The holiday season can be a joyful time filled with celebration, but it can also bring stress and overwhelm. Taking time for self-care is essential to ensure you’re able to enjoy the festivities and maintain your well-being. Here are some self-care ideas to help you navigate the upcoming holidays with ease: Scented Candles I love [...]
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Three Tips for Navigating Holiday Stress
Self-Care Tips for Dealing with Grief, Loneliness, and Family Tension The Hallmark Channel has made a fortune providing subscribers a vision of Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas as a wonderful festive time where problems are worked out by New Year, but it's not that way for most of us. Holiday escapism into holiday-themed movies, books and [...]
It’s Okay if there are “knots” this Holiday Season
Someone posted this on social media. I know it was meant to be a chuckle to get us through the stress of the holiday season and I feel most of us see it and identify deeply. Something else came to mind for me. A good friend’s grandmother extolled this: If a string is in a [...]
The Holidays as an Opportunity to Grow
By Jennifer Drum, Resident in Counseling This time of year is as emotionally colorful as the lights we see in store windows.  Holidays, like other yearly marked events, offer us an opportunity to look inside our hearts to see where we have arrived as of now.  We may find ourselves not just reflecting on ourselves but also [...]
Tips for dealing with stress over the holidays
By Jack Fox, M.A., Resident in Counseling Photo by Nathan Anderson on Unsplash We know the stress of the holidays can be a lot. Here are two simple tips to keep in mind to keep stress at bay. 1) Don’t break the bank to try and show you love or care. Many people try to show their family and [...]
The 5 Signs of Burnout
By Dr. Debra Rezendes, HMT Resident in Marriage and Family Therapy During the holidays, there can be a lot of emotional resources going out. One way that we can practice self-care is to recognize the signs of burnout and pull back when we feel like too much of ourselves is going into caring for others. [...]
5 Tips for Managing Stress Around your Family This Time of Year
It’s not always “Happy Holidays” during this time of year. Here are 5 tips for managing stress around your family this time of year. Did you know that 8 out of 10 Americans feel extra stressed during the holidays? Between financial stress, decorations, family and travel, the stress and anxiety can really pile on. We would [...]