Holiday Blues: Navigating the Season When You are Sad

Holiday Blues happen. Let’s normalize this. Let’s normalize talking about it and coming up with strategies that allow us to feel those feelings and when ready move yourself forward.

So often you come up with a way of masking how you feel. What If this season you did it differently? Show up how you are! Take a break from events! Ask for support!

When you try to push through events and the holidays, this leads to more stress, sadness, anxiety and burnout. Take ease and time during the holidays to feel your feelings, process them and engage in strategies that can move you to feeling WHOLE.

"holiday blues and stress can be tied together," ……."The best way to know if you are dealing with one or the other is to take time to slow down. By slowing down, you can take time to look within."

What brings on Holiday Blues? There are a number of things. Feeling like you need to do it all over the holidays. Life transitions. Grief which may be a current loss or a past loss. Financial struggles. Less sunlight. Loneliness. Not feeling enough. Relationship struggles. Attempting to keep up with what society, moms, family, friends think you “should” be doing over the holidays. Over scheduling yourself.

I shared with Samantha Leal over at Pop Sugar ways to cope and navigate Holiday Blues. You can read it at the link below.

If you are feeling holiday blues, stress or depression, you are not alone. Support is available. Let’s work together to build strategies for this year and the years to come. Fill out the form to schedule your complimentary consult call.