Holiday Coping Articles

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• Parents Gone Wild at Easter Egg Hunt
  The headline on our local paper reads, “A few rotten eggs spoil Easter Hunt.” Parents, who were supposed to ...
• Valentine’s Day & Parental LOVE
  Did you know that about 40 percent of the 180 million Valentine's cards purchased this year will be bought by parents? ...
• It’s January: Have You Started Your Christmas Shopping?
  Believe it or not, I’ve already started Christmas shopping for next year. With a big family and ...
• A Special New Year’s Resolution for Procrastinators
  Procrastinators rejoice! The coming of the New Year is a fantastic opportunity for you to energize yourself toward achieving ...
• Competing Family Loyalties in the Holiday Season
  The holidays are ripe for unearthing family dramas, often featuring a popular story line about competing loyalties. Though there are ...
• ‘Tis the Season to Regress
  What is it that makes perfectly reasonable adults start to act like teenagers as soon as they hit their parents’ front door? ...
• The Christmas “Not To-Do” List
  ‘Tis the season for list-making: Lists of gifts to buy. Lists of cards to send. Lists of people to see and things ...
• The Empty Chair at the Holiday Table
  Getting ready for the first Thanksgiving after David died was very, very hard. The loss of my husband’s brother ...
• It’s Halloween: Recognizing Our Shadow Side
  “From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night, good Lord, deliver us!” ~ An old ...
• New Year’s Resolutions To Build Your Resiliency
  “Life,” as M. Scott Peck said in his book, The Road Less Traveled, “is difficult.” I give him credit for saying ...
• Alzheimer’s and Coping with the Holidays
  The holiday season is often a time that many of us look forward for visiting and reconnecting with family and friends. Sometimes, however, this season can be sad ...
• 8 Ways to Take the Joy Out of the Holidays
  In case you haven’t noticed, the winter holidays are here. They sweep over us like a tsunami of lights, ...
• 10 Tips for Setting Successful Resolutions That Stick
  We know what you're thinking: Here's another article that’s going to give me the same old tips for making and keeping ...
• When Your Child Asks, Is Santa Real?
  December rituals are similar in millions of households around the U.S. There’s a big buildup to Christmas with trips to visit ...
• Holiday Feasts and Family Misbehavior
  My friend Jemm was close to tears when she called today. She’d invited the whole “fam damily” as she called it to come for ...
• Food, Family and the Holidays
  If you tend to struggle with food, weight and body image, holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas can be particularly challenging, because they revolve so much ...
• Depression and Alcoholism: Five Tips for Recovery
  Alcoholics go through a period of grieving when they give up drinking. For those dually-diagnosed with alcoholism and depression, the grief over ...
• New Year’s Resolution: World Peace 5 Seconds At A Time
  It's almost the new year, a time to stop and reflect and make promises to ourselves to improve on something. I've been mulling it over for days. Big items like hitting the gym more ...
• Priceless Presents That Don’t Cost a Thing
  Lunching with a group of friends, all of us 50 and up, the conversation turned to holiday giving. (Of course. It’s that time of year.) “I wish my kids would listen to me,” said Rita. ...
• Tidings of Conflict and Joy: Surviving the Holidays
  Help with the emotions late in the year typically focuses on the “holiday blues,” but there is very little press regarding the tension and conflicts that erupt during a season that's supposed to be about ...
• 10 Tips for Surviving Thanksgiving with the Dysfunctional Family
  For some families, holidays are just another excuse to get together to eat good food and to have a good time. They’re not looking for articles like this one because they’ve somehow figured out the ...
• Helpful Hints for Navigating the Holidays
  The holidays are upon us once again, so I thought this would be an ideal time to review some of the common problems people experience during the holidays as well as some tips for coping ...
• Holiday Coping Tips
  I thought I'd write a few words about the holidays and the blues, because this is the time of the year people commonly experience feelings of depression, sadness, and loss when many others are enjoying ...
• The Gift of Giving
  My daughter was shocked. “Mom,” she reported in one of those breathless cell phone calls she makes as she rushes across campus. “There’s a girl in my dorm whose family has a rule that gifts ...
• In Defense of Thank-You Notes
  “But Mom, nobody writes thank you notes anymore. But Mom, Gramma was here when I opened it and I said thank you then. But Mom, I can e-mail her. But Mom, it’s bor-ing! But Mom, ...