“Peace on Earth” sounds beautiful — until you read the fine print.

⚠️CW: This episode includes discussion of religious trauma, emotional abuse, family estrangement, divorce, and holiday-related triggers. Listener discretion advised.

In this episode, we talk honestly about what the holidays can feel like after religious trauma, estrangement, abuse, and financial survival mode.

We discuss:

• Why Christmas can trigger guilt, grief, and hypervigilance

• Navigating estrangement, separation, and complicated family dynamics

• The pressure to perform joy and forgiveness

• Being broke, burned out, and still expected to show up smiling

• Reclaiming peace without sacrificing yourself

This conversation is for anyone who feels relief and sadness at the same time during the holidays — and wonders if they’re doing something wrong.

You’re not.

You’re responding to what you lived through.

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