Holiday Peace And Joy: Your Guide To A Happy Holiday

By Carolyn Flynn

Survive and thrive this holiday season! Learn relaxation and rejuvenation skills to combat holiday stress and prevent holiday burnout. Enjoy the holiday on any budget by discovering fun and creative ways to manage your time and finances.

Learn how to enjoy holiday foods and parties while managing your weight, feeling good about yourself, and interacting with family, in-laws, and exes. Create peace and joy while releasing holiday grief and loneliness. Discover how to make your holiday season a pleasant and joyous experience for you and your loved ones.

Carolyn Flynn is a practicing Licensed Professional Counselor. She is helping individuals, couples, and families heal their relationships and improve their lives.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carolyn Flynn
• Release date: Nov 7, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465764935

Carolyn Flynn

Carolyn Flynn is a therapist, writer, and artist committed to healing hearts, strengthening relationships, uplifting souls, and inspiring people to create happy, healthy, and thriving relationships. She is helping individuals, couples, and families heal their relationships and transform their lives. With the changes in the economy Carolyn wanted to be able to reach and heal more lives in a cost effective way. She put some of her most commonly used skills and techniques in book form to provide therapeutic resources for those who may not be able to afford counseling or who wanted to have a tangible resource they could turn to often. Almost every client Carolyn has worked with has needed skills on how to express their emotions and get their needs met in a healthy, safe, non-blaming, non-attacking way. She wrote her first book, "SMART Talk: A Communication Workbook for Successful Marriage And Relationship Talk" to provide those skills to the general public. She included ways to heal your past, present, and future relationships. Carolyn's second book was originally going to be on emotional healing, but with the anniversary of the death of her grandfather, and several other deaths occurring at the time of writing, she narrowed the focus to healing grief and loss. "Heal Your Grief" was written to help individuals release pain and feel joy. Carolyn included twelve therapeutic healing techniques for coping with death, loss, and other painful emotions and past experiences. She also included special instructions on how to help children cope with grief and loss. Carolyn's third book "Holiday Peace And Joy: Your Guide To A Happy Holiday" began as a holiday stress-management support group. It was an eight-week course addressing the common stressors that occur during family gatherings, social events, and the holiday season. She put the course topics into book format to help individuals survive and thrive all year-round. Carolyn Flynn is a professional counselor currently providing relationship counseling and coaching to individuals and couples.

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Holiday

Peace and Joy

Your Guide To A Happy Holiday

Carolyn Flynn

Published by Carolyn Flynn at Smashwords

Copyright 2011 Carolyn Flynn

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All content in this book including the information, exercises, and techniques are not intended as a substitute for consulting with a mental health professional. The publisher and author are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of any information, suggestions, exercises, or techniques in this book.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1: Managing Family Stressors - Surviving Family, Extended Family, In-Laws, and Exes During The Holidays

Chapter 2: Holiday On A Budget - What To Do When You Don't Have Money For Gifts Or Activities

Chapter 3: Holiday Food and Weight Management

Chapter 4: Holiday Loneliness and Grief

Chapter 5: Holiday Glam - Beauty Inside and Out

Chapter 6: Balancing Too Many Holiday Activities and Enjoying the Party

Chapter 7: Preventing Holiday Burnout - Personal Self Care

Chapter 8: Holiday Stress Survival Skills

Conclusion

About The Author

Introduction

The holidays always have the potential to fill our lives with joy and laughter. We get to experience the holiday spirit by having good times with friends, family, and sharing happy memories. However, we all know from past experiences, these very same holidays can also come with some really stressful times. The odd thing about holidays is you look forward to them because there’s lots of good stuff happening, but all that potential fun squeezed tightly into a few short days can create all sorts of unpleasant experiences.

Sometimes you might feel the holidays are just a big circus and you have to perform all dressed up, hopeful, alone, and frightened. So there you are, swinging high up on the holiday trapeze grasping the bar with both hands trying to hang onto each and every one of your commitments - without slipping and falling flat on your face.

Allow me to be your personal guide through this potentially treacherous holiday landscape. I’ll help you avoid the trouble spots, show you the shortcuts, get you out of jams, plus point out some terrific scenery along the way. Study Holiday Peace and Joy: Your Guide To A Happy Holiday and make this season