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Maintaining Peace Throughout the Holidays: Part III

My friend said to me a couple weeks ago, “How am I going to get it all done?”
She said, “I am in the process of moving from one house to another house, my husband is out of the country, I have 4 kids under the age of 8 (twins under a year) and I have [...]

Maintaining Peace Throughout the Holidays: Part II

Thanksgiving is the official mark of Christmas being less than 4 weeks away which manifests holiday shopping, holiday stress, holiday craziness…or does it have to be that way? Absolutely NOT! We naturally default into the holiday insanity unless we choose not to. We forget we have the ability to make choices with our brains and [...]

Maintaining Peace Throughout the Holidays. Part I

As the holidays quickly approach, there is a feeling of not only excitement in the air but also the impending dread of cooking for days, shopping with 10 times the people in the stores, driving on the roads with people that are angryand in a hurry and seeing relatives that you  just don’t care to [...]