Christmas stress: how to manage it well during the holiday season, an expert gives her advice – X Gossip

The end of year celebrations are approaching. The race for gifts has begun and family tensions are rising. How to manage this period not always easy. Psychologist Claire Mizzi shares her 5 tips for staying zen

Every year, it’s the same stress which rises around mid-December. “Do I go finish the gifts on time?“, “What am I going to prepare to eat so that everyone is happy?”, “Is the mother-in-law going to act up again?” Between shopping for gifts, family tensions and general tiredness, it is not easy to manage everything… Claire Mizzi, psychologist, psychotherapist, mindfulness meditation instructor and co-author of the book Your best friend is you (I read) delivers us his precious advice to approach the season serenely. This year, emerge unscathed from the end-of-year festivities.

5 tips to avoid Christmas stress

• Find ways to unwind

To survive all the social obligations of the end of the year, iIt is essential to obtain a decompression airlock every day to recharge their batteries. Choose digestive walks in nature, alone or with others, board games if you like that, solitary beaches for meditation… These moments of resource will allow you to better support the constraints related to festivals.

• Prioritize the human experience

Seeing distant cousins, lost relatives, or quite simply loved ones who no longer live so close can also be very rebalancing, as the feelings of love exchanged are so strong. Provided of course that favor discussions in small groups, one-on-ones, walks. In short, keep 100% human moments rather than obligations to do well, such as meals or gifts.

The end of the year also brings its share of small colds or liver attacks… Blame it on the fatigue accumulated over several months and to the excesses of all kinds of feasts. So don’t hesitate, if you’re with your family, to book some solo time for yourself. to take care of you: cinema session, massage, beauty ritual in a bath… And, if you can, extend your holidays to give you an extra quiet day before returning to work.

• Get out of emotional games

Synonym of power warwho will give the best gift?), IFamily get-togethers can quickly become emotional playgrounds. Between the adults who become children again, the relationships of domination or submission, without forgetting the mental load linked to the desire to do everything well, you have to be damn well anchored. Try meditation take a step back to let go and not be too vulnerable.

Now is the perfect time to learn how to respect his needs for rest, calm… We can set limits and at the same time cultivate compromise by boosting our tolerance threshold. For example, by agreeing (without comment) to have veggie guests who will shun the turkey or young people who will not go to midnight mass.

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De-stressing treatment: multipurpose oil, Silk Elixir, 50 ml, €19.90, Eclaé.

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