You run a career, a household, and handle a calendar full of endless logistics.

You are the CEO of your family’s health and rhythm —And here’s the truth:

You don’t need more pressure, rules, or perfection to thrive right now. What will benefit you most going into the New Year is a clear plan that protects your energy and fills your cup.

This is your end-of-year playbook.

✅1. Choose YOU

Ask yourself these questions before committing your time and energy to a project.

Does this support my vision, goals and wellness? If not, its fine to say “No.” Remember that “No” is a complete sentence.

Your energy is a finite resource.

Spend it deliberately.

✅2. Protect Routines

You don’t need it to be perfect — but you need anchor habits that steady your body and mind.

What new habits are you cultivating in your daily routine? Stacking habits is one way we work with patients to help them reach their goals. From ensuring you get a full night sleep and changing snacking habits to increasing exercise and adding daily meditation to your routine… habit stacking goes a long way.

What are your goals for the New Year and how will you reach them?

Developing “High-yield” habits that protect mood, boost immunity, increase metabolism, and strengthen resilience support you in reaching your goals.

See how DPC helps you find clarity.

✅3. Build in Recovery Time — Not Just Activity

Executives schedule recovery cycles. Athletes schedule rest days. Families thrive when pauses are planned, not leftover.

Try to calendar: Recovery morning after big events, Downtime for unstructured family evening, laundry and rest day after big travel, or a “no committment” day between holidays.

Quiet space isn’t indulgence. It is intentional foundation for stability and clarity.

✅4. Hold Family Emotional Tone — Without Holding Every Emotion

As the family wellness leader, you influence the environment —

but you don’t need to absorb everyone’s stress or expectations.

Practice leadership-energy:

You model peace, presence, and emotional maturity — not overfunctioning.

✅4. Seed the New Year With Clarity — Not Pressure

You don’t need resolutions. You need new habits that point you in the direction of your goals.

End-of-year reflection prompts: What habits kept you well this year? What routines anchor you and your family? What supports would you like in place and where could you welcome those into your life? How can you adjust your routines to maximize your wellness in small manageable ways?

The goal: Start January with alignment and momentum.

✅5. DPC: Your Partner in a Strong Start

As your physician and wellness partner, DPC gives you:

✨ Accessible care and a Partner in Wellness

✨ Preventive Care and Accountability

✨ Mental health + Stress support

✨ Holistic, family-centered guidance

✨ Same-day access when you need it most

✨ No healthcare hassles taking up your bandwidth

Enter the new year with clarity, support, and confidence.

You don’t need to do it alone — you just need a system designed for working families.

You are the CEO of your family.

You are building a life.

You deserve structure and peace —

Finish this year the way you intend to live the next:

With clarity and peace of mind.

Start the year with clarity, support, and a care model designed around your life.

The holidays can bring joy, nostalgia, and family connection — and also… expectations, opinions, overstimulation, and emotional landmines.

As a working mom, you already carry a lot: career deadlines, school logistics, household operations, childcare, meal planning, emotional support, and holiday magic-making.

Add extended family dynamics — in-laws, intergenerational traditions, different parenting philosophies, cultural expectations — and suddenly the season meant for connection can feel burdensome.

This year, let’s shift: from managing everything to creating intentional peace, partnership, and spaciousness to receive.

Prepare — Not Just Logistically

Choose to schedule activites that fill you up and matter most for your family.

Where can you choose simplicity? What can you Let Go of this year

This clarity anchors you.

Learn how having a doctor who truly knows your family changes everything.

Align With Your Partner (Before the Chaos Begins)

Healthy families run on teamwork — one person cannot work in a vaccuum and sometimes 2 people cannot even get it all done.

Try a 10-minute weekly holiday sync: to divide up responsbilities and ensure you are on the same page for events and logistics. This really does go a long way to avoid confusion and conflict later

Divide up tasks based on capacity & preference. Then — and this is the growth edge —release control of the how.If your partner wraps gifts differently, dresses the kids differently, or loads the dishwasher the “wrong way”… Let. It. Go.That’s love, partnership, and nervous-system peace.

