The Key to Surviving Thanksgiving
There’s a time and a place… But the Thanksgiving table may not be one of them. In this blog post, I'm sharing tips for doing more than just surviving the day with family.
Thanksgiving can be an exciting holiday for many people. For others, it has stress and anxiety stuffed and mashed around it. Family dynamics can be complicated!
I’m hoping some of the following tips can help you go from dreading the day to actually enjoying it. Especially once that tryptophan kicks in and you can sleep well knowing you managed yourself the best you could.
Following are some ideas that perhaps you haven’t thought about and I encourage you to give them some consideration before stuffing your face with goodness. At the end of each tip, you’ll find a suggestion for an experiment for yourself. It'll make life more interesting, after all!
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Feeling Stuck On Your Mental To-Do List? 3 Brain Hacks To Get You Going
A client was describing her frustration that she couldn’t seem to get things on her to-do list done. The desire was there, but there was a disconnect between that and the action needed to complete the tasks. I call these "back burner" stressors. They simmer in the background, increasing the temperature of your stress in a quiet, slow-burn. This back burner stress could be creeping into your sleep, edging its way into your relationships, decreasing your tolerance, and increasing frustration without you even being cognizant of it.
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New Year, New You: 3 Strategies to Help You Stick to It
Whether we like to admit it or not, a new calendar year feels like a fresh start, a new opportunity, a clean slate. We may deny its significance because it is kind of cliche, after all. New gym memberships skyrocket, new diets are researched, new apps for budget planning are downloaded with high hopes of change and permanent improvements. But most of us start and stop, experience frustration and shame and spiral down to a whole new “screw it” attitude that has us feeling stuck and powerless. How do we change that? How do we stick to these well anticipated changes and not slip and slide back to the unhealthy habits but rather continue to grow toward the person we want to be? Here are three helpful hints I’ve come up with if you’re feeling the new year, new you thing.
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