Top 5 Holiday Stress-Busters & The Holiday Stress-Busting Guide
/"It's the most wonderful stressful time of the year!"
Holidays and family togetherness can be wonderful and/or miserable. Either way, there's a LOT to do over the holidays and it can get pretty stressful, and tense, quite quickly.
In response, a few years ago I was asked by a few TV stations to come talk about how to reduce stress over the holidays. The Top 5 Holiday Stress-Busters (
) is what I shared. That got me thinking about our own holiday stresses in our family and extended families as well as all the ways I've helped my clients deal with the stress of family togetherness over the holidays. So five stress-busters quickly turned into 100's of stress-busters for the holidays (see guide below).
While there are many things that contribute to holiday stress, in 2004, The American Psychological Association conducted a holiday stress survey and identified the top six stressors as follows:
Money
Gift-giving
Lack of time
Families
Diet
Children’s issues
This guide addresses each of these stressors in depth, as well as many others, with a focus on providing many more solutions than there are problems. That’s the way it should be.
This guide covers hundreds of ways to bust, cool, chill, deal and cope with all the various stresses of the holidays.
Here's what you'll get:
Hundreds and hundreds of practical, useful and effective stress-busting tips, strategies, mindsets, and techniques for dealing with every aspect of holiday stress.
Worksheets to help you put the concepts into action.
The 30-Day Stress Tracker and the 31-60-Day "Overlearning!" Stress-Tracker
Download your eBook copy now and start busting your holiday stress!
Just take a peek at the Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION
THE HOLIDAYS ARE NOT THE SAME FOR EVERYONE
STRESS 101
SIGNS & SYMPTOMS OF STRESS
ASSESS YOUR STRESS
WELL-BEING: PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, & MENTAL STRESS-BUSTERS
PHYSICAL HEALTH STRESS-BUSTERS
SIMPLE PHYSICAL & MENTAL WORKOUTS WORK
RELAXATION & MINDFULNESS
STRESS-BUSTING ATTITUDES & MINDSETS
MOOD STRESS-BUSTERS
MENTAL ILLNESS STRESS BUSTERS
GET HELP WHEN YOU NEED IT
RELATIONSHIP & FAMILY STRESS-BUSTERS
RELATIONSHIP & FAMILY CONFLICT STRESS-BUSTERS
BUSTING STRESS WITH THE CHILDREN
CONNECTING WITH YOUR KIDS OVER THE HOLIDAYS
SEPARATION & DIVORCE STRESS-BUSTERS
STEP-FAMILY STRESS-BUSTERS
BEREAVEMENT & GRIEVING OVER THE HOLIDAYS
MOURNING THE LOSS OF THE PAST YEAR
LONELINESS & ISOLATION STRESS-BUSTERS
USING SOCIAL SUPPORTS AS STRESS-BUSTERS
TIME & MONEY STRESS-BUSTERS
FINANCIAL STRESS-BUSTERS
TIME PRESSURE STRESS-BUSTERS
GIFT-GIVING STRESS-BUSTERS
SHOPPING STRESS-BUSTERS
HOLIDAY MEAL STRESS-BUSTERS
ADDITIONAL STRESS-BUSTERS
COUNTER COMMERCIALISM
EXAMINE YOUR TRADITIONS
TRAVELING STRESS-BUSTERS
SOME ADDITIONAL STRESS BUSTERS
DO ONE THING DIFFERENT
HOLIDAY STRESS-BUSTING RESOURCE GUIDE
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