Episode 145: Stress and Anxiety Around the Holidays

Psychology Has It Backwards - A podcast by Christine Heath and Judy Sedgeman - Saturdays

It's that time of year again when we're all expected to be joyful and enthusiastic, and a lot of people just feel stressed, pressured, and anxious about doing all the things they think they have to do for the holidays. We forget that we're making it up. It's our own thinking about holidays, our own exaggerated ideas of what we need to get done, our own pressure to make everything perfect for friends and family, that creates a lot of worried, stressful thinking. We don't lose our natural resil...