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Staying mentally healthy during Thanksgiving is just as important as staying physically healthy, and with holidays that tend to be celebrated with family, this can be especially true! I decided to compile some posts that might help you as you strive to be healthy both physically and mentally/emotionally over the next week! Below are several tips for staying healthy during Thanksgiving:
Surviving The Holidays With Family: Basic tips to stay healthy when you’re interacting with family
6 Ways To Deal With Stress and Anxiety: A succinct post with various steps to help manage your stress in day-to-day situations.
Grace and Gratitude: This is something I repeat often to myself, especially in situations like a family holiday celebration. Try it out and see how it goes!
Grounding Techniques: Particularly helpful if a fight is going on and anxiety is increasing. This helps keep us grounded in the present and reduces our stress.
Owning Our Reactions: This is of particular importance when stress runs high and we get frustrated with those around us. This goes back to the series on boundaries.
REBT Self Help Form and The Thought Record: Both of these posts go through different forms and step by step processes to keep our thoughts and feelings in check when we start to feel anxious, depressed, frustrated, and stressed.
Catastrophizing and Black and White Thinking: Two posts I did on two different cognitive distortions. These can easily come out in full force during holidays and family get togethers.
Reducing Stress During the Holiday Season: Practical steps to decrease stress.
5 Healthy Habits That Can Change Your Life: This post goes through various healthy habits that, when implemented, have the power to make huge changes in your life. Trying to implement one or two during holidays can be helpful!
I hope that one of these links will be helpful for each of you and your particular circumstances throughout the next few weeks!
**For fun, check out this delicious Glazed Pumpkin Donut Muffin recipe!
Now it’s your turn to share! What’s one of your favorite ways to stay mentally healthy during family celebrations or big holidays?
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aHistorically in my family, stress leads to one or two big blow up arguments. Looking back it’s tough to remember who/what/why the arguments were about. Usually it’s between me and my mom or my sister and my mom, as we are all very opinionated and stubborn. I try to ask myself “will this matter in one year, one month, one week or one day?” Usually the answer is no and I try to let it go. These are all really interesting articles and suggestions, thanks for sharing!
I love that question you ask yourself, because so very often it doesn’t matter (and if it does, then we know it’s something important to discuss). Sometimes I say “sometimes it’s more important to not be right, and be in a right relationship.”