The heightened feelings and let down with the absence of our loved one can hit hard during winter and holidays months.

What and how do we get through it?

If you have the Holiday pressures and expectations to create traditions, all the extra work..... HOW do we NOT get overwhelmed?

• expect to feel the pressure
• put Into reality what you can and cannot handle - yet not get lost in the doldrums and exclude then regret not showing up
• limit what you do.
• cut the list in half
• learn to say NO to the things you do not want to go to (like work events, or anything that might have pressure to perform or go distances you just don't have energy to do
• make a list of what you did last year and years before, what can be cut out?
  • instead of baking 10 kinds of cookies, do 5; and don't make enough f ...