Ep #129: Break the “All Bets Are Off” Holiday Mentality

This is the Strong Is a Mindset podcast, Episode #129.

It’s mid-December and the year is almost over. Let me help you finish it feeling good. This is the Strong Is a Mindset podcast, where you’ll learn how to build both a strong body and a strong mind by eating, moving, and thinking. I’m your host Physician, Personal Trainer, Certified Health Coach and Certified Life Coach, Carrie Holland.

Hey, how are you? What’s new? What’s good? So, what’s good here, it is nearly the middle of December. So, here in the U.S., we’re nearing the start of the holidays. You may be getting close to winter break, for those of you with kids in school. And likely, you’re looking at some time off and/or vacation. With that in mind, I wanted to write an episode to come out right at this time, to encourage you that this is not the time to hang it up, okay?

I’m going to be straight with you today and say it, because a number of my clients have said it to me. They think they need to just hang it up until January because it’s too hard to eat and exercise, take care of themselves, and do all the holiday things. But you don’t have to do that. You do not have to hang it up.

If you remember, around Thanksgiving I shared that there are 34 days between Thanksgiving and New Year’s this year; 34 days or about 9% of your year. Well, now we’re even closer to the start of a new year. This episode will come out on December 11th, and for some of you this may be around the time when you’ve had a number of holiday parties under your belt already.

Your to-do list may be loaded with various tasks and things that only happen around this time of year. And you may start to think to yourself, “I can just pick it up in January. I’ll just let it go. I’ll just start over come January. Let me just get through the holidays and whatever happens, happens. I’ll start fresh in the new year.”

I had a client I worked with who said exactly this. She said that in every year prior, her approach to the holidays was ‘whatever happens, happens.’ This woman is a busy mom of four, works full-time, is the primary earner in her family, and she most definitely felt the squeeze of the holidays. She said that, typically, by this time of the year she could feel resignation set in. She could feel herself shutting down and going into survival mode.

And so she would stop exercising. She would eat all the cookies. She would take home all the tins of holiday treats that work gave her, and basically let it go until New Year’s. But she decided that this time was going to be different. She recognized that year after year of taking that approach left her feeling not only exhausted but feeling unhealthy, because of all the food and lack of exercise.

She got to January 1 with zero gas in the tank; no energy. And she decided, “Not this time.” And so, instead of taking the holidays as a reason to scale back, she took it as a time to fine-tune and double down on her efforts.

She set a schedule for herself and she stuck to it. She got her workouts done. She set her alarm and got them done in the morning. She made it a point to leave her many holiday parties at a reasonable hour so she could get up the next day. And she made a number of decisions ahead of time about what she was going to eat and drink at those parties, including her approach to alcohol, which she decided to skip.

She decided the way that it made her feel the next day was not worth it to her, to have all the fizzy, fruity holiday drinks, so she skipped them. She made decisions about what kinds of food she would have at these parties. She looked at the menus ahead of time. She didn’t starve herself all day in anticipation of those parties, she walked into her events prepared.

She didn’t bake thousands of recipes at home with her kids, like she usually did, instead she chose a few of those recipes. She made those cookies and she gave most of them away. And she planned how she was going to treat herself with those cookies when she did have them. By the time she got to January 1st, she felt good. In fact, she felt better than good.

Not only did she not gain any weight, she maintained, which was her goal. But more importantly, she also felt good. She was proud of herself, as she should be. She didn’t feel like she had an enormous mountain to climb in order to get back on track once the holidays ended. And she felt that way because she didn’t let her habits come to a grinding halt like they had in years past.

Here’s the thing, it wasn’t perfect. She still missed an occasional workout. She still had cookies. She still ate more indulgent foods than she intended at some of her parties. But none of that mattered as much as her resolve did. None of that mattered because she decided that this time was going to be different. She decided ahead of time that she was not going to let ‘all bets are off’ be an option this year.

And she was committed to practicing her habits and keeping up with her routine, even when it felt hard. Because she knew that come January it would be worth it. And she proved herself right. She absolutely, 100% proved herself right. She hit January 1st without missing a beat.

There was no big reset. There was no Dry January. There was no need for a detox, because instead she just kept doing what she had already been doing. There was no drama. There was no production. She just kept on with her habits. That’s it.

