5 Holiday Stress Busters

New Traditions

Find new traditions that work for you. Question how you have done things in the past that have brought distress and discontent. Don’t like going to your in-laws for a week? Then don’t. It is okay. This is your life and your family.

For example, I was working with a client who got so stressed out about preparing a big meal for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, which had been a tradition in her family for years. So she decided to order take out on Christmas Eve. Her husband picked up the food, they made a fire and everyone enjoyed a wonderful, stress-free meal in their living room by the tree. Preparing the Christmas feast the next day was much more enjoyable for her, too.