While I don’t have the time or stamina to diagnose why the holidays have turned into such a stress-fest, I do have a few thoughts on how to make them a little less stressful—and as a result, a little more peaceful.None of these are easy, unfortunately.
But even if you can work on one or two of them, I think you’ll find your holiday stress a bit more manageable.If you ask people what the real meaning of the holidays are, you’d probably hear things like this:But if you watch how people behave during the holidays, you’ll get a very different picture of what the holidays are really about:There’s some kind of disconnect between our ideal vision for the holidays and what we end up doing when the time comes: We value quality time but we spend all.
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