'Tis the season to feel utterly emotionally exhausted.

The holidays can bring up a lot for people. They activate everything: memory, longing, old roles, old wounds, and the body’s earliest survival strategies.

So how do we return to the present self in those moments?

Drawing from somatic psychology, attachment theory, and relational neuroscience, this episode explores how returning to old environments activates implicit memory, survival patterns, and younger versions of the self.

We’ll unpack hyper and hypoarousal, fawning, neuroception, somatic boundaries, and evidence-based grounding practices, offering ourselves a compassionate framework for navigating family systems with more regulation, awareness, and self-connection.

Cheers, y'all. We got this.

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