#302: The Gift of a Gentle Start—How to Ease Into the New Year
January can feel like everyone else hit the “GO” button while I’m still standing in my living room wondering if a bomb went off over the holidays.
If you’re still putting decorations away, finding glitter in places glitter shouldn’t be, and feeling like you’re already behind on a year you just started, I want to invite you to take a breath — you’re not doing anything wrong.
Today we’re talking about the gift of a gentle start—especially for Highly Sensitive People.
- No rushing into the new year.
- No reinventing yourself with “New Year, New You!”
- No pressure to hit the ground running. (In fact, you don’t need to hit anything… )
I want to just invite us to take a calmer, kinder approach to the new year.
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- Episode #302 Transcript — COMING SOON!
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Cheri Gregory
Through scripture and story-telling, Cheri Gregory delights in helping women draw closer to Jesus, the Strength of every tender heart.
Cheri is the co-facilitator of Sensitive & Strong: the place for the HSP Christian woman to find connection. And she’s the founder of Write Beside You coaching for HSP Christian writers, coaches, and speakers.
Cheri speaks locally and internationally for women’s events and educational conferences. She’s also the coauthor of five books: You Don’t Have to Try So Hard, Overwhelmed, and An Abundant Place (with Kathi Lipp); Sensitive & Strong (with Denise J. Hughes); and Exhale (with Amy Carrol).
Cheri and her college sweetheart, Daniel, have been married for over three decades; they’ve spent the last 19 years living and serving on the campus of Monterey Bay Academy on the central California coast.
You can connect with Cheri thru her website, on Facebook, and via Instagram.
Transcript
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Grit ‘n’ Grace — The Podcast for Highly Sensitive Christian Women
Episode #302: The Gift of a Gentle Start—How to Ease Into the New Year
COMING SOON!
LOVED hearing this again even though I’ve been practicing my Feb 1st New Years for several years now. But I never associated my post holiday “impulse shopping” with feeling depleted!! I recently used the word drained to describe entering this new year, depleted is certainly how I feel after living our first 14 months in our latest fixer-upper while simultaneously becoming a multi generational family “pod”. Hence the new house, they live in our guest house. Every level of every emotion or physical ability is depleted, nothing escaped the wear and tear 🤨 so I decided this year HOBBIES seriously need to come back into my lifestyle or I’ll go insane. Last weekend I spent many hours pursuing on line decorative painting resources and put well over $100 worth in my virtual cart. 🤦🏻♀️ while listening to your podcast the next day a light bulb clicked on. Not only did it explain my behavior, it allowed me to give grace to the accompanying shame, which is of much greater value to me than the dollars. I went back to my cart the following morning with intention, considering needs and expectations in a healthy manner. THANK YOU. now I have the freedom to buy what I think I’ll need and (fully) enjoy painting.