#holidaystress
How to deal with holiday stress: The psychology behind why family time can turn adults into moody teens again: #holidaystress #family #copingmechanism #conflict #Psychology #Triple5LightTherapy #Couplestherapy #BlackMaleTherapist
No matter how far away from home we travel, most of us can’t escape our familial history — and the memories that come with it.
Along with shopping, gift-wrapping, and cookie… https://triplefivelighttherapy.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-deal-with-holiday-stress_21.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BlackMaleTherapist #conflict #copingmechanism #Couplestherapy
How to deal with holiday stress: The psychology behind why family time can turn adults into moody teens again: #holidaystress #family #copingmechanism #conflict #Psychology #Triple5LightTherapy #Couplestherapy #BlackMaleTherapist
No matter how far away from home we travel, most of us can’t escape our familial history — and the memories that come with it.
Along with shopping, gift-wrapping, and cookie… https://triplefivelighttherapy.blogspot.com/2019/11/how-to-deal-with-holiday-stress_21.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BlackMaleTherapist #conflict #copingmechanism #Couplestherapy
Stressful drive for Thanksgiving tonight. Saw two car accidents right in front of me. One involved an asshole in a gigantic pickup truck weaving in and out of traffic loose control fly over a guardrail and become stuck in trees just over a bridge and right before entering the water. The other was a 15 mph rear end accident in traffic caused but another large pickup truck in the trees of the center of the highway. When not in traffic it started raining. 2 hour drive turned to 3. What irks me about these accidents is that 1. It was before people on the roads are drunk(er than normal) and 2. People travel in groups and families more often than you normally see. That means dude* that flew into the trees at 80 mph could have hurt his family all to save a few minutes on a long drive. Hate to think about it. Had to have a beer when I arrived. No more driving tonight for me.
*If it was a woman driver, she was driving with high levels of toxic masculinity, so there is a reason for my assumption of gender.
#Thanksgiving
#HolidayStress
#driving
#DrivingTooFast
#CarSafety
I hate it when you say "Make yourself at home" ...and they do..
literally.
Is there a holiday where we all just cry from stress?
Because I need that one now.
I have more time off for the holidays than I've ever had before.
This has me acting like a time miser: I don't want to spend it, but I want to be productive. I should Market! Create! Schedule Social Media! Draft Content!
But I need to Bake! Wrap Presents! Organize! Declutter!
In the end, I'm probably going to hunker under a blanket and watch While You Were Sleeping. Because self-care *is* productive.
Hyping myself up for the last week of work before christmas. I saw a tiktok saying “those last two weeks before christmas when you have nothing to do at work”
Welp. I guess working in IT is not their job.
#christmas #holidaystress
Sympathy for Santa’s snitch: “It's not like your heart is in it anymore. Sure, the first few days you might make me a mini marshmallow bubble bath or spell out messages in cereal. But we both know by the second week in December you'll just toss me on the dirty laundry pile and tell the kids I'm mountain climbing. It's fudged up.”
Gearing up for a somewhat stressful rest-of-the-week. Hope to get some writing done in the evenings before I head out of town next week to begin the holiday festivities. I’ve got three short stories in flight that I’ve been neglecting since the end of summer #writing #holidaystress #travel #writingcommunity
Looking for advice for family holiday visit to my fundamentalist parents. How do you set good boundaries with your *very* not like-minded parents to protect your trans kids from their probing questions about appearance/presentation and dating life? #LGBTQfamilies #transmastadon #boundaries #HolidayStress
Looking for advice for family holiday visit to my fundamentalist parents.
How do you set good boundaries with your *very* not like-minded parents
to protect your trans kids from their probing questions about appearance/presentation and dating life?
#LGBTQfamilies #transmastadon #boundaries #HolidayStress
Feeling stressed and weak
Santa's helper, baker, driver
Holiday advice speaks
#holidaystress #advice #stayingpresent #haiku #poetry
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/well/mind/holiday-stress-relief.html
OK the good thing about a new social media platform where I have not a single family member is that I can say...
MY SIBLINGS' IN-LAWS ARE SO FRUSTRATING.
They have demanded, yes, that is the word they use, to have Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas Day with the grandkids so my parents have to work around it.
EVERY YEAR.
My commitment to letting people embrace their holiday joy while simultaneously being annoyed by Aunt Cathy sharing a time hop of the same holiday meme for the 7th year in a row is a low key existential crisis.
#HolidayMagic #HolidayJoy #HolidayCheer #HolidayStress #HappyHolidays
Thinking tonight of everyone for whom the holidays might be difficult instead of joyous.
My early memories of the holidays were happy ones, that became strained and conflicted after my grandparents were no longer there to make them joyful.
I'm in a place of peace again, but even so, the pull of sadness can be strong at this time of year, for whatever reason.
Be kind to yourself and those around you. It can be tough.
For those who will be spending time with family or social situations & need an adult beverage without the judgment: there is still time to order these for Thursday delivery via amazon. You’re welcome & god speed.
#holidaystress #daydrinking #judgy