You're Not Crazy: A Podcast for Cycle Breakers with Toxic Parents · Torie Wiksell
The Holidays Are Hard for Cycle Breakers (and Why You Don’t Need to Do Them Perfectly)
December 23, 2025·13 min·1 clip
Why holidays trigger cycle breakers with toxic parents, from Hallmark images to family gatherings.
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A steady holiday reset for listeners ready to loosen perfectionism and think in the gray.
This holiday conversation keeps circling back to the same useful point: change gets harder when everything is treated like a test. The host frames cycle breakers, Christmas, and the turn into a new year through that lens, pushing against black-and-white thinking and leaving room…
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For when the holidays make everything feel louder than you want.
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