So I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, but you are busy and my clients are busy. They are busy crushing it at work, at home, and in the community, taking care of everything and everybody. And for many of them, they don’t get a break. Many of them are working through the holidays. Many of them have careers that don’t stop or give them much time off around the holidays. But they still have all the other holiday things going on too, and they’re trying to find a way to fit it all in.

So you combine an already busy schedule with lack of time, and all the pressure of the holidays, and you can see how it might be really easy to say, “All right, all bets are off. This is too much. I’ll get back to it in the new year. I’ll take care of myself again once things calm down and the holidays end.”

But I want this podcast episode to be your antidote to that. If you are feeling resigned, or if you’re feeling the pull to give up and leave the rest of your year to chance, I’ve got some other ideas for you. My goal is that this episode serves as your call to action to snap out of it, own your life, and own the days that you’ve got left between now and the new year.

Because you can still take care of yourself between now and January 1st. In fact, you can accomplish a lot between now and New Year’s, okay? So let’s bust this myth. The holidays do not mean you have to let go of your goals. The end of the year is not an invitation to press pause on your habits and resume in the new year. You can still eat, move, and think in a way that is supportive and empowering, so that you finish the year out as strong as you started it.

Alright, so let’s go. First, let’s talk about the ‘all bets are off’ mentality that affects so many people at this time of year. I want to break this down for you and get really clear on how taking this approach could really hurt you. Please know that it is really easy to fall into this mentality in the first place. It’s everywhere.

If you go to the news or check social media or even on TV, society has made letting go during the holidays a cultural norm. In fact, many businesses are depending on you doing exactly that so they can capitalize on how you feel in the new year and sell you a gym membership, a piece of workout equipment, a supplement, or a packaged food system.

They are hoping that you let it all go so that you turn around and need what they have, come January 1st. There is an entire system built around you letting go over the holidays, and this is why gym memberships soar at the beginning of the year. They are counting on you taking the ‘all bets are off’ approach.

And think about the other messages that are being sent at this time of year. It’s the holidays and it’s a time to treat yourself, right? Have the cookie. Have the eggnog. Have a second glass of champagne. Treat yourself. And while, yes, this may be a good time of year to treat yourself, like most things in our culture we tend to take it to the extreme and go really big.

So it’s not just treating yourself with a gingerbread cookie latte today. Instead, the message we’re getting hit with is treat yourself with a latte as often as you can this season. We take the ‘go-big-or-go-home’ approach to our food, our drinks, our alcohol, our parties. And at the end of the holiday season it all adds up. The ‘treat yourself’ mentality can last throughout the entire season.

But again, this year, that’s a 34-day season. So how much is really necessary to treat yourself? And if you were to ask Starbucks, you’d be in their stores every day. The other thing to take note of, that may be compelling you to take an ‘all bets are off’ approach to the holiday, is scarcity.

So think about it. When fall comes, pumpkin spice lattes are all the rage. At your family holiday party, there may be a special roast and stuffing that only appears during the holidays. You may make your grandma’s famous sugar cookie recipe once, and only once, during this time. This is the only time of year you can get Peppermint Stick ice cream at the grocery store. And I’m sure you can add your own examples.

The point here is that the food and drinks that only come out at this time of year can induce your scarcity mentality. So you may find yourself saying, “Oh, this is the only time of year I can get Peppermint Stick ice cream, so I’ve got to live it up. I only make these sugar cookies once a year, so I’m going to make sure to eat them.”

And while there’s nothing wrong with enjoying these foods, or your Uncle Tom’s famous eggnog, I’m only encouraging you to check in with yourself and see if scarcity is playing into your food decisions. Because what happens when you come at your food from a place of scarcity, is the fear of missing out. It’s FOMO.

Meaning, you start creating all kinds of stories in your head about how you’re missing out if you don’t eat the cookies or drink the eggnog or eat the stuffing. Because then you’ll have to wait another 365 days to have access to it again.

But the reality is, that’s just not true. We live in a world and in a culture where you can get pretty much anything you want; at any time you want. You can make your grandma’s sugar cookies any time of the year. If you really want a pumpkin spice latte in June, you can find a way to make it happen. You really aren’t missing out. If there’s something that you really truly want, you can have it.

