Holiday Stress

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. 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 this “journey of spiritual transformation” (Publishers Weekly) award winning author Rabbi Alan Lew follows the practices and rituals of the Jewish High Holy Days and guides readers through heartbreak, contemplation, and re-birth. There are times in life when we are caught utterly...

🔥 Burn Fat, Lose Weight, and Stay Merry Even During the Holidays! 🔥 Struggling to find a weight loss program that works and doesn't feel like torture? Want to shed those extra pounds but dread giving up on your holiday treats? This game-changing book is your solution!✨ Discover the Secret to Easy Weight Loss ✨ "Ditch the Diet, Embrace the Walk" is the mantra you'll learn to live by. This book enlightens you about the surprising and scientifically backed fact – walking can help you burn fat faster than high-intensity runs, and you don't have to break a sweat for it. Your body's ...

Breathwork for Holiday Stress: Simple Techniques to Find Calm and Joy The holiday season should bring peace and connection — but too often it brings overwhelm, anxiety, and exhaustion. This comforting guide shows you how to use breathwork for holiday stress to restore calm and joy. Blending modern self help books for women and self development books for men styles with breathing techniques to calm anxiety and stress, you’ll discover tools to manage stress, mindfulness practices, and simple routines that work. Inside you’ll find: • Morning and evening breathing routines that ground ...

Tired of a beautiful December that wrecks January? Get a simple, stress-free Christmas plan that cuts overspending—without losing the joy. Have Yourself a Frugal Christmas helps you spend less, stress less, and enjoy more with practical steps you can use right away. Inside, you’ll get: The Calm Christmas Plan — a step-by-step framework to set priorities and build a holiday budget you can actually keep. Money-Smart Moves — generous gift, food, décor, and travel strategies that feel thoughtful, never stingy. Kind Boundary Scripts — ready-to-use phrases for trimming gift lists, ...

Forget perfect. Remember real. Tired of the soul-crushing holiday stress to create a Pinterest-perfect celebration? The Art of Imperfect Holidays is your survival guide for holiday anxiety relief—a funny, practical permission slip to ditch perfection, set boundaries, and actually enjoy the season. It's time to stop performing and start living. Let’s be honest: the “perfect” holiday is a scam. Your favorite influencer? Hiding a mountain of dirty dishes off-camera. The neighbor with the glowing lawn? Untangling lights while swearing in the bushes. Grandma’s flawless pie? She bought ...

Demi Fedora yearns for freedom from all the rules and restrictions she’s lived with day to day. As the manager of Fulton House, a refuge for runaway street kids, heartaches, responsibilities