person will stop, okay. And
also when you allow that grenade to get launched and
other people are there, most people start picking up on it, right. See,
the thing is is that you get triggered by the
(07:59):
grenade normal and everybody just picks up on the way
you're acting. Wow, they were really out of hand the
other night. Man. It's like every single holiday we see,
you know, Jeff lose it. Well, Jeff's losing it because
so and so over there is constantly lobbing another situation,
triggering up to the point where he doesn't know how
to handle it. Right. But if you let him lob
it out, there no big deal. You let you watch
(08:20):
it hit the ground and you go, okay, well that's great,
and literally engage with other people. All of a sudden
the stuff that they're doing. The stuff that they're doing
is seen by other people, and that's where we begin
to end this self because they've been doing it kind
of behind closed doors where they say something, you know,
(08:40):
like angry and mean or insidious and they go you know,
and then you go, I can't believe this, and you
lose it and everybody looks at you like you're the ass.
When in general they never see the situation of what happens.
So if you let them lob out that little issue.
You throw it out there, you laugh, you bring other
people in, you talk, You actually ignore it. All of
a sudden, people begin to kind of look at that
(09:00):
person in a different light, and they begin to analyze
situations more than ever because you're no longer being triggered
by it. And it seems very out of place. Right.
Everybody's having a good time or enjoying, you know, each
other's company, but this person seems to be saying some
really odd things. Now this is something that seems quite easy,
I'm sure, but it's something that many of you forget,
(09:24):
especially when everything's happening and you're trying to fit in
and you're trying to, like, you know, be aware of
that person, and you're trying not to get triggered, and
you're not drinking and all that stuff. You know, you're
thinking about all these different things. I need you to remember.
Never to sit next to them. Never choose to sit
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next to this person that triggers you don't because remember
that's perfect for them, because they can whisper in your ear,
they can make comments, all this stuff kind of shrouded
in darkness where other people can't see it. You want
it to be like they have to literally yell across
the table to make a comment to you. Okay, And
I advise that. So if they try to sit next
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to you, just get up, just get up, move around.
Or if you have a person in the family dynamic
that you trust, have them run interference. Quietly tell them
prior to the event. Hey, I don't want to sit
next to so and so. This doesn't work for me.
You know, I don't like to hear whatever the zingers
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or the triggers or the politics or whatever. I don't
want to deal with it. This is not what I
want to deal with at this dinner. Okay, So have
that trusted person run interference. If you have no allies, okay,
and that's tough, just get up a lot, stand a lot,
move around a lot, Engage with other people a lot,
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you know, in the family dynamic, talk to others, get up,
take a bathroom break, you know, grab some water, you know,
whatever it is that you need to do, take a
phone call, whatever you need to do to get up
and move around. And you know, most people during these typs, though,
they'll move around. And if not, you know, and you're
having to sit next to them, just pivot your chair.
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You know, don't really pay attention to them. If they're talking,
don't really listen to them. Don't give them any satisfaction. Right,
don't give them any satisfaction. This is a big deal.
Don't give them any more energy than you need to Remember,
the more energy you give them, the more they thrive
off this, because they thrive off this energy. The next
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thing that I want you to do is I want
you to know your exit time. I want you to
stick to it. I want you to know your exit
time prior to your arrival. I want you to know it.
I want you to get a good idea of when
you want to leave. I want you to really think
about that. I want you to know it. I want
you to stick with it, even if things are going well. Okay,
remember that, even if things are going well, I want
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you to leave on a high note. I want you
to be that George Costanza. Anybody that's watched Seinfeld knows
that George an episode where George constantly leaves on a
high note. Everybody's waiting and wanting more. He's leaving with
wanting Everybody's like, oh, I just want more of George.
That's what I want you to be. That's where I
want you to be at in this holiday and from
everyone after that, because it's about leaving on a high note.
