How to Have a Stress-Free Holiday Season This Year (Even with All the Shopping, Cooking, Decorating, Cards, Parties *and* while Dealing with Your Relatives)
Yes, Really!
- Are you ready for the holidays?
- Are you ready to experience a better holiday this year?
- Would you like to have some helpful ideas when making decisions and plans for your holidays?
- Would having a stress and solutions expert to talk to and get ideas from be helpful?
With the stock market wobbling and consumer confidence at its lowest level in more than a decade, this Holiday Season is shaping up to be one of the most stressful in recent memory. Stress, as we all know, can come from a variety of sources affecting us in a variety of ways. And at this time of year, turkey with the in-laws, hanging Christmas lights, and opening your post-holiday Visa bill are just some of the many sources of our escalating stress levels.
Survey findings show that added holiday stress, on top of already high stress levels associated with work and the economy, makes it hard to relax. Cited as “multiple stressors” are lack of time (up to 69%), lack of money (up to 69%), and pressure to give or get gifts (up to 51%).
In addition, men and women who experience elevated levels of stress, rate their psychological and physical health lower than those who are not experiencing stress – and are more likely to experience a range of health ailments and symptoms such as sadness (59%), sleep problems (56%), and lack of energy (55%).
If these next few weeks of the year are making you anxious and bringing up frustrations and stress already, I want to help you decide (and re-decide) how to make it all flow so that you can really enjoy yourself and the holidays! You deserve it!
With a background in therapy and counseling, and now as an educator and lifestyle coach, I’ve been helping people de-stress and rethink their plans and goals for over 30 years. No matter where I’ve traveled around the world the core human wants and needs are the same – we want to be heard, we want to be appreciated and we want to be happy. And for women, there’s even a bigger additional want – we want to help make others happy too!
~ Barbara, Bank Employee
Dallas, TX
However, the paradox of the holidays is that they become especially stressful for women as we want to make everyone happy AND everything perfect– buying the right gifts, planning the right meals, cooking, cleaning, decorating and, and, and . . . – while trying to take care of ourselves, our families, working and taking care of daily chores and activities too. And, this doesn’t even allow for the occasional emergency or “out of the blue” crisis!
“Thank you for the permission you give that takes away the weight of confusion and indecision
in an instant. I keep needing to hear from you that “the way it’s always been” can change.”
~ Pam, Teacher Kansas City, KS
I have been helping women keep their balance in life—no matter what’s happening—for a long time. The holidays are a few ramped up weeks out of the year where if we follow a few set, proven and practical guidelines on a daily basis, this holiday season can be much better than the past.
Meet with Kim by telephone and email for 8 weeks in this powerful program of small changes… Holiday Stress Be Gone! – EBook and Workshop Series. This course will carry you from pre-Thanksgiving to mid-January, through the holidays:
- to help you stay grounded,
- stick to your intentions for what you want and what is really possible this year,
- and to give you that safe, touchstone place where you know you can ask questions and get the answers you need to de-stress and move forward with calm assurance that “all is well” this Holiday Season.
EBook and Workshop Series
- Three (3) – 1 hour Tele-Workshops, Kim will discuss the top issues and solutions to holiday stress management. All you need to participate is a phone.
- Handouts: You will receive comprehensive handouts (PDF files) for each of the three monthly tele-workshops to help you process what we are covering to assist you in making better redecisions for your personal situation. If you’re on the road and don’t have the handouts immediately for the live call, no problem, you can use them anytime.
- Recorded Sessions: You’ll receive the REPLAY/MP3 in case you can’t make the live call and/or want to listen to it again.
- Weekly Email Holiday Stress Solutions: Once a week Kim will send you an email with further ideas, tips and responses to emailed questions asked by participants (this will give you weekly support for 8 weeks throughout the holiday season to help you stay calmer, more grounded and connected to the joy of the holidays).
- Ebook: Kim’s 45-page ebook, “Holiday Stress Be Gone!” filled with ideas, lists, exercises and inspriation.
Holiday Stress Be Gone! – EBook and Workshop Series meets once a month by telephone in November, December and January.
Remember, if you can’t make the live call, you will receive the recorded replay and can listen as soon as and as often as you like.
Session ONE:
Saturday, November 19, 2011
10:00 am MST/Noon EST
Session TWO:
Thursday, December 1, 2011
7:00 pm MST/9:00 pm EST
Session THREE:
Saturday, January 14, 2012
10:00 am MST/Noon EST
The three telesessions will cover the following focused themes:
- how to pre-plan your holiday events
- how to stay organized
- how to make travel work for you and your immediate family
- how to say “No!” to over-spending and gift giving
- how to balance cooking, baking and candlestick making!
- how to take care of yourself and your needs
- how to balance time and energy with family to keep your cool and your sanity
- how to not “please everyone!” and still make it all work out
- how to anticipate problems and solutions
- how to step back and see the “bigger picture”
- how to change the chemistry in your brain and body from negative to positive in one step
- how to give yourself “permission” to let go of what you usually have been in control of
- how to get and keep organized pre-and post-holiday season
- and so much more
When stress is at its peak, it’s hard to stop and regroup. Taking steps to prevent stress and the energy surges, anger, depletion and depression it can cause, especially if you have past holiday-triggers, is a must in order to step back into your joy and peace in the moment and for the season ahead.
