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Holiday Survival Guide for Your Gut and Your Sanity
The holidays can amplify everything. Joy, grief, memories, pressure, and exhaustion often collide all at once. If you find yourself feeling bloated, emotional, reactive, inflamed, or disconnected this time of year, this episode is for you.
In this solo conversation, Monica shares a compassionate, nervous-system-aware approach to moving through the holidays without pushing, restricting, or starting over. This episode is not about discipline or perfection. It is about understanding how stress impacts your gut and nervous system and learning how to support your body instead of fighting it.
You will learn why your body responds the way it does during the holidays and how to anchor yourself with simple, realistic practices that promote stability, regulation, and self-trust.
• Why the holidays feel so hard on your body and nervous system
• The deep connection between gut health and stress
• Why restriction increases inflammation and emotional eating
• How to choose regulation over control during chaotic seasons
• Simple ways to stabilize blood sugar, digestion, and mood
• How to create emotional boundaries without explanation
• Why healing is about returning to yourself, not handling things perfectly
• How January is about coming back to yourself, not becoming someone new
Your body does not experience the holidays as joy. It experiences change and stress.
Gut symptoms, cravings, mood swings, and fatigue are not failures. They are biological responses to overload.
Restriction is not regulation. Your body heals when it feels safe, supported, and steady.
Stability starts with how you wake up, how you fuel your body, and how often you pause.
Healing is measured by how quickly you come back to yourself, not by avoiding hard moments.
• Creating a steady morning start with breath and intention
• Eating to stabilize blood sugar rather than punish yourself
• Adding protein, hydration, and minerals for nervous system support
• Recognizing when your body needs rest instead of pushing
• Setting emotional boundaries by choosing what you do not carry
January is not about starting over. It is about resetting at the nervous system level.
Monica is opening enrollment for her RESET program, a six-week foundation designed to help you regulate your nervous system, restore energy, reduce inflammation, and reconnect with your body in a sustainable way.
She is also hosting a free January Masterclass where she will teach why willpower has not worked, why your body feels stuck, and what actually creates lasting change.
All details are available through the links above.
• Explore coaching programs and resources
You are not behind.
You are not broken.
You are becoming.
And you were made for so much more.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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By Monica Connolly
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The holidays can amplify everything. Joy, grief, memories, pressure, and exhaustion often collide all at once. If you find yourself feeling bloated, emotional, reactive, inflamed, or disconnected this time of year, this episode is for you.
In this solo conversation, Monica shares a compassionate, nervous-system-aware approach to moving through the holidays without pushing, restricting, or starting over. This episode is not about discipline or perfection. It is about understanding how stress impacts your gut and nervous system and learning how to support your body instead of fighting it.
You will learn why your body responds the way it does during the holidays and how to anchor yourself with simple, realistic practices that promote stability, regulation, and self-trust.
• Why the holidays feel so hard on your body and nervous system
• The deep connection between gut health and stress
• Why restriction increases inflammation and emotional eating
• How to choose regulation over control during chaotic seasons
• Simple ways to stabilize blood sugar, digestion, and mood
• How to create emotional boundaries without explanation
• Why healing is about returning to yourself, not handling things perfectly
• How January is about coming back to yourself, not becoming someone new
Your body does not experience the holidays as joy. It experiences change and stress.
Gut symptoms, cravings, mood swings, and fatigue are not failures. They are biological responses to overload.
Restriction is not regulation. Your body heals when it feels safe, supported, and steady.
Stability starts with how you wake up, how you fuel your body, and how often you pause.
Healing is measured by how quickly you come back to yourself, not by avoiding hard moments.
• Creating a steady morning start with breath and intention
• Eating to stabilize blood sugar rather than punish yourself
• Adding protein, hydration, and minerals for nervous system support
• Recognizing when your body needs rest instead of pushing
• Setting emotional boundaries by choosing what you do not carry
January is not about starting over. It is about resetting at the nervous system level.
Monica is opening enrollment for her RESET program, a six-week foundation designed to help you regulate your nervous system, restore energy, reduce inflammation, and reconnect with your body in a sustainable way.
She is also hosting a free January Masterclass where she will teach why willpower has not worked, why your body feels stuck, and what actually creates lasting change.
All details are available through the links above.
• Explore coaching programs and resources
You are not behind.
You are not broken.
You are becoming.
And you were made for so much more.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices