De-stressing the holidays

I want to talk about stressing the holidays.

I know many people are starting to stress in the upcoming days. Maybe you have too much to do and not enough time. Some of you are stressing about seeing relatives you can't stand. You know the ones who are judgmental, negative, or just plain mean. Maybe you're spending the holidays with a person you no longer love or want to be with, dreading putting on that "happy" face for the world.

Yes, all of this can make you want to scream. You're losing sleep over it, your hair is falling out, you can't eat or you're eating too much and you feel nauseous every time you think about it. Yes, this is real for so many people and I know firsthand what this feels like, stress sucks! It's amazing what power your mind has over your body, how something that small controls it all.

Think about it, you think of something like the holidays, and all of a sudden your body is having physical reactions to just a thought, now that is powerful. You can make literally...