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As the holidays approach, family gatherings can stir up old wounds as easily as warm memories. In this episode, Elly and Isa explore how to heal holiday relationships by identifying emotional triggers and protecting your peace.

Licensed Professional Counselor and Central Texas trauma therapist Eleanor L. Brown shares faith-based insights and practical therapy tools for navigating family dynamics through the lens of Christian counseling. Together with co-host Isamary Nieves Banks, she blends Scripture and psychology to help you create emotional safety, regulate your nervous system, and reconnect with others in healthy ways.

Drawing from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, they focus on love and belonging—why connection matters and how to build it during the holidays without losing yourself in the process. Whether you struggle with family tension, old pain, or holiday stress, this conversation will give you tools to respond instead of react.

In this episode:
• Awareness of emotional triggers and stress responses
• Understanding fight, flight, freeze, and fawn in family gatherings
• Setting boundaries that protect peace without creating walls
• Inviting God into your emotional healing process
• Blending faith and therapy for whole-person healing
• Finding grace for yourself and others this holiday season

🕊️ A Better Way to Heal: Where Faith Meets Therapy is hosted by Eleanor L. Brown, LPC, a Central Texas trauma therapist, author, and speaker helping individuals move from simply surviving to thriving through faith and therapy.

📘 Learn more or find Elly’s book A Better Way: Integrating Faith and Psychology to Heal Inner Wounds at www.eleanorbrowncounseling.com.

Looking for a faith-based path toward emotional healing?
Download Elly’s free A Better Way Guide, a 6-step BETTER Framework that blends faith and therapy to help you recognize emotional triggers, build resilience, and start healing from the inside out.
Start your journey today at eleanorbrowncounseling.com/a-better-way-guide-freebie.

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Chapters

1. Welcome And Show Framing (00:00:00)

2. Faith And Therapy Together (00:02:45)

3. Maslow’s Needs And Belonging (00:05:45)

4. Circles Of Friendship And Safety (00:09:40)

5. Holidays, Conflict, And Scripture Lens (00:13:30)

6. Triggers: Awareness Before Action (00:18:44)

7. Nervous System And Fight Or Flight (00:23:09)

8. Mindfulness And Centering In Conflict (00:28:09)

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