
All Is Calmish
How to Feel Less Frantic and More Festive During the Holidays
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Stop forcing holiday cheer and start embracing the season in a way that truly resonates with you. Discover simple, daily strategies for cultivating peace, balance, and genuine joy as you navigate the holidays with grace.
Merry and bright? Yeah, right. During the holidays, many of us are anything but cheerful. Thanksgiving, Diwali, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year's often make us frazzled and frantic. Stressed and stretched. Distressed and depressed.
From psychotherapist Niro Feliciano, author of This Book Won't Make You Happy and frequent TODAY show contributor, comes a book to help you move beyond holiday pressures and maintain perspective when it matters most. All Is Calmish dispenses a therapist's strategies for surviving the season. As a mother of four and sought-after expert on mental health, Feliciano sees our valiant attempts to be happy and create a magical holiday. Meanwhile we are actually exhausted and anxious from managing family drama, loneliness, grief, crazy schedules, and overwhelming debt. The truth is, the holidays can be the hardest time of the year. But with Feliciano's help, they don't have to be.
In thirty-one short chapters, Feliciano gives us daily prompts and rituals rooted in research, brain science, and the wisdom of spiritual traditions, to help us set boundaries, create meaningful connections, start new traditions, and manage the season with greater ease.
While the holidays may not be perfect, All Is Calmish reminds us that with intention and grace, we can still make them meaningful and memorable, finding our way to wholeness and well-being--and maybe even something that feels a bit like calm.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note to You, My Dear Reader
- 1. I Am Freaking Merry!
- 2. A Silent Night Morning
- 3. The “I Get To” Shift
- 4. Snow Days
- 5. A Season of Thanksgiving
- 6. Great Expectations
- 7. What to Expect When You Are Expecting . . . a Holiday
- 8. Angels in Our Midst
- 9. Choosing Joy
- 10. Finding Strength in Uncertainty
- 11. Faith over Fear
- 12. Snapshot of the Sleigh Ride
- 13. Eight Greatish Nights
- 14. Contentment. For Life
- 15. Connected and Content
- 16. Holiday Drama 101
- 17. The Three Ds of Holiday Conflict
- 18. Is Less Really More?
- 19. The Empty Seat
- 20. A Perspective on Pain
- 21. The Holiday A-List (A Is for Anxiety)
- 22. A Reset for the Season
- 23. Unexpected Gifts
- 24. Disappointing Gifts
- 25. A Tale of Two Christmases
- 26. Presence over Presents
- 27. To Holiday Card, or Not
- 28. If You Believe
- 29. Wonder
- 30. Miracles in the Mess
- 31. New Year, Same Me
- Ten Ideas to Keep the Holidays Simple and Memorable
- Acknowledgments
- Notes