About to Snap like A Christmas Kracker?
The Burnout Queen’s 12 Days of Holiday Stress Relief will help you through.

⭐Day 10:  Going Home For The Holidays Doesn’t Mean You Are 12!

Dreading that trip home?  It’s ok, you can admit it here.  What you need to do is plan some fun and pleasure before you head off home.  Now that’s just what these doctors order!

Plan early holiday time your way.  Enjoy food, drink and laughter with good friends.  Then head off to your family holiday traditions with those warm fuzzy memories safely in place.

And so you don’t regress back to12 again, take a photo of you and your friends enjoying your real, adult life.  It’s a good reality check when you’re being told to clear the table or get to bed early!

Believe,
Dr Toby & Dr Bev
The Burnout Queens

p.s. Please feel free to share these with our Holiday blessings!

About to Snap like A Christmas Kracker?
The Burnout Queen’s 12 Days of Holiday Stress Relief will help you through.

⭐Day 9:  Dread That Office Party?

Remember even though they call it ‘a party’, it’s really work!  Sure it has different trappings, unless you have champagne and canapes in the workplace!

Keep your stress down by keeping your expectations in place (and your heels on and no lampshades on the head)!

Treat ‘the do’ like a meeting ~ a time to arrive ~ a time to leave ~ best behaviour in between!

Here’s to the game!
Dr Toby & Dr Bev
The Burnout Queens

p.s. Please feel free to share these with our Holiday blessings!

About to Snap like A Christmas Kracker?
The Burnout Queen’s 12 Days of Holiday Stress Relief will help you through.

⭐Day 8:  Are You Feeling Like The Grinch? 

Oh, go on forget all the chores, forget your Absolute Musts, and certainly forget all the things you think you ‘should be doing’.  In fact, forget being an adult for a bit and look for the simple fun. 

Burst out in holiday carols, gasp with delight over holiday lights, munch away on a candy cane, make snow angel (or maybe a fort to hide from it all!), shake the presents, bite the head off that chocolate snowman!  Take one kid-like break each day of the holidays.

Keep playing!

Dr Toby & Dr Bev
The Burnout Queens

p.s. Please feel free to share these with our Holiday blessings!

About to Snap like A Christmas Kracker?
The Burnout Queen’s 12 Days of Holiday Stress Relief will help you through.

⭐Day 7: Don’t Hold Your Breath, It Will Be Over Soon!

Oh, that was close! You could expire that way. Not before the prezzies!

Instead of holding your breath, how about decreasing your stress by watching your breath.  It’s that simple.  Just sit down, close your eyes, and ‘watch’ your breath as you inhale and exhale.  Try this tiny little stress reliever right now.  In and out, in and out…imagine your breath like a coloured mist…in and out.  After a couple of minutes, open your eyes and notice how bright everything looks.

Give yourself the biggest gift of all, calmness.
Dr Toby & Dr Bev
The Burnout Queens

p.s. Please feel free to share these with our Holiday blessings!

About to Snap like A Christmas Kracker?
The Burnout Queen’s 12 Days of Holiday Stress Relief will help you through.

Day 6:  Ready To Bolt For The Airport?

Take a mental vacation and daydream about your favourite holiday spot.  Better yet, dig out a photo of your favourite relaxing place ~ the lake, beach, mountains, shopping mall ~ keep it close at hand.

When you feel your holiday blood pressure rising, take 2-3 minutes and just gaze at your photo ~ close your eyes and imagine all the sites, sounds, sensations and smells.  Repeat as needed.  There is no such thing as too much vacation time!

May visions of sugar plums, or palm trees, dance in your head!
Dr Toby & Dr Bev
The Burnout Queens

p.s. Please feel free to share these with our Holiday blessings!