Your Ultimate Holiday Survival Guide

The holidays are fast approaching. Are you thriving, or surviving? Which describes you most?

• Your bubbling with joy, excitement and Christmas spirit and ready to expand yourself into a new year?
• Your sinking with feelings of dread, overwhelm, stress, anxiety or sadness and just wish you could hibernate through it all?
• You’re somewhere in the middle—not quite depressed or anxious or dreadful, but not super excited either.

Whichever statement you most resonate with, I’ve got you covered!

This blog post will help you build and maintain positivity and momentum so that you can deal with holiday stress confidently.

You’ll be empowered and ready to:

• handle and even reduce stress this year
• maintain your physical health through the busy season
• balance your emotional well-being
• successfully survive the actual holidays and deal with difficult people

You can also download my FREE Holiday Survival Guide [PDF] which breaks down the most common and least pleasant holiday stressors. It gives you tips and strategies to keep your physical health in check, maintain emotional balance and mental stability, and deal with actual holidays and PEOPLE. The guide also includes printable journal pages so you can reflect and implement in ways that will work for you.

Just click the button below to grab the FREE guide PLUS my new Holiday Recipe Guide

Your Holiday Survival Plan

Get Mentally Prepared for the Holidays

Believe that the holidays can be different this year. You CAN go into this season strong, grounded, and feeling good about yourself and the festivities coming up.

Don’t let yourself sink into negative or dreadful thinking or believing that things will just be the same as usual.

Set yourself up for a better time this year.

Further Reading: 4 Steps to Develop a Positive Holiday Mindset

Keep Your Physical Health In Check Over the Holidays

Oh, the parties, celebrations, cookie exchanges, massive meals, decadent desserts, luscious eggnog drinks….

You don’t want to start a restrictive diet, depriving regimen, or forced workout schedule. Not now, not ever.

The key is to BALANCE and MODERATE INDULGENCE.

This is totally possible. You just need a game plan.

I’ve got 2 resources for you:

1. This blog post with 13 tips for navigating parties, gatherings and meals and 10 tips for maintaining your fitness and fitting in exercise when things get hectic

2. My FREE Holiday Recipe Guide

Remain Emotionally and Mentally Stable When Holidays Get Hectic

Easier read than done, right? The holidays can bring on a lot of demands and overwhelming emotions.

The holiday season can be so energizing and up-lifting that it’s hard to wind down at the end of bustling days. Even good stress can put you out of sorts—munching irregularly, drinking excessively, welling with anxiety, feeling like you’re in a whirlwind.

The holiday season can also be draining. Sadness, depression or anxiety can kick in extra hard.

But it doesn’t have to be hard to grasp the holiday spirit.

In this blog post, I’ve listed 5+ questions for journal or thought prompts to help you calm your emotions and stabilize your energy levels. #5 is really powerful….but don’t skip 1-4.

Maintain Your Positive Energy at Holiday Gatherings and with Difficult People

The holidays mean different things for everyone. Families and old friends get together with the hopes of reconnecting, but the reunions aren’t always festive affairs.

Remember this: You don’t have to take on the emotions of others. You can’t control other people, but you can lessen the impact of any negative energy.

This starts with the one thing you CAN control: how you show up.

Considering how you want to express yourself, examining your expectations, and believing that people can be different (like you can be, too) will have a huge impact on your experiences.

Then, of course you still might face those annoying questions and critiques….you know….regarding your love life, career, diet, personal choices….

Don’t let those get to you!

In this blog post, I’ve got 13 tips to help you prepare yourself to deal with all those frustrating comments.

For you introverts:

If you’re an introvert, like me, spending a lot of time at parties and such can be overwhelming, even if everyone is super nice. The last 6 tips will be your saving grace, but you’ll want to read them all just to feel extra prepared.

Make Gift Giving Simple

I’m not a great gift-giver. It’s not my love language, but I know it’s important to some people. My ultimate holiday survival guide only offers a few tips around gifts.

I think this gal has some great ideas for simple gifts, so I’m just going to lead you to her blog post: “5 Simple Gift Ideas for the Person Who Has Everything”. Check it out if you struggle with gift-giving, like me.

Finally….

Remember That the Holidays Will Pass.

Life will be waiting for you after the holidays. Count on things to settle down.

If you’ve taken some time to contemplate and incorporate some of my holiday survival tips, hopefully your holidays won’t be so stressful or exhausting.

I hope you find strength and joy in the holiday season and become inspired for the new year.

If not, I’m here for you, and you can contact me any time.

Hey, don’t forget that you can download my FREE Holiday Survival Guide and Recipe Guide. Just click one of the images below!