The holidays are stressful. Restore your calm with these 5 quick tricks
4 months, 1 week ago

The holidays are stressful. Restore your calm with these 5 quick tricks

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The holidays are stressful. "If you're sitting in a lot of traffic, clenching your hands on the steering wheel and tensing your face, that's not going to help you accept what is happening," says Taitz. Then exhale for two or three times longer than you inhaled, with gently pursed lips as if you're blowing through a straw," says Harris. Now this doesn't mean disassociating, says Harris, "which is a kind of trauma response develop as children when things are too much to take." Sponsor Message No matter how overwhelming your holidays get, try to think of these techniques as "an opportunity for you to practice skills that will help you for the rest of your life," says Harris.

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