YES! Good Enough IS Enough...Trust this


Welcome to The Reset Room — a place for reflection, regulation, and gentle perspective shifts. Christmas week doesn’t need to be perfect to be meaningful, and today’s reset is about letting yourself soften into that truth.

This week carries a lot.

Even when Christmas is joyful, it can still feel heavy —
full calendars, expectations, emotions, memories, and pressure to “get it right.”

So this week’s reset is intentionally simple and gentle.

Let it be good enough.


💫 A Christmas-Week Reset

This season doesn’t need:

  • perfect moods
  • perfect moments
  • perfect schedules
  • perfect harmony

It doesn’t need you performing joy or holding everything together flawlessly.

What matters most is something much quieter:

  • the tone you carry
  • the safety you create
  • the way you show up, even imperfectly

People and children don’t remember how everything looked.
They remember how it felt.

Warmth matters more than precision.
Calm matters more than control.
Presence matters more than perfection.


💛 A Gentle Co-Parent Reset

Christmas can stir comparison — between households, traditions, or experiences.

Here’s a grounding truth to hold onto this week:
You do not need to compete to be meaningful.

Your calm voice.
Your steady presence.
Your ability to let things be “enough.”

Those are gifts your children carry far beyond this week.

If plans aren’t ideal…
If timing feels awkward…
If emotions run close to the surface…

You are still allowed to choose ease.


🌼 A Short Mindfulness Reset

Read slowly — once is enough.

“I release the pressure to make this perfect.
I allow today to be simple, warm, and real.
What I offer is enough —
and I am enough as I am.”
🤍

Let that settle.


Closing Reset Thought

You don’t have to fix everything this week.
You don’t have to carry it all.

Let it be good enough.
Let that be plenty.

I hope this week meets you gently.
And if it doesn’t — I hope you meet yourself gently anyway.

🎄💛

Tina Souder, M.Ed., LPC-S

I’m a counselor, counselor supervisor, and parenting facilitator/coordinator passionate about mental health — especially when it comes to helping families navigate coparenting. My focus is on reducing the stress and conflict that can impact both adults and children. Subscribe and join over 1,000+ newsletter readers each week.

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