I am a wife, a mom of three, a lover of all things home, and the founder of The Common Nest.

As a Holistic Home Coach, I help busy, overwhelmed women create homes that feel peaceful, balanced, and full of joy.

Holistic Home Holidays is based on the Holistic Home Method.

I use this same process in my own life, and I created it to help women like you find calm and connection during one of the busiest seasons of the year.

Because I’ll be honest …

I used to feel like the holidays just happened to me.

I was doing all the things — decorating, baking, hosting, gifting, magic-making — yet I wasn’t really enjoying any of it. I was trying to meet everyone’s expectations, including my own ideas of what would make everyone happy, and somehow, it never quite did.

Growing up, I had mixed feelings about the holidays.

As a child of divorced parents and complex family dynamics, this season often carried feelings of confusion, longing, and disappointment.

I absorbed all these cultural messages about what the holidays should feel like joy, cheer, magic, but often, the reality fell flat.

As I grew older, things only became more complicated. I got married and suddenly there were more families, more traditions, more expectations to juggle. Then, when I became a mother, I felt an enormous pressure to create the “perfect” holiday experience for my children (the one I had always longed for).

In my effort to make it magical for everyone else, I overdid it. I would run on fumes, trying to hold it all together, trying to make the magic happen, and by the end, I was exhausted, depleted, and disconnected from the very joy I was trying to create.

Every year, I started out hopeful.

But before long, I’d find myself buried under the expectations, the endless to-do lists, and the quiet exhaustion that comes from juggling everyone else’s happiness while losing your own.

If you’re reading this, maybe you’ve felt that too — that mix of excitement and stress that comes with the season.

You want to enjoy it, but it often feels like too much: too much to do, too much to manage, too many people, too many expectations, too many boundaries to navigate.

And the truth is, the holidays are a lot.

Most of us enter the season already exhausted.

The holidays tend to magnify what’s already hard in our lives — the clutter, the busyness, the emotional load, the unrealistic expectations, and the complicated family dynamics.

We’re constantly shown this picture of the ideal holiday:

The matching pajamas, handmade cookies, elf on the shelf, Pinterest inspired decor, the picture perfect trees, and the list goes on.

And while those things can be beautiful, they often come at the expense of our peace.

We say yes to too many things — the social gatherings, the school concerts, the extra work deadlines before the new year. And before we know it, our homes are cluttered, our minds are scattered, and our hearts feel disconnected from the joy we were hoping for.

The result? Exhaustion. Guilt. Disconnection.
And that sinking feeling of being behind before we’ve even begun.

But here’s what I want you to know: The problem isn’t you. The problem is a cultural pattern.

We’ve been taught to chase perfection — to do it all and keep smiling through it — but what you’re truly craving is peace, joy, and connection.

That’s exactly why I created Holistic Home Holidays

As a way for us to step out of autopilot and into alignment.