Edition 2025.11.26
In this issue: Do what matters: The holidays can sweep you up in pressure and plans—but they can also wake you up to what truly matters. In this issue, discover how to simplify with intention, reconnect with your yearnings, and feel more grounded, peaceful, and fulfilled this season.
Featuring insights from Judith, Bob, and the LiveWright Team.
If the holidays leave you feeling depleted or disconnected, this article will show you how a simple shift—from performance to presence—can restore meaning, connection, and calm.
For years, I led holiday gatherings with grace on the outside and stress churning underneath.
I prided myself on making everything meaningful for others—but I hadn’t asked what would feel meaningful for me.
Eventually, I realized: I was over-performing and under-receiving. The season wasn’t asking me to do more.
It was inviting me to be more present.
The holidays often awaken our yearning for connection, meaning, and belonging.
But when we focus only on what we’re “supposed to do,” we miss the deeper gift: to be in authentic connection—with others and ourselves.
⭐ Try This
Before any holiday event (even if it’s just a quiet moment), pause and ask:
What am I yearning for right now?
Let that guide your next choice—what you say yes to, how you show up, or what boundary you set.
When you honor your yearnings instead of overriding them, you’ll feel more grounded, connected, and whole—no matter what’s happening around you.
Join me and Bob for our upcoming free webinar: Power: Your Holidays Reimagined, happening December 11. You’ll learn how to move from holiday pressure to personal power—through real, practical tools.
The most powerful gift you can give yourself this season is permission—to be present, to honor your truth, and to connect from that place.
LiveWright with presence and peace,
Dr. Judith Wright
Feeling overcommitted or stretched thin? This reflection will help you reclaim calm and meaning—through one conscious choice.
One year, during a particularly hectic holiday, I found myself snapping at people I loved—because I was operating on autopilot. I had agreed to things out of obligation, not authenticity.
That year, Judith and I stopped. We sat down and talked honestly about what we each wanted. We let go of a few traditions. We simplified.
And the most surprising thing? It made everything feel richer.
Just because “you’ve always done it that way” doesn’t mean it’s still serving you. Power is the ability to pause, reassess, and choose again.
⭐ Try This
Take five minutes to look ahead at your December calendar. Circle what energizes you. Cross out what drains you. Choose one item to shift, simplify, or release.
That single change can open up space for joy, ease, and intentional connection. It’s a small act with a big ripple effect.
Want more tools like this?
Join us live on December 11 for Power: Your Holidays Reimagined – a free live webinar to help you simplify the season and reconnect with what really matters.
Free Webinar | 5:30–7:30 PM CT
Remember: You don’t need to overhaul everything to reclaim your holidays. One honest conversation. One simplified commitment. One moment of choice—that’s where power begins.
LiveWright, with intention and courage,
Dr. Bob Wright
If the holidays tend to leave you depleted, gratitude and presence can become your renewable source of energy—and just a few conscious choices can transform your entire season.
Thanksgiving sets the tone for the holidays—regardless of faith, culture, or nationality.
It’s the one moment where reflection, gratitude, and connection take center stage.
And when you use those same principles as your guide, the rest of the season becomes less about performing and more about showing up as your real self.
At LiveWright, we’ve seen again and again:
the holidays amplify what’s already true inside you.
Your yearnings get louder. Your patterns become more obvious.
Your truth rises to the surface—whether you welcome it or not.
That can feel like pressure.
Or it can become a portal—to self-awareness, to deeper connection, to a far more meaningful holiday experience.
Gratitude helps you enter that portal. It pulls you out of old roles and back into contact with your essential self.
When you lead from presence—not performance—you stop trying to manage the season and start shaping it.
⭐ Try This
Start a simple gratitude ritual that reconnects you to yourself:
• Morning: Name one moment in your upcoming day where you want to show up with presence.
• Evening: Write down what surprised you when you did.
You’ll discover that feeling grounded has very little to do with controlling circumstances—and everything to do with choosing how you show up inside them.
If you’re ready to move through the holidays with more intention, join us on December 11 for our free webinar:
Power: Your Holidays Reimagined
We’ll help you reframe this season—and your life—from the inside out.
As we move through Thanksgiving week, we invite you to pause, breathe, and return to what’s real. There is clarity in presence. Strength in truth. And possibility in every quiet, conscious step forward.
LiveWright, with gratitude and grounded presence,
Dr. Bob, Dr. Judith, and the whole LiveWright Team
