Healthy Holiday Expectations: A How To Guide
Written by Ann Pietrangelo on December 14th, 2009 in Emotional Issues, Family, Linked Articles.
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Tis the season for celebration… and angst; for hustle and bustle… and unrealistic expectations.
Whatever you do, don’t let Norman Rockwell’s homey visions and Martha Stewart’s superior homemaking be the catalyst for your own anxiety. Your Christmas holiday may not rival that of a sentimental old black and white movie, but that wasn’t real life anyway.
One is hard-pressed to find the silver lining in the economic decline over the past several years, but there is more emphasis on home and hearth this Christmas and less emphasis on commercial goods as the fulfillment of holiday wishes. That’s a very good thing.
If you live life with a chronic illness, tackling the holiday “to do” list can be overwhelming. The first item on your “to do” list should be to cull the “to do” list. Ask yourself which items are truly necessary and which can be eliminated.
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