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Holiday
Holiday Care for Yourself: Body, Mind, and Spirit
Whether it's Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa we are celebrating, we all bring to the holiday meal table our high expectations and, inevitably, our history of disappointments. In this period of pressured work and vacation schedules, hectic travel logistics, and economic and political stressors, we need to be especially vigilant about taking care of our own mental health—not just for ourselves, but in order to be emotionally present for celebrations with friends and loved ones.
Should I Make New Years Resolutions?
by Connie Saindon, MA, MFCC, CTS
How To Make Those New Year Resolutions Stick
by Pauline Wallin, Ph.D.
Holiday Depression and Grief: Nine Ways to Give Your Self a Partial Holiday
by Susan Apollon, MA, Licensed Psychologist
Season of Lights...and Loss: The Truth about Those Inexplicable Holiday Blues (and Eleven Ways to Deal with Them)
by Susan Apollon, MA, Licensed Psychologist
New Years Resolution - 10 Keys for Success
by Dale Berry, CP, Results Coach
Winter Blues (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and the Hope Spring Brings
by John A. Ingram, Ph.D.
The ABCs of Healing
by Susan Apollon, MA, Licensed Psychologist
Want Christmas Traditions to Be Spiritual? Tips on Keeping Focus
by Richard B. Patterson, Ph.D.
Making New Years Resolutions? Add Gratitude this Year
by Richard B. Patterson, Ph.D.
Daylight Savings Time Sure Bet for Increase in Accidents, Fatigue
by Stanley Coren, Ph.D.
Practical Gifts for People with Dementias
by Stephanie Zeman, RN, MSN
Solve Holiday Stress
by Julie Lusk, M.Ed. RYT
Children with Autism and the Holidays: A Grandparent's Perspective
by Lynne Berrett, LCSW
How To Cope With A Blue Valentine
by Laura Slap-Shelton, Psy.D.
When the Holidays Turn into a Signal for Help
by Emily Carton, LISW
This Holiday Season - How Can You Be Grateful?
by Richard B. Patterson, Ph.D.
Ideas for a Priceless Holiday Gift
by Gail S. Bernstein, Ph.D.
Celebrating Our Mothers
by Patricia Pitta Ph.D., ABPP
Modern Pagan, Part VI: Are We Pagans Too?
by Joanna Poppink, M.F.C.C.
Modern Pagan, Part V: Paganism, Saturnalia and the Feast of Fools
by Joanna Poppink, M.F.C.C.
Modern Pagan, Part IV: The Moment of Change
by Joanna Poppink, M.F.C.C.
Modern Pagan, Part III: Ancient Traditions Involving Santa Claus?
by Joanna Poppink, M.F.C.C.
Modern Pagan, Part II: Winter Solstice
by Joanna Poppink, M.F.C.C.
Modern Pagan, Part I: Pagan Ritual & the Holiday Season
by Joanna Poppink, M.F.C.C.
Christmas in Heaven
by Connie Saindon, MA, MFCC, CTS
Loss in the Season of Giving
by Laura Slap-Shelton, Psy.D.
Job Hunting during the Holidays? You Betcha!
by Beverly Baskin, Ed.S, MA, LPC, MCC, NCCC
The Holidays and Illness
by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson
Holiday Food - Is Your Eating Out of Control?
by Marianne Ross, Ph.D.
Holiday Stress Tips: The Four "F"s of Holiday Friction
by Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW
The Mitzvah
by Thomas G. Shafer, MD
The Meaning of Christmas
by Mark O'Meara
The Hazards of Going Home for the Holidays
Joanna Poppink, M.F.C.C.