Articles on Holiday Coping - Page 3
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 small budget, it’s the best way I’ve found to make Christmas...
Mother’s Day is Family Day
It’s May and Mother’s Day is around the corner. However we may feel about the holiday, the greeting card and floral industries make it impossible to ignore. Mothers are...
Children of the Aging Self-Absorbed: A Guide to Coping with Difficult, Narcissistic Parents & Grandparents
Tempted to throw Momma from a train? Looking forward to the annual blaring of “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer?” If you have a difficult relative who is...
Wrung-Out by Ringing-In the Holidays: Dealing with Post-Holiday Blues
“The Holidays,” generally defined as the period from Thanksgiving through New Years, can be an emotional roller coaster. We’re expected to be (and would like to be) filled with...
New Year’s Resolutions: Role-Modeling the ‘How’ of Making Change
There’s something in the human condition that likes new beginnings. Diets always start after the holidays. Birthdays are a great time to quit smoking. Every week gives us a...
Happy New Year, for Auld Lang Syne.
New Year’s Eve, in much of the English speaking world, is a time of celebration. People ring in the New Year with parties, fancy dress, streamers, noise makers, and...
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 makes sense if you think about it....
The Season of the Have-To’s
Small talk turned to intense talk when I spoke with the members of a local women’s group. When I asked about holiday planning, what came back was a flood...
New Year’s Resolutions: Good Intentions or Real Commitment?
Now is the accepted time to make your annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~ Mark Twain The quotation is attributed...
Not in the Holiday Mood? It Might Be the Blues
It’s that time of year again. Multicolored lights twinkle across houses and front yards. Parents and squirming children form long lines to sit on a Santa look-alike’s lap. Red...
Toys for the Holidays: Buying Gifts for Other People’s Children
Holiday time. For many of us, shopping in the toy aisle is our chance to reenter the world of childhood. The old joke about the father who buys a...
Post-Winter Holidays: Hibernation or Depression?
The holiday season is just about over. The presents are unwrapped. The relatives have left. The leftovers are almost gone. Some things went well. Some didn’t. There were moments...
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 not being able to drink is intensified....
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 stay behind the ropes at an egg hunt event for...
In Recovery and Surviving the Holidays
Here come the holidays. In American cultural myth, it’s a time for good food, good company, and good times. If you are struggling with recovery from alcoholism, it’s also...
