Hi, I’m Daris Lancaster Stojakovich, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Life Couch. And I’m today about holiday stress and how to handle it. And right now, we’re going to talk about maintaining relationships and family interactions.
So, why during the holiday season is it the time of stress with regard to family and relationships? Well, it can be a source of stress any time of the year. And sometime the family dynamic and relationships the dynamic of their relationships can be amplified with the expectations and just simply the stress of the holidays themselves.
One common stress during the holidays with regard to family and friends is as if you have people staying with you. If you’re staying together in close corner for an extend period time, people can with their different emotions and different needs and different expectations really begin to stress each other out. One thing you want to make sure that you do, our really great tip is when you have friends and family coming to stay, never give up your bedroom. You always want to have that heaven as your place to go when you just can’t get away from it all. A time out is a good thing to have.
Now, speaking of time outs during relationship and family interaction times of the holidays, you want to make sure that you’d understand and sometimes people need time outs. Now, to have an adult have a time out, doesn’t mean to have and set down in the corner and stay for a while. And it’s certainly doesn’t means scolding and berating them. But what I mean is don’t engage negativity if you have a family member or friend who is being extremely negative, don’t engage it. You can simply be quite, go about what you’re doing, don’t engage the conversation, don’t argue with the negativity. Sometime when you’re engaging a negative person, it’s just basically adds feel to the fire. So you can give that adult something that you can call a time out. Of course don’t tell him that you doing it, just be calm, take a deep breath and know that this too shall pass. It’s only for a short while. Families that have a lot difficulties in close quarters or interaction during the holidays might want to consider adding a non-family member guest to the mix. People can really become more aware of their behavior and can often be on their best behavior—might actually stop the drama queen or the instigator in the family from playing up their usual role.
During the holiday is not the nothing that can really, really stress of relationship, just up around yourself with friends. Their been many wonderful holiday celebrate by single people who create their own family with friends that had like minded interest, enjoy the same kind of celebration for the holidays. That’s surrounding yourself with friends. Good positive energy can be something that really eliminate the stress of the holidays.
So I hope that some of these tips for maintaining relationships and relieving and eliminating the stress of family interaction during the holidays has been helpful for you. Next, we’re going to be talking about over indulging in food and alcohol during the holiday season.
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