Instead we create a story in our head that says, “It’s the holidays. This is the only time I can have these things.” And that could be leading you to feel scarcity. On an even deeper level, the scarcity mentality is giving food a power that it has no business having, okay? So you may be putting Peppermint Stick ice cream up on a pedestal and giving it way more power than any food should have over you.

Enjoy the Peppermint Stick ice cream or the eggnog or the cookies or the latte, but at the same time I encourage you to do a gut check and get really clear with yourself on what place of importance you’re giving that ice cream or that cookie. Because it’s when we give food too much importance in our lives that it becomes a problem.

There’s nothing wrong with finding joy in food. However, when we let that joy replace the joy that we’re not getting from other parts of our lives, that’s when it can become a problem. And that’s when we run into issues like treating holiday food with a scarcity mentality and resorting to an ‘all bets are off ‘approach. Okay?

Another factor, that is likely contributing to the ‘all bets are off’ mentality, is that you are busy. I agree, you are busy. In fact, I don’t know a single person on earth who isn’t busy, and this is especially true at the holidays. You’ve got your usual responsibilities, like work or home or family and kids. But then you’ve got the extra stuff, like holiday cards, extra baking, and cooking, and parties, shopping, travel. It can feel like too much.

It’s all of these things, that while they are fun, they cut into your already limited free time and may make it that much harder to stick to your routine. All of the holiday parties and fancy appetizers and drinks may be enough to lead you to say, “All right, that’s it. I’m just going to let it go. I can’t get on top of my schedule. I can’t find time, so forget it. I’ll get back on once the holidays are over.”

You’ve decided that it’s just too busy of a time to take care of yourself. Then, if you add that to a healthy dose of perfectionism, which many of you and many of my clients tend to struggle with, then you’ve got the perfect storm for giving up. So if you are a perfectionist, you may see the holidays and the busyness and the parties and the travel and the change to your schedule and routine, you may see all of that as a reason to say, “Forget it. If I can’t stick to my plan, and if I can’t do it exactly perfectly, then to heck with it. Why bother?” And you may decide all bets are off.

So this is black-and-white thinking, which goes hand in hand with perfectionism. You’re either all in or you are totally off the rails, there is no in-between. So you take that black-and-white thinking, you mix that with perfectionism, you combine that with being especially busy, and the cultural narrative that normalizes the idea of letting go during the holidays, and what do you have? You’ve got all kinds of reasons you could tell yourself that the rest of the year is a wash.

You could take that route and decide you’re done until the new year. So it makes total sense that you might feel stuck during the holiday season. It makes total sense that you might give in, let the holidays come and go, decide that all bets are off, and you’ll get back on track later. If you take that route, and if you let the busyness and the hoopla of the holidays mean that it is impossible for you to stick to your goals, you may notice a couple of things.

You might notice that you feel stuck, or even worse, you may feel like you’re going backwards, and creating an even deeper divide between where you are and where you want to be. When you give up on your diet, instead of trying to find ways to eat veggies and protein and fruit, despite all of the cookies around you…

Or if you stop exercising all together, instead of getting creative and trying to find ways to fit exercise in between all of your holiday parties and travel, then you might feel like the holidays are getting you farther and farther away from your goals. That can lead to serious guilt and frustration, and I’ve seen many of my clients go through this unnecessarily.

You might feel like, come January 1st, you’re starting all over again. You might feel like you are at square one. And you might feel like you’ve got a long way to go to get back on track. Instead of building on the momentum that you’ve already created, by following through on your habits imperfectly throughout the holidays, and letting that be enough.

When you let go of your habits during the holidays, you’re essentially starting a new habit. So remember what James Clear says in Atomic Habits: One miss is an outlier. Two misses in a row are the start of a new habit. And I really truly believe in that.

Because we are all human, and we’re all susceptible to skipping workouts and eating more sugar cookies than we intended, but I take James Clear’s advice as don’t miss twice, okay? Do everything you can to not miss twice.

The reason for this is that it’s easy to let one missed workout turn into two missed workouts, and then it turns into a whole week of missed workouts, and then it turns into, “Well, forget it. I’ll just let the rest of December go and I’ll try again in January.” You just built yourself a new habit of not exercising by letting one missed workout turn into multiple missed workouts.

Then, when January comes and it’s really stinking cold and snowy and icky, and you’ve got to get back into the swing of early morning workouts, you might feel like you’ve lost a lot of progress and are starting all over again in order to get back into a rhythm of regular workouts.

