Avoiding Holiday Stress and Emotional Eating: Get a Self-care Package
By: Melissa McCreery, PhD
My important tip for avoiding holiday stress (and emotional over eating): Take care of yourself. I know, it’s easier said than done. And yet—when you do it—everything else really is easier. Learning to allow ourselves to prioritize our own self care is an extremely hard lesson for many of us to learn—but it’s really an essential first step. I know that many tip sheets for coping with holiday stress trumpet the value of self care, and I also know that when you are really busy, working to take good care of yourself can seem like just one thing more to add to a busy to-do list.
Because your self-care is one of the most important tools you can have to take control of emotional eating, I’ve worked hard to create a way to make it a lot more do-able. Here’s my end-of-year gift to you: a Self-care Package(TM). The Self-care Package(TM) I’ve created consists of five quick-and-to-the-point audio lessons. There’s absolutely no cost. Just go here or here and look in the upper right-hand corner of the page (you may have to scroll up a bit). When you enroll, you’ll be emailed a link to a very short (about 3 minutes) audio with concrete steps (and assignments) aimed at helping you improve your self-care and get on track for 2008. You’ll get a new audio lesson once a week for five weeks.
I designed the weekly package deliveries to be straight forward and absolutely possible to accomplish. I hope you find them helpful. Check it out and feel free to share it with friends. Leave a comment below to let me know what you think.
Take good care and Happy Holidays,
Melissa
Hint: You can find the previous tips for avoiding stress and emotional overeating at Peace With Cake: Ending Emotional Eating
