🎙️ Welcome to Healthy Happy Wise Wealthy (HHWW)! In this heartfelt Thanksgiving 2025 episode, host Mary Meyerwelcomes you with a warm family gathering with Andre and Mariana. The episode takes listeners into the joys, challenges, and memories of holiday traditions, featuring reflections on gratitude, family bonding, and embracing the messy reality of the season. Special guest Trauma Coach Jolyn Armstrong offers an empathetic, insightful discussion about holiday expectations, honoring changing traditions, and giving ourselves permission to celebrate in ways that meet our true needs.

🦃 Topics Covered:

• Favorite Thanksgiving memories and traditions
• The “real” emotional landscape of holidays
• Navigating grief and loss during the holidays
• Evolving tradition to fit real life
• Permission to let go of societal holiday pressures
• Creative gratitude practices
• Family dynamics, travel, and multicultural stories
• Tips for honoring boundaries and honest connection

Key takeaways:

• Holidays aren’t always picture-perfect—and that’s okay! It’s normal for the season to bring up complex emotions, fatigue, and pressure.
• You have the agency to shape the holidays around your current life and capacity; traditions can (and should) evolve.
• Meaningful connection can come from quiet moments, new traditions, honest boundaries, or simply being present.
• Gratitude can be found in family, health, travel, memories, and even imaginary friends.
• Setting gentle boundaries is an act of self-care and respect for loved ones.

Learn more about our guest

• Connect with
• Jolyn Armstrong
• Connect with Jolyn at GrapevineInnerWellness.com
• Email [email protected]
• Phone: 916.415.8619
• Follow Jolyn on:
• @TraumaCoachJolyn on Instagram, Facebook
• @GrapevineWellnessShow on @YouTube
• Connect with Mary Meyer
• @HealthyHappyWiseWealthy on @Instagram, @Facebook and @TikTok
• @TheGoodPodCommunity on @YouTube

Resources list:

• Find Jolyn’s Book on Amazon
• Trauma Recovery:  A 90-Day Guidebook to Building a Great Life After Trauma by Jolyn Armstrong, CTRCJolyn Armstrong
• Episodes 4 & 5 are full @HealthyHappyWiseWealthy episodes with Jolyn Armstrong. "Practical Ways to Overcome Trauma, Grief and Chronic Stress Episodes 1, & 2"
• Jolyn's Podcast: @GrapevineWellnessShow wherever you listen to podcasts

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