The same is true with your nutrition. If you have been on point, and then you let a few extra cookies turn into multiple days of extra cookies, and then you let that turn into nightly scoops of candy from the Christmas tin that your Aunt Marge sent you, well, you can see how that can pretty easily turn into a sweets habit that you’ve spent all year trying to undo.

So, come January 1st, you may feel that you’ve got a ways to go to get back to that space where you don’t overdo it on sweets as part of your routine. And last, the other thing that commonly happens when you decide that all bets are off over the holidays, is that you just don’t feel good. Let me explain.

That extra cookie, or that extra glass of eggnog, or that extra helping of tenderloin, or that extra few minutes of sleep, all of those may feel good in the moment. But you know what comes later, you don’t feel awesome in multiple ways. Physically, you might feel gross from all the extra food and all the indulgent treats and alcohol that you’ve consumed. You might feel bloated. You might gain weight. You might not feel strong.

And you might feel like you’ve lost some of your cardiovascular conditioning, or that your physique is not what it was a month ago. So, yes, there are most definitely physical impacts from letting the holidays be a wash, but don’t forget the mental and emotional toll it can take. And this goes back to a theme that comes up all the time here. This is what it’s about right here, and I will say it over and over again for anyone who needs to hear it.

When you take care of yourself, everyone around you wins, including you. Okay? When you take care of yourself, everyone around you wins, especially you. And this is especially true during the holidays. So many of the women I work with, they start working with me because they are spent. These women have spent years or even decades taking care of everything and everybody, and it’s been at the expense of their own physical and emotional wellbeing.

We work to correct that. We put a lot, a lot, a lot of time and effort into making her more of a priority in her own life. And when that starts to backslide, she feels it. She feels tired physically and mentally. She feels irritated. She feels stressed. She doesn’t have as much energy as usual. She may even feel resentful towards work, friends, or family. And the holidays become more of a slog than something to enjoy. It’s not good.

If you’ve ever been there, you know exactly what I’m talking about. I call it “getting twitchy”. You feel the twitch of needing to take care of yourself, but you’re not doing it. And the longer you let it go, the more twitchy you get. When you’ve had a taste of what it feels like to take care of yourself, you know that it feels good and you don’t want to let that go.

So if the holidays come and you feel yourself starting to slip away from those habits, you will feel it. I call it “twitchy”; you may describe it another way. However you describe it, it doesn’t feel good and it may ultimately impact your attitude towards the holidays.

I can remember, in my first year of coaching, one of my very first clients shared with me how she couldn’t wait for the holidays to be over because she always ended the year feeling tired, stressed, and bloated. She said the words, “I always feel like I need a detox.” And so we worked really, really hard to change that.

Leading up to the holidays, she had put so many great systems in place. She was getting up early for morning weight training before going to the office. She was doing meal prep on the weekends. She was prioritizing protein. She cut out a ton of ultra-processed foods from her diet. She cut back on alcohol. She had loads of really positive habits that she put in place.

And then we challenged the idea that she had to end the year like she had ended every other year in recent memory. We challenged the idea that the holidays had to be something to hurry up and get through so she could get back to her regularly scheduled program. And we talked through all the potential obstacles, like the parties and the cookies, and her very large Italian family pushing food on her.

How she would respond, how she could establish boundaries, and still get decent sleep to get up for early workouts. And all the while, we did this with two goals in mind. One, keep her habits alive and keep up with routines as much as possible during the holidays so that she didn’t feel like she was losing progress or momentum. And two, actually enjoy the holidays instead of wanting them to hurry up and be over already.

And that is what she did. She got to New Year’s still exercising, even if she missed a few workouts for travel. She started the new year, after having fun at a New Year’s Eve party, but she wasn’t hung over from too much champagne. She wasn’t bloated from loads of food. She made some decisions in advance of the holidays and she practiced following through on them. That’s it. She changed her default and decided all bets are not off for her.

So as I’m thinking about this client, and as I’m thinking about many of the challenges other clients have run into around the holidays, I want to bust up some of the myths that might be keeping you stuck and needing you to adopt an ‘all bets are off’ approach.

First is the myth that the holidays are incompatible with self-discipline. Again, this may go back to some of the messages that we are being fed about the holidays through social media, pop culture, your family, your friends, or all of the above. You may have the belief that this is just the time of year when everything goes off the rails. And that belief may be locked in because that has been your approach for years, or even decades.

