Alone, Overwhelmed or Blessed: The Real Holiday Conversation

In this special Thanksgiving episode, I am having an honest conversation about gratitude. The truth is everyone wants what they don't have. If you are alone on the holidays you wish you had family. If you have family, you wish for peace. This is a conversation about shifting your perspective and being grateful for what you have. 

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 Hey, good morning and welcome back to Worthy and Abundant, the podcast. I'm so grateful you are here Today I want to have an honest conversation about gratitude when the holidays are feeling heavy, lonely, or overwhelming. So Thanksgiving is two days away, and for some people it's their favorite time of year.

I remember my son always saying he loved Thanksgiving, which back when he was young, we had a different Thanksgiving. We usually went to his dad's mother's home and she's no longer there. And we had a great time with family Delicious food. So everything's changed and that's what happens in everybody's life.

Things change, people pass away, and dynamics change in families. But I want to have a real conversation about gratitude, not the Instagram version, but the kind that holds space for whatever you are actually feeling. Some people wish they had a big family, but they are alone on the holiday.

Others have family but feel overwhelmed, annoyed, or misunderstood by their family, and everyone imagines somebody else has it easier and that the grass is greener somewhere else. We forget that every table carries its own silent battles. The person sitting alone wishes they had company, the person surrounded by people wishes for peace, the truth.

Nobody gets the perfect quote unquote holiday, but everyone gets a chance to shift their perspective. I'm gonna let the dog in. Hold on one second. I shut the door.

Hello. I knew you were gonna want to come in. My angel baby. I thank God every day for my angel baby. We just came back from our walk. So I want to tell you how powerful this is because, I've been talking about gratitude a lot lately and I've walked through some very challenging times recently and.

I know loneliness like no other probably. But I actually love my own company, so I'm not choosing loneliness, but grief and stress sit inside the body and I am navigating through all of that. So I wanna invite you to reframe your Thanksgiving. 

what is something in your present life that you used to pray for and you have I want you to think about something that you have prayed for, that you currently have in your life. And I want you to think of who is showing up for you even in small ways, and what have you survived this year that deserves recognition.

The grass is not greener somewhere else. Okay. I just wanna say that everybody is experiencing their own thing, but we can choose a different perspective. The miracle is the shift in perspective, right? So in the Course in Miracles, they talk about fear and love. Wayne Dyer also spoke about fear and love and how in every situation you can choose love over fear.

What does that look like? It looks like responding instead of reacting. It looks like not allowing other people to trigger you or affect you and to stay grounded and present and loving of yourself and others, and choosing the loving response versus the reactive fear response, right? So I invite you to think about Thanksgiving in a positive way.

Take the good from it. Get excited about the good and you can do that. You know, even if you're alone this holiday, you can choose to eat your favorite meal. You can choose to watch your favorite movie. You can choose to do whatever it is. Go shopping. There's so many things be in nature. Be in deep gratitude, meditate all day.

Do something for yourself. And if you are with family and people are gonna say or do things, just set the intention before that you're not gonna let anything bother you, that you're going to choose to be calm and be present, and to be responsive and not reactive, and just not respond at all. Right? So there's so many things here.

I just really wanted to come on and talk to you about how so many people, think that it's, the grass is greener on the other side and it's always until something's taken away that we really feel grateful. So, I love the holidays. I made a decision weeks ago that I was gonna have the best holidays. It doesn't matter what is happening.

I am choosing to have the best holiday season this year, and that looks different for everybody. But I made a decision, and that's part of the way the intention, right? I decided that I'm having the best holiday and the universe is going to rush in and support my decision. So with that said, I wish you a beautiful holiday week, a beautiful Thanksgiving, whatever that looks like for you and.

Find something to be grateful for every moment of every day, find something to be thankful for. I'm thankful for this podcast. I'm thankful for my listeners. I'm thankful for the growth of this podcast. I'm thankful to have this platform to serve the planet, to serve people, to help people. I am grateful for my community here in Florida.

I'm grateful that I live in Florida. I'm grateful that I made the decision to move. Almost four years ago from Michigan, the cold Michigan to sunny Florida. I'm grateful I get to look at palm trees every day. I can go on and on and on because I practice gratitude on a regular basis, and I'm not saying that to sound like I'm better than anyone else.

It's just, it's been a powerful tool in my personal life. That has helped me for years. I mean, when I had my health condition 11 and 12, I started a gratitude practice, so that's like 13 plus years. But what's happening currently in my life is. I'm stepping deep into faith and in God and , Judaism and Kabbalah, and it's really beautiful and I'm so thankful for this journey and for God placing me here where I can walk to my shul and it's beautiful.

With that said, I wish you a blessed, blessed week, a blessed day, a blessed thanksgiving. Take care of you, love yourself, and love others, and your life will change. I just posted a video on TikTok and on I think Instagram, which one of them went to Facebook too. But , around learn to love yourself and love others, and your life will completely change.

And there is no separation anyway. We're all one. We're all one with the divine. We're all part of God. We're all someone. Because we're some of the one, we're all masterpieces because we are a piece of the master. So have a beautiful, blessed day. Thanks for listening. Take care.