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It's about having a good feeling. It's about feeling good
about being there and not having some crazy thing happen
towards the end that you're like, oh my gosh. It's
about leaving on a high note. Leaving on a high note,
feeling good, others are feeling good. You know you've left.
You didn't get triggered this time, and we have a
good image of this situation in our head instead of
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another negative image from every other holiday. Okay, the next step,
I want you to put the day or the evening
or the morning in perspective, right. It's all about perspective,
because it really is. It's all about your personal perspective.
Your personal perspective creates your reality. Right. And so there's
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only a few hours in this event. You'll be out
of there soon. I want you to have something to
look forward to afterwards when you leave, and we can
be happy with the family that we get along with.
We can have that connection with the family we get
along with and spend quality time with them. That's a
good thing. So there's gonna be people at the dinner
or at the lunch or at the breakfast that you're
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really happy to see, and you're gonna spend time with this,
and so I want you to use your time wisely
with these particular folks. Right there might be that one
person that you're just like, oh, but I want you
to really think about it. Okay, yeah, I got that person.
I can't stand that's constantly triggering me and saying some negative,
nasty things. But you know what, I can just change
my energy and see like my aunts or my uncles
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or my mom or my dad or am I sister
or my brother or whoever I really want to see
and spend some quality time with them, because you have
it right now. We want to use our time wisely
talking to your aging relatives, having good experiencing, making the
most of your moment. It's the moment, it's the present moment.
It's a present, it's a gift. We get this gift
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to be with these people. Don't let that get out
of don't let that go away, because there are people
there that you do want to spend time with, and
you owe it to yourself to spend time with those
folks that you really want to see and I think
it's so powerful and it's so important to do that. Now,
I have one caveat. If your entire family is a
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problem and everybody in your family is basically toxic, you know, narcissism,
malignant narcissist, covert narcisis sociopathic, anti social people, whatever that
looks like combination of all. If that's what you're dealing with,
I advise you to start this year with a new
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tradition of doing a friends giving or a friend's Christmas
where you can spend time with your friends. Because for
many of you, if you are dealing with a family
dynamic that is super toxic, is it even worth interacting
with it? I mean, do you have to do that
to yourself? And that is one caveat. Does I know
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that some of you say, hey, I'm going through this
or that, or you know, my family is really challenging,
or it's really hard for me to even get along
with one person in my family, then you might want
to think about that. You know, I'm not asking anybody
to go into a negative situation that is really just
really negative, and that's not something that we want to
do in our life. However, for many of you. It's
that one or two family members or people that married
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into the family that you don't really get along with,
and that's fine. There's others to spend time with, and
you just need to figure that out because in life,
we're always going to have people that we really enjoy,
and we're going to have people that don't understand us,
and people that try to cut us down or try
to hurt us. And in the process, let's try to
enjoy the time we have with those people that are
there for us, that do have our back, and so
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think about that. Remember, these are some techniques that can
be used in any situation as well. You know, if
you're at a work function, you know, if you're at
a different events. These are things that are very important
to think about, you know, because we none of us
want to be triggered. None of us want to be
triggered in a situation, and it's very important to us
to acknowledge that this person's doing it, be honest about it,
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and then ultimately safeguard ourselves from these situations from happening.
I hope that this podcast has helped you. Please share
it with anybody that you know is going to be
dealing with you know a challenging holiday season. Check out
our YouTube channel too. Go to Ashley Burgess, Ashley B.
E er Ges or life Coach Ashley Burgess and check
out the latest videos that we put up there on YouTube.
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If you'd like to set up a meeting with me,
a counseling session or a coaching session, please reach out
on Ashleyburgess dot com. Just click on coaching sessions and
set up an apployment right there online. Looking forward to
meeting you. So just remember you can control this. You
are in control of your own destiny. As long as
you know it, you're in control. I hope that this
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podcast has helped you. I look forward to next week
podcasts and don't forget to live your true life. And
you've been listening to the Ashley Burgess podcast, have an
excellent day,
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