So let me spell this out for you. If you have made the decision that holidays mean practicing any sort of self-discipline around exercise, food, or alcohol is out the window, what does that create for you? What happens when you decide that the holidays mean you can’t have discipline? Well, it’s like anything else.

If you decide that the holidays are incompatible with discipline, then that is the reality you’re going to create. And it’s going to be really easy for you to say yes, when someone offers you a Peppermint Stick mocha and a Christmas cookie. It’s going to be really easy for you to not bother finding ways to exercise while you stay with your sister. It will be really easy to over drink and have one too many glasses of eggnog or champagne.

Because if you decide that the holidays mean discipline is out, then that is the reality you will have, and you’re probably not going to feel super awesome by New Year’s Day. And I would just point out that it doesn’t have to go that way. You can make a different decision this year. You can decide that it is possible to make decisions in advance and practice following through on them.

And you can decide that you’re going to arrive on January 1st feeling proud of yourself. You do not have to cave in. And you do not have to do what you’ve always done and accept that holidays mean that discipline goes out the window. No.

So that is the approach I take. Our house often gets filled with loads of different Christmas cookies. And there’s often Christmas gift baskets and tins and snack mixes that get sent to us. So if you go into our pantry at this time of year, you will find all kinds of holiday treats that you wouldn’t see at any other time of year.

And with that, if I want to treat myself, I make a very conscious decision about what and how much of a treat I’m going to have. And then I’m done with it. I practice following through. I don’t stress myself out about all the food in the pantry. Instead I decide, “This is what I’m going to have. This is how much,” and then I’m going to have it and be done with it. I’m going to get on with my life.

I don’t make a handful of mixed nuts from a Christmas tin mean anything. I also don’t let a serving of holiday nuts turn into two, into three, into a food bender. I don’t let a handful of nuts be a reason to keep eating more handfuls of nuts. I don’t tell myself that discipline is out the window because there’s a tin of nuts in my pantry. Instead, I stay calm. I have the nuts or the Christmas cookie, and then I get on with my day. And I prove to myself that the holidays and the food in my pantry don’t mean discipline is done.

I succeed at this because I make that decision and I use that as my filter. My filter is, “I can have discipline and treat myself without going off the rails, even during the holidays.” So I make that decision and then I practice following through. I keep the drama out of it, because holidays and discipline are not mutually exclusive. Okay?

All right, another myth I want to bust, that surfaces often at the end of the year is this. You might be telling yourself, “I deserve a break during the holidays.” And while, yes, I most certainly want you to take a break over the holidays, regroup and recharge, and do whatever you need to do to come back in 2025 feeling energized, I’m going to guess that eating your weight in gingerbread men is not going to do that. Or letting your exercise come to a grinding halt is also not going to do it.

Letting go of all your habits, that is not the kind of break that is going to energize you for the new year. So while, yes, I do think most everyone could handle a break at this time of year, I want to clarify what I do and what I don’t mean when I say that. No one is inherently entitled to eat whatever they want, whenever they want, without gaining weight. No matter who you are, and no matter what time of year it is.

If you justify your food decisions by declaring that you need a break and anything goes over the holidays, then I would be prepared to feel it come January 1st; and I don’t just mean the scale. Think about how you feel after weeks of eating super rich foods, drinking alcohol, and not moving your body. How does that feel? What do you feel like in your body?

I don’t know about you, but I feel gross. And that is not how I want to feel to end my year. And so, while, yes, I want a break, I don’t want an extended break for my habits. I don’t want a food bender. And part of that stems from this concept. So for those of you who have worked really hard to put routines in place, like exercising consistently and eating healthy, that may be part of your self-care routine. So eating well and exercising are the clues that tell you you’re taking care of yourself.

And during what is considered the busiest time of year, you may crave those routines to keep you grounded and keep you calm and peaceful during the holiday. The last thing you want to do is give yourself an extended break from those routines. Because, sometimes, sticking to your routines and keeping up with your exercise and healthy eating is one of the best forms of self-care you can give yourself. Especially during the holidays.

So while, yes, you can take a break, be real with yourself and clarify what that means. A break does not necessarily mean that everything stops. A break does not mean you revert to all of your old habits. A break does not have to mean that you give up all of your current routines, okay?

