Are you stuffed full of holidays like I am? In the span of six days, we’ve celebrated Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and now Giving Tuesday. It’s been an expensive, exhausting six days for a lot of people!
As the calendar rolls around to the end of another year, this time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve is filled with to-do’s – those you need to do, plus those that others need or want you to do. Especially when it comes to family gatherings, we put a lot of heavy expectations on ourselves. And the music doesn’t help, with holiday songs proclaiming that it’s the most wonderful time of the year, describing idyllic snow scenes, fireplaces, and true love, and of course we can’t forget the poignant longing in songs talking about missing loved ones at the holidays.
I’m not here to remind you of the extra stress you carry this time of year. Nope, as with every issue, this newsletter contains helpful information that’ll make it easier for you to shed the stress and have more fun, even with all the excess hustle and bustle.
It’s easy to get caught up in the to-do’s that can pile up relentlessly:
- Holiday gatherings – hosting as well as attending
- Gift-giving and all that it entails: budgeting, shopping, wrapping, hiding, giving, and maybe returning
- Decorating and all that it entails: pulling décor from storage, sorting/untangling, shopping for what’s broken or missing, putting away some things so others can be displayed, and cleaning up the post-decorating mess
- End-of-year deadlines – medical, dental, work-related, tax-related
- Figuring out how to add all of the above to your normal workload of life
Looking at that, it’s a wonder we’ve survived as many Decembers as we have so far, right? This is the time of year when prioritizing our own mental wellbeing feels un-do-able, and yet it’s the very time you need to make yourself a priority. Here are three holiday-stress-related episodes of the world’s second-shortest podcast to help you do just that. If you have five minutes, you have time to hear them all:
Craving a way out of your cra-cra holiday schedule? Here’s a Tiny Bite for that!
Want two great reasons to enlist help? Here’s a Tiny Bite for that!
Need permission to enjoy what you have? Here’s a Tiny Bite for that!
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Are you ready for them? Neither am I, and yet, bring on the holidays! Just remember to say “no” when you need to, and set aside time and maybe a gift or two for yourself!
Wags,
Sandy Weaver
The Voice of Wagaliciousness
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