Detach with love.Not controlling or correcting everything = freedom.

The Sandwich Generation Reality

Many moms are caring for kids — and aging parents — at the same time. It’s sacred, and it’s exhausting.

During gatherings: Lower your expectations so that you can enjoy what is and schedule breaks and step outside to breathe, stretch, reset.

When you stop showing up as the director, everything changes and you can take responsiblity for yourself.

Healthy Boundaries ARE LOVE in Action

Changing the way you approach your thinking about things and your responses to others… might look like:

• “We’re keeping things simple this year.”
• “We parent differently, and that’s okay.”
• “I love you and I am not available to have that conversation right now.”

Your tone can be soft. Your boundary can be firm.

Regulate Your Nervous System in the Moment

When emotions rise, choose presence over reaction:

• 4 slow breaths
• Name what’s happening: I feel overwhelmed, not wrong.
• Step outside for air
• Put a hand on your heart

Your peace is worth protecting.

You Don’t Have to Earn Rest

You don’t need to “deserve” rest. Everyone needs to take breaks. In fact, the breaks are what give us the energy to move forward more efficiently…

Schedule nourishing pauses like appointments:

• 🕯️ quiet coffee before everyone wakes
• 🧘‍♀️ gentle movement / yoga / tai chi
• 📚 20 minutes to read
• 🚶‍♀️ walk outside alone
• 💆‍♀️ an hour off-grid to breathe

Rest is not indulgence. Rest is necessary for effective leadership and good relations.

This season…………..

Connection — not control.

Presence — not perfection.

You are doing an amazing job.

Your family doesn’t need a perfect holiday —

they just need you, grounded and well.

If you’re craving more calm, connection, and clarity — support is one click away.

The holidays bring joy…. and a calendar that fills faster than a Target cart on December 1st. School events, office deadlines, travel plans, teacher gifts, family dinners… Before you know it, the month is almost gone — and so is your energy.

For working moms, December can feel less like celebration and more like project management with glitter.

At Roots Health DPC, we don’t believe your health should take a holiday. So what is the goal? Not “surviving the season,” but being present for it with energy, calm, and intentional joy.

Let’s protect what matters most — your time, your wellness, and your peace.

✅ Time-Blocking: Your #1 Holiday Health Strategy

If it’s not on the calendar, it doesn’t happen. Especially during December.

Most Mom’s calendars include:

• School Events
• Kids’ sports & activities
• Work & meetings
• Travel
• Holiday social events

But many forget to schedule the things that keep them functioning.

So this holiday season, try blocking time for:

Recharge Rituals

• 10-minute guided meditation (morning is ideal to set stage for the day)
• A bath + audiobook (I like this at the end to unwind)
• Sitting with coffee in silence before kids wake
• A “nothing hour” on Sundays

Movement That Nourishes You

• Gym sessions
• Yoga or Pilates
• Lunchtime walk with sunlight

Self-Care Breaks

• Read a chapter of that book you were trying to finish
• Call a friend who fills your cup
• Journal gratitudes daily
• Tai Chi class, stretching, or breathwork

Put these in your calendar the same way you schedule all the other stuff on your calendar.

Self-care is not spontaneous. It’s intentional and scheduled.

Ready to see why more families are switching to smarter, stress-free healthcare?

✅ Set Your “Non-Negotiable” December Boundaries

Choose 2–3 personal health priorities and commit:

✔️ 7 hours of sleep minimum

✔️ Movement most days

✔️ Nutrition that fuels energy (add protein + greens before sugar)

✔️ No holiday decision-making after 8pm (decision fatigue sets in)

Boundaries protect your body and your bandwidth.

✅ “Energy Budget” to see what goes on the calendar

This season, ask:

➡️ Does this nourish me?

➡️ Does this align with our family values?

➡️ Is this a “should” or a “want”?

Give yourself permission to say: “We’re keeping this season simple.”

It’s not less festive. It’s more intentional.

