Comfort & Growth with Crystal Lim-Lange

The festive season can be Overachiever hell! In this episode, Crystal shares her therapist-office breakdown and the 7 changes she made this year to stop being the "complaints department for the whole world." This isn't a prescriptive playbook—it's permission to choose what actually works for you.KEY TIMESTAMPS:[00:00] Cold open: "I feel like the complaints department for the entire world" [02:00] Why the festive season is a mental health hazard for overachievers [05:30] The therapist conversation that changed everything [08:45] "You're treating everyone like you're their line manager" [12:00] Change #1: Outsourcing the cooking (hello, private chef!) [16:30] Change #2: The Christmas Day shopping trip tradition [19:00] Change #3: Renting the Christmas tree [21:30] Change #4: The "no gifts" conversation with extended family [24:00] Change #5: Pre-briefing family like a CEO [28:00] Change #6: Disconnecting the wiring behind your buttons [32:00] Change #7: Resourcing yourself (sleep, self-care, massages!) [36:00] The invitation: You get to chooseQUOTABLE MOMENTS:"The more you do, the more you get. You've trained everyone that you're the go-to person.""You're treating everyone like you're their line manager. You're taking responsibility for outcomes that aren't yours to own.""You can participate without orchestrating. You can show up without sacrificing yourself.""Family will always push all your buttons. They know which combination activates the nuclear sequence. But you are the one who can disconnect the wiring behind the buttons.""The festive season doesn't get to steal your sanity. Not this year."RESOURCES MENTIONED:Chef Danny Tan – Private chef for festive gatherings (Christmas, CNY, and more) Instagram: ⁠@craftandfood⁠

"Failing is an option but fear is not!" Christel Quek Buchanan is the founder of one of SG's hottest startups - ChatandBuild, a AI super-app that has signed an MOU with OpenAI, and empowers anyone to build apps and games just by chatting.Christel is one of the most innovative, humble and intelligent friends I have, and I'm so happy to have her share her super interesting career with us.She shares stories from the Twitter early days, meeting Elon Musk, choosing curiosity over fear, and the essential ingredients for anyone who is interested in the path of entrepreneurship.Check out ChatandBuild and build your own app instantly for free!⁠https://chatandbuild.com/

Caitanya Tan, better known as Cait of All Traits, is a magnetic storyteller, self-professed Professional Explainer of sometimes very random things, & your unofficial ‘JieJie’ (big sister!) with over 500K followers on Tiktok and IG. I love her videos where she breaks down the idiosyncrasies of Singlish, English and why we speak the way we do. This week's ep is super fun and chaotic because you have 2 neurodivergent people having a free ranging conversation about unconventional careers, ADHD, being authentic, and always choosing to speak your truth!Get your Pointy Rice Cai Fan stickers here:https://pointyrice.com/Follow Cait here:https://www.instagram.com/caitofalltraits/https://www.tiktok.com/@caitofalltraits

Happy Season 3 everyone!!! I'm so happy to be back and I have so much to catch up with all of you about! Sharing some very personal life updates, existential questions, productivity tools and hacks as well as a sneak preview of what you can look forward to in Season 3 of Comfort and Growth!Resources mentioned:https://notebooklm.google.com/

I am thrilled to share one of my favourite people and also an amazing, super well respected relationship expert with you on the pod today! My dear friend (and ex-Sydney neighbour) Craig Tunnell is someone who I can always count on for funny, frank and practical relationship and love advice.Craig has worked helping people create transformation, healing and positive change in their lives for over 25 years in Australia and internationally.He also runs his own renowned Love Code relationship workshops around the world.As the Senior Supervising Facilitator and Director of Teacher Training of the Hoffman Process, Craig has been teaching and training internationally for 25 years.In the corporate arena he works with organisations helping leaders become more skilful, empowered and self aware and works extensively with creating stronger and aligned teams.Craig studied counselling with the Australian College of Applied Psychology and has studied many other modalities along with this. These include the Hoffman Process Facilitator Training, Essence Psychology, Relationship Training, Trauma and Attachment Training, Family Constellations, and Bioenergetics to name a few.You can find Craig here:IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/craigtunnell⁠Craig's website:And please join our special Deep Human collab LoveCode workshop with Craig⁠https://www.deep-human.com/events⁠