Saturday, December 3, 2011

Holiday Crunch

During the pre-holiday season, women are particularly inclined to exhaust themselves in an effort to create the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. For those of us with chronic illness, this is a particularly risky time. We think that we can just push a little more, and a little more, and then just a little more and that we will recover later. As the holidays draw near, we keep on trudging, knowing in our hearts that we are doing too much.

Reality check. What is the most important thing about the holidays for you and your family? Does your family really need 15 types of cookies and pies? What do they think is more important-you or the 15 types of cookies and pies? What do you think is more important? Is it really a good holiday if you have all the trappings but you end up crashing and can't enjoy time with the people you love? If you do just one thing this month, ask yourself several times a day, "What do I need to do to take care of myself right now?" If you end up in bed, or worse, in the hospital, what kind of holiday will your family have?

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