✅ Why DPC Helps You Actually Stay Well During Busy Seasons

With a Direct Primary Care membership, health never drops to the bottom of the list:

✨ Same-day visits

✨ Easy text access

✨ Stress + sleep support

✨ Personalized supplement + preventive guidance

✨ Labs + check-ins without waiting months

No rushing. No reactive medicine.

Just a doctor who knows your family — and helps you stay well through the chaos.

This season isn’t about doing everything. It’s about protecting what matters: your energy, your health, your presence.

Your time matters. Your health matters. Let’s take care of both—starting now.

Because the best gift you can give your family is a healthy, rested, joyful you.

The holidays are magical—but let’s be honest: this is also prime sick-season.

Colds, flu, RSV, strep… suddenly every child, coworker, and playmate can be a risk fro germ exposure.

For working moms who are balancing meetings, meals, school drop-offs, and holiday events….one sick day can turn into a week of disruption. We know you don’t have time for that.

At Roots Health DPC, our goal is to help your family stay healthy and recover quickly, so you can enjoy the season (and show up at work without stress).

Let’s build your Sick-Season Survival Plan.

✅ 1. Prevention First: What Actually Works

Forget the TikTok immunity hacks. Evidence-based seasonal immunity support includes:

1. Prioritizing 7+ hours of sleep
2. Vitamin D + zinc (if appropriate; personalized dosing is ideal)
3. Daily movement/exercise, even 10–15 minutes
4. Keeping sugar + alcohol reasonable (immune-sparing)
5. Hydrating like it’s your job
6. Handwashing and hand sanitizer
7. Saline nasal spray or rinse after flights/crowded events

💡 DPC Mom Tip: Make a family “night routine basket”: books, calming night light, humidifier nearby. Sleep is immune medicine.

✅ 2. When Illness Hits: Smart, Calm Response

Instead of using Dr Google or going to urgent care, use a plan:

1. Reach out to Your DPC Doc
2. Honey for cough (age > 1)
3. Acetaminophen/ibuprofen rotation guidelines
4. Humidifier + gentle steam
5. Nasal saline + suction for young kids

And remember:

1. Antibiotics don’t treat viruses…. but can give you diarrhea.
2. Fever isn’t the enemy; dehydration is. Lots of fluids are key

💚 Bonus of DPC: Same-day access, texting your doctor, rapid testing, and guidance so you don’t waste hours in waiting rooms.

LEARN THE MODEL THAT SAVES PARENTS TIME, MONEY, AND ENDLESS URGENT-CARE VISITS.

✅ 3. Know When to Seek Care

Call the doctor (or text, if you’re a DPC member) if there’s:

1. Breathing difficulty
2. Dehydration signs
3. High fever > 72 hours
4. Ear pain
5. Lethargy or concerning symptoms

Instead of guessing and overusing urgent care, you get professional reassurance fast.

✅ 4. Working Mom Sick-Season Systems

Success doesn’t happen by chance — it happens by planning. Try these real-life systems:

1. “Sick bin” ready to grab: thermometer, saline, honey, humidifier tabs, electrolyte packets
2. Emergency freezer meals for low-energy days
3. Car kit: tissues, wipes, extra water bottles, spare mask
4. School note template saved in phone
5. Backup childcare/partner “sick-day swap plan”

You don’t need to be superhuman — just prepared.

✅ 5. Why DPC Is a Working Mom’s Secret Weapon

Membership benefits that matter most in winter:

✨ Same-day/next-day visits

✨ Text your doctor for guidance

✨ Transparent pricing (no surprise bills)

✨ Avoid urgent care + long waits

✨ Whole-family preventive plan

✨ Partnership — not rushed “in-and-out” care

When your time is stretched thin and your family’s health is everything, having a direct line to your physician is the ultimate mom superpower.

This season, protect what matters most — your health, your energy, and your peace of mind.

START YOUR WINTER WITH A PLAN—AND A DOCTOR WHO HAS YOUR BACK.

You don’t need to juggle it all alone — we’ve got you.