Christmas Special: Holiday Stress Relief

Happy Worry-Free Holidays! Time to enjoy yourself with some holiday stress relievers!

Our Topic Today: Reducing Holiday Stress

In this episode, you will find out:

• The leading stressors during holiday seasons
• How stressful you are in festive seasons
• Healthy ways to reduce holiday stress and what to avoid to stop the overwhelm!
• Helpful advice and strategies to prevent holiday stress suggested by the American Psychological Association (APA)

Reasons behind Holiday Stress

• financial concerns
• work-family balance
• high expectations for a perfect holiday
• pressure from consumerism

Are Women more Stressful than Men in holidays?

• There are gender role differences behaviorally during Christmas, Thanksgiving Day, and New Year Additional responsibilities and holiday-specific household work add extra burden on women, especially those with children

How to deal with extra stress in holidays?

• It’s not bad to engage in sedentary activities like sleeping, watching TV, relaxing or listening to music in order to detach yourself from the hectic work life on regular days
• Avoid stress eating and drinking alcohol (it just makes you more guilty afterwards!)
• Suggestions from psychologists 
  • Take time for yourself
  • Volunteer
  • Have realistic expectation
  • Remember what’s important
  • Seek support

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Listen to this episode to find out more holiday stress relievers! 

Words of Wisdom by Katherine Nordal

The holidays are about more than presents. This is a time to celebrate family and friends and to take time to relax and enjoy each other.

Take-away messages

• Don’t get distracted by all the hype going around. Immerse yourself in the celebration and family time!
• You do not need to follow the buying/consuming routines set by society! Know what you need, know what’s important to you and your family, and enjoy your time with them!

Resources Mentioned

Holiday Stress Survey – This survey describes various situations when people might feel stressed during the holidays and measure your confidence level of managing holiday stress.

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