Christmas Gone Wild: How to Manage Your Holiday Stress

Holidays have ever been played-out by the media as warm, huggy images. The majority of us, though, have yet to meet the often sung about "peace and joy". Stress and depression seem the only visitors at our door each year, leaving us with a longing for the kind of Christmas rush that our TV dangles as "out there". So in place of the same blue funk this year, why not get creative with it! Snowball some personal, icy cycles into the fray. Your envy will thank you for it!

Back in the Day!

Remember how terrific Christmas was when dad was partnered to mom instead of his current squeeze Greg? Share your memories of holidays gone-good in loud, raucous voice ribboned with wistful looks and reflective sighs. Freely interrupt anyone who thinks it okay to celebrate in Dr. Phil present-time with confident sing of the Beatles' "Yesterday". Blame everything off-center on post traumatic familial disorder instigated by selfish others!

Relatively Speaking.

Why accept family members and friends as they are? That's new-age blog meant to melt one wimped. Parents are supposed to meet certain expectations; so are siblings, friends and lovers! Chat-up all the times they've let you down in the past; remind them of their shortcomings with vivid repeat replays. They may have forgotten what they did to you but you never will!But hey! you are the grown-up here so gift them "insight" on why they should change. Use your own mature behaviors as yardstick for their"improvement".

Shifting Face.

It's all right to devour every Godiva chocolate and inhale pricey vodka; after all, you rarely imbibe indulgences and they are freebies! Block-out how excessive consumption can crash emotions/energy; trigger irritability. Bypass all exercise as lethargy, fatigue and sugar/nicotine/alcohol highs can fast forward emotionspast Santa flaws.

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