Surviving the Holidays with Your Sanity Intact

Over on Transformational Girlfriends, Susan wrote a post about surviving the holiday season with great suggestions on how to decrease the stress.
I find that for so many folks I work with, the pressure of the holidays (ho ho, oh no) is often about trying to create a fantasy holiday that no lesser human than Martha [...]

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It’s all too much

Martha Beck recently wrote an article in “O” magazine on the anthropological reasons for overwhelm.  She says that ‘”Overwhelm” is increasingly common as demands on human attention increase exponentially. The human brain just wasn’t designed to handle the environment we inhabit. “
I felt like she was talking directly to me.
She goes on to say that throughout the ages, [...]

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