It’s so much easier to make decisions and choices when we can “think out loud” with a trusted friend or personal coach; someone who supports you in the moment to reshape your thoughts and feelings in order to move ahead in a better way.
Over the next three months, I’m here for you to listen, inspire, discuss and guide you through the ups and downs of:
- holiday decision making
- family relationships and dynamics that cause stress and frustration
- questions you have about decisions and choices that are confusing to make alone
- trusting yourself and your decisions, when others don’t agree with your or are even angry with you
- deciding when “enough is enough” in relation to spending money, gift-buying, food preparation, party planning, etc.
- giving yourself permission to be, do and have what you want
- needing a touchstone where you can just be yourself and relax
- being able to know that you can tell your truth and be heard for the changes you want
- taking care of yourself “first” (in order to be and have more energy for others)
until I finished them all. I’ve “re‐decided” the few things that have been making my holidays miserable for years.
How great to let them go and actually look forward to Christmas this year!
I’m telling all my friends to get your books and use them over and over again!”
~ Claire, Nurse
San Francisco, CA”
I’ve also created Holiday Stress Be Gone! – EBook and Workshop Series as a way to help you stay accountable to yourself for the plans and changes you want the most. It is well documented that weight loss, exercise and other goals are reached much easier with a personal trainer, accountability coach or accountability buddy. I, and the other participants in the session, will be that for you! You’re not alone in feeling frustrated around the holidays, everyone gets good from our sessions, helping all of us grow and enjoy this season more.
We will meet Pre-Thanksgiving, Pre-Christmas and Post-Holidays as we head into the New Year.
Why a Post-Holiday session?
Many people experience depression, regrets, remorse, guilt, anger and resentments after the holidays from what did and/or didn’t happen. Many have lost family members or loved ones, even pets. Depression and doctor’s office visits for depression increase 35-45% by the end of January. This EBook and Workshop Series will help you limit and change any of these negative thoughts and emotions. We can’t control everything of course and “stuff” will happen to rock your boat, that’s guaranteed! Our Post-Holiday session will help bring you back into the everyday life, ironing out and releasing what didn’t work and discussing how to deal with it in the best of ways.
We’ll be discussing:
- What stresses you out most?
- What are you already hearing yourself complain or gripe about?
- What triggers you to feel angry or negative?
- Who pushes your buttons and what you can do about it?
- What problems are already making you feel anxious or frustrated?
- Where do you feel out of control?
- How to make Thanksgiving a day of good memories – no matter what.
- What stresses you out the most?
- What are you anxious about?
- What would you like to change and are afraid to ask?
- Who puts the monkey wrench into your holiday planning?
- Do you stress about finances, feeling badly about a small budget?
- Are you dealing with loss or grief?
- What is your big wish for this Christmas, and what will limit it?
- What will make you happy?
- What do you want from others?
- Do you suffer from Holiday Blues?
- Decide who and how you want to be this year, and be okay with it/you.
- If the holidays weren’t as happy as you wanted, how are you dealing with it?
- Many people suffer from Post-Holiday Blues, are you?
- What losses did you experience and feel and what diminished your joy?
- How can you re-decide for next holiday season now?
- How are you un-decorating to get back into the New Year?
This program is packed with immediate keys to help you redecide, let go and move on to where you really want to be this holiday season. You’ll get my well-known common sense and practical solutions to holiday stressors, laced with lots of humor and TLC too!
This is a great book where you’ll find out:
1) the ONE WORD to jumpstart and to re-start your sanity
2) the TWO WORDS that will keep you focused and free
3) the THREE WORDS that will empower you and create healthy holiday boundaries
4) the QUESTIONS to ask yourself to make sure you’re planning ahead for a great holiday
5) the Top 12 Reasons People Experience Stress During The Holidays
6) how to make your STRESSORS WORK FOR YOU, not against you
7) the FIVE WORDS that can CHANGE THE DIRECTION of your thoughts from stress, chaos and overwhelm to calm, choice and freedom
8) the answer to how much you DESERVE by using the DESERVING CHECKLIST OF 50 TRUTHS
9) the answer to WHAT DO YOU WANT? by using writing exercises and defining questions
10) THE 12 SHOPPING RULES FOR SANITY!
11) THE 6 TIPS FOR EATING YOUR WAY THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS SAFELY
12) the TIPS and GUIDES to
- The 2 most important checklists you can have to save your sanity
- Greeting Cards: The Rules to Make and Break
- Gift Buying and Shopping Madness
- Cooking, Cleaning, Baking and Candlestick Making
- Travel: From Bed to Table or Around the World
- Eating, Drinking, Indulging and Enjoying FOOD
- Religious Holiday Rituals and Ceremonies
13) The KEYS to surviving the Holiday Season
14) Get a Jump on Next Holiday Season and Stop Stress in its Tracks!!
Now we’re all on the same page.
No more crazy holidays, and that includes every weekend and all other holidays, big and small!
Wow, what a difference your ideas have made for us in such a short while! THANK YOU, KIM!”
~ Sally, Technician
Santa Fe, NM
EBook and Workshop Series
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