Festive reflections with Emerging Minds: What the holidays mean to us

This special holiday episode brings together team members from Emerging Minds—Alex, Alicia, Vicki, Kate, Jade, Dan, and host Nadia Rossi—to share personal reflections on what the holiday season means to them and their families. The conversation explores the importance of connection, family rituals, and finding flexibility in traditions when circumstances change.  

They also discuss the pressures and challenges that can accompany the holiday season, such as managing busy schedules, financial strain and navigating grief. Finally, the group share the hopes they have for their children and their memories of the holiday seasons spent together. 

“The stories and reflections in this episode are personal to our team and aren’t official Emerging Minds messages. Listeners should consider these experiences as individual stories rather than organisational guidance.”

In this episode you will hear:

• Kate, Alex,  Jade and Alicia talk about the upcoming holiday season and what this time of year means to them and their families [01:16].
• The group share the traditions or rituals their families enjoy during the holidays [04:03].
• Jade, Dan, Alex, and Kate talk about the ways they manage holiday pressures [12:03].
• Alicia, Kate and Jade discuss how they help their children understand and appreciate the diversity of how people celebrate or don’t celebrate these holidays [18:02].
• Kate, Jade, Vicki, Dan, and Alex offer insights on how they navigate difficulties that can arise during this season [22:17].  
• The group reflect on what they hope their children will remember about the holiday seasons shared together [27:22]. 

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