{"id":5389,"date":"2023-12-15T20:03:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/how-to-handle-holiday-burnout\/"},"modified":"2023-12-31T09:14:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T13:14:08","slug":"how-to-handle-holiday-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/how-to-handle-holiday-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Handle Holiday Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>\n<div class=\"elementor elementor-136155\" data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"136155\">\n<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f0b3132 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f0b3132\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-59e0dfb\" data-id=\"59e0dfb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-02ebae3 elementor-drop-cap-yes elementor-drop-cap-view-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"02ebae3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;drop_cap&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n<p>It\u2019s the holiday season. We love to talk about holiday fun, and we also love to talk about holiday burnout.<\/p>\n<p>For many people, the holidays leave us feeling overwhelmed or exhausted rather than refreshed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBurnout\u201d is a very broad term. <em>Why<\/em> do you feel burned out? Because if you identify the problem, you\u2019re much better able to address it.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, if you\u2019re feeling burned out because you\u2019ve been staying up late every night, drinking and eating unhealthfully, and missing your usual work-outs and meditation, you need one kind of solution.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re feeling burned out because you want to make the holidays perfect for your whole family, but you have a fifteen-page to-do list and no one is helping you, you need a different kind of solution.<\/p>\n<p>First, identify the source\u2014or sources\u2014of your burn-out. Then consider these solutions:<\/p>\n<h2>Solutions for holiday burnout<\/h2>\n<h4><strong>If you\u2019re feeling overwhelmed by everyday stress\u2026<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The holidays and the year\u2019s end is a busy season with a lot of expectations. If you\u2019re feeling stress due to travel, working overtime, or taking stock of your personal goals, these reminders can help you avoid getting too exhausted:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Treat yourself like a toddler\u2014Don\u2019t let yourself get too tired, too cold, too hot, too hungry, or too overwhelmed<\/li>\n<li>Find some fun\u2014if this holiday is supposed to be fun, make sure that you are, indeed, having some fun (and your idea of fun may be very different from other people\u2019s ideas of fun)<\/li>\n<li>Put yourself in the mood\u2014get in touch with the fun part of the holidays by playing holiday music, watching a holiday movie, eating a nostalgic food from your childhood, or doing an activity like cookie-baking\u2014in my family, we decorate graham-cracker houses (like gingerbread houses, but much easier to make)<\/li>\n<li>Be grateful\u2014feeling grateful helps drive out feelings of irritation, anger, and resentment. Look for reasons to appreciate what you have, and to thank the people who worked to create it.<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledge what you\u2019ve done\u2014Give yourself a gold star, make a ta-da list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong><br \/>\nIf you\u2019re navigating tricky social dynamics\u2026<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The holiday season also comes with a disruption to our usual social calendar. We might struggle to deal with difficult relatives, experience feelings of loss due to death or change, or feel the pressure of expectations around entertaining and socializing. Obligers especially tend to feel burdened by everything expected of them (don\u2019t know if you\u2019re an Obliger, Questioner, Rebel, or Upholder? Take this quiz to find out). When dealing with people, traditions, and social expectations, it can be helpful to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find some time alone if you need it\u2014when we\u2019re staying with my family, my husband always volunteers to run to the grocery store. Once he went <em>three times<\/em> in one day. He loves any excuse to go to the grocery store (odd, right?), and this task gives him a way to be helpful, do something he enjoys, and get much-needed time alone<\/li>\n<li>Do good\u2014do good, feel good. Volunteer, help a neighbor, pitch in, donate money to a cause you believe in, donate blood, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.organdonor.gov\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up to be an organ donor<\/a>, reach out to someone who may be feeling lonely or sad during this time<\/li>\n<li>Avoid strife\u2014if you know you\u2019re going to argue needlessly with someone, try not to engage<\/li>\n<li>Be understanding\u2014if traditions are very important to others, try to stay patient and play your part<\/li>\n<li>Ask for help or delegate\u2014don\u2019t wait for people to volunteer or assume you have to do everything yourself!<\/li>\n<li>Avoid drinking too much\u2014and if you notice someone else trying to curb their own drinking, don\u2019t make a fuss or urge them to partake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong><br \/>\nIf you\u2019re struggling to keep everything in order\u2026<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Between endless to-do lists for decorating, cooking, cleaning, and planning, as well as the stress around gift-giving, it can be a challenge to stay organized and get it all done.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you need help with gift-giving, take this quiz\u00a0to help get some good ideas<\/li>\n<li>See the funny side of a screw-up. If something does go wrong, remember my Secret of Adulthood: \u201cThe things that go wrong often make the best memories\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Set a budget and stick to it<\/li>\n<li>Be realistic\u2014If you want everything to be perfect, try to lighten up; don\u2019t let the perfect be the enemy of the good<\/li>\n<li>Make concrete plans\u2014I find that things that can be done at <em>any<\/em> time are often done at <em>no<\/em> time (shopping, wrapping, getting holidays cards ready, visiting the annual holiday light display, etc.), so to ensure that key tasks get done, consider putting them on the calendar<\/li>\n<li>Allow traditions to evolve\u2014I remember how hard it was for me to give up my family tradition of having a live Christmas tree. But it just didn\u2019t work: we live in a New York City apartment, and we spent Christmas week with my parents in Kansas City, anyway<\/li>\n<li>Lower the bar\u2014find short-cuts, change your expectations, look for ways to make things easier. In my extended family, we changed our gift-giving tradition so now we buy fewer, less expensive presents. We still have the fun of buying and opening gifts, but it\u2019s less stressful<\/li>\n<li>Make entertaining easier\u2014find <a href=\"https:\/\/gretchenrubin.com\/articles\/hacks-for-entertaining\/\">lots of entertaining hacks here<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Clean as you go\u2014for most people, outer order contributes to inner calm, especially at busy times, so put your dishes in the dishwasher, hang up your coat, make your bed, take out the trash, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What strategies have you used to fight holiday burnout?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the holiday season. 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