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I By Orlando Ramirez anity and the holidays — two words you don’t often hear together. Instead of being a time of joy and peace, the holiday season has become a period of stress and tension for many. Yet there are ways to beat the end-of-the-year blues. “The holidays are always a time of high stress,” says Donna Watson, author of “101 Simple Ways to Be Good to Yourself’ (Energy Press). “First, there are memories people have in their heads of previous holidays. They try so hard to duplicate these occasions that they usually remember as being a lot more joyous than they actually were. “Then with all the shopping, cooking, decorating and baking, people are absolutely exhausted. They end up having no time or energy to enjoy the season and later find themselves asking, ‘Is that all there is?”’ One of the main causes of holiday stress is family, particularly if the parents are divorced and custody problems arise. Often, the children will alternate the holidays with parents — Thanksgiving with Mom, See Sane, Page 36
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