All right, the last myth I want to bust up is the myth that there is no point in sticking with any habits or routine until January. So this is taking the ‘whatever’ or ‘why bother’ approach. This is the defeatist, ‘throw your hands in the air’ approach that essentially discounts any small progress that you make between now and the new year.

But if you’ve hung around with me at all, you know what I’m going to say. Small action, especially at the holidays, is still action. In fact, you can take the “small” descriptor out of it. Small action is better than no action at all. And small action, when done repeatedly, adds up to big change. Okay?

So this is putting in your reps. You keep showing up every day during the holidays and take the attitude of, “Okay, I’m here. This is what’s in front of me. This is what’s going on today. This is the party I have. This is what’s sitting in the break room at work. This is my schedule. How can I come out feeling good here? How can I come out on top?”

And then you work the process backwards. You make decisions that align with your goal of feeling good. And if you mess up and eat a ton of pizza when you meant to have none, fine. You make the next decision in front of you to be one that you’re proud of.

Remember, each decision you make about your diet and exercise is independent of the one before it. So even if you ate your weight in pizza during your work holiday party, that does not mean you have to eat a piece of Christmas cake as big as your face to go with it. The decision you made to have the pizza does not mean you are stuck eating cake next. You can decide to skip it.

Or just because you slept in and missed your morning boot camp after a late night, that doesn’t mean you skip your workouts for the rest of the week. You have the next morning to get up and go get your workout in. No one decision should determine the next decision in front of you. Okay? Make each decision Independent of the one before it.

And most important, remember that it all adds up. Maybe it doesn’t feel like much to skip cupcakes after eating loads of pizza. Maybe it doesn’t feel like much to have water instead of a second glass of wine, when your plan was to have zero glasses of wine. But you have to flip that script for yourself, okay? You have to decide that those decisions are enough.

So I can tell you that those decisions are enough, but it doesn’t matter what I think. You have to believe that there is a reason to not give up over the holidays. You have to believe that the small decisions you make, like putting down a half-consumed cup of eggnog instead of finishing it, you have to believe that it’s enough to prove it to yourself. Okay?

Let all of those small decisions add up and you will arrive at the new year with momentum. With all of that said, I want you to walk away from today knowing you can do this. This does not have to be another year of overindulging and overeating and over drinking until you hit the new year, only to need a cleanse. Okay? All bets are not off at the end of the year. There are plenty of things that you can do to stay on track, even if your life is busy and you find yourself off your routine.

So, of course treat yourself, but that does not mean treat yourself day in and day out until you flip the calendar. Have a plan for yourself. Make decisions in advance about how and when and how often you are going to indulge over the holidays. And practice following through.

All you are doing is practicing moderation here. You’re practicing having a treat without it turning into a downward spiral. Practice not letting any one decision mean that you are done. Because no one decision is going to make or break you over the holidays, unless you decide to give up on yourself.

If movement is important to you, find ways of fitting it in over the holidays. It does not have to be your usual 45-minute spin class. If you don’t have time, go for a walk, find a shorter strength training session, or do five minutes of push-ups and sit-ups before you go to bed; you can do it in your pajamas.

It doesn’t matter how big or small it is, you’re keeping the habit alive and that’s what matters. And the key here, whether it’s related to your diet, exercise, or really any form of self-care that you do over the holidays, let your small actions be enough. Practice believing that whatever effort you put in over the holidays is enough. Focus on what you can accomplish over the holidays, instead of beating yourself up over the things you can’t or don’t do.

Be nice to yourself without letting yourself off the hook. You’re not giving yourself a pass because it’s December, instead acknowledge that, yes, it’s a busy time but that doesn’t mean your habits go offline. You don’t go dormant just because it’s the end of the year. Remember, the holidays are a season, but they are not a reason to give up on yourself, okay? You’re in this for the haul, and every action you take now contributes to the lifestyle that you’ll have for years to come.

Remember, your commitment to yourself matters. Not just during the holidays, but all year long. All right? You’ve got this. I believe in you, and I am cheering you on. All right, if you want help with this, let’s go. When you coach with me, I will help you create habits that you can stick with all year long, and you’ll be prepared for times when it gets hard, like the holidays. Check out my website. Send me a message at www.CarrieHollandMD.com/contact and let’s talk about how changing your habits will change your life.

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