Often the holidays bring up sadness, especially this year, with the added challenge of travel constraints, public health concerns, interrupted plans, loss and longing. In this episode, Lisa shares some self-care practices you can embrace to help you find greater ease while honoring difficult emotions without collapsing into them.  Self-compassion, heart-centered breathing, softening into the breath and awareness of body sensations are useful ways to shift into allowing and wriggle free from our conditioning that tells us not to feel. Set aside half an hour to tune in more deeply to your experience and see how much better you can feel - just by paying attention, with kindness.