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    Loving My Actual Christmas: An Experiment in Relishing the Season
    Loving My Actual Christmas: An Experiment in Relishing the Season
    Loving My Actual Christmas: An Experiment in Relishing the Season
    Audiobook3 hours

    Loving My Actual Christmas: An Experiment in Relishing the Season

    Written by Alexandra Kuykendall

    Narrated by Sarah Zimmerman

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The Christmas season is a particularly difficult time for women to slow down and relish what's right in front of them. An annual marker for many, it is a holiday that can often remind us how life is not going as we'd planned. Our family relationships remain strained, our finances stretched, and our schedules stuffed with too much to do in too little time. Following the formula of her successful Loving My Actual Life, Alexandra Kuykendall shares with readers her own personal experiment to be completely present in her life as it is during the holiday season. Addressing the themes of Advent and Christmas, she reflects on hope, love, joy, peace, and relishing the season, with practical pullouts on common Christmas stressors, such as finances, schedules, and extended family. Kuykendall's signature candor helps women go easy on themselves, remember what truly matters, and find joy in their imperfect Christmases.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristianAudio.com
    Release dateSep 5, 2017
    ISBN9781683668886

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    • 3/5
      This is not a devotional-type book; it’s mostly the author’s experience with trying to be more efficient and healthy with her holiday season. Less busy-ness = more peace. There are good reminders in here and the author is great at giving us permission to take it easy, to budget our resources in the best way for our family, etc. I think the best audience is someone who has a very fast-paced life and/or someone with small children. Also, I wish the author had read it herself. This narrator is good, but it would be more meaningful to hear the author speak directly to us since she feels what she is writing so deeply.