11/19/2025
💰🔥 **The Cost of Over-Giving: Money, Time & Energy During the Holidays**
The holidays don’t just stretch our wallets —
they stretch our **time**, our **peace**, and our **life-force.**
If you feel depleted, overextended, or pressured this season…
you’re not alone — and you’re not doing anything wrong.
Here’s what’s really happening ⤵️
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# # **💛 The 3 Currencies of the Soul**
This season drains three levels at once:
# # # **1. Money**
pressure to buy more, give more, impress more
# # # **2. Time**
endless events, rushing, overcommitting
# # # **3. Life-force (energy)**
holding emotional space, old family roles, constant stimulation
When any of these are overspent, your nervous system collapses under the weight.
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# # **🔥 The Energetics of Over-Giving**
Over-giving is not generosity.
It’s **self-abandonment** dressed in holiday colors.
You can feel it:
• saying “yes” when your body says “no”
• buying gifts from guilt instead of love
• taking on emotional labor
• trying to meet expectations you never agreed to
• giving your energy to keep peace in the room
This doesn’t create connection —
it creates resentment and depletion.
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# # **🌙 Your Presence Matters More Than Your Presents**
You don’t need to overspend.
You don’t need to overschedule.
You don’t need to perform.
Your presence — grounded, authentic, open —
is worth more than anything wrapped in paper.
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# # **🌿 Create Your ‘Sacred Yes’ & ‘Holy No’ Lists**
# # # **✨ Sacred Yes**
What brings expansion?
What nourishes your spirit?
What feels aligned?
Examples:
• meaningful time with loved ones
• making herbal gifts
• fire ceremony
• slow evenings
• rest
# # # **✨ Holy No**
What drains your energy?
What contracts your body?
What feels forced?
Examples:
• overspending
• rushing
• attending everything
• fixing everyone’s emotions
• saying yes out of guilt
Your body knows the truth.
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# # **🌬️ A Quick Energy Reset**
Close your eyes.
Place a hand on your heart.
Say quietly:
**“I release what is not mine.”**
**“My time is sacred.”**
**“My energy is precious.”**
Take one breath.
Feel your field return to you.
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# # **🌿 Herbal Allies to Rebuild Life-Force**
• **Nettles** — restores depleted systems
• **Milky Oats** — nourishes frazzled nerves
• **Reishi** — anchors spirit into body
• **Tulsi** — clears mental fog + brings clarity
Plants help refill the well when the world drains it.
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# # **✨ Remember This**
You can give from love without draining your life-force.
You can show up without abandoning yourself.
You can create a season that nourishes your soul.
Your energy is your most valuable currency.
Spend it with intention.
— **The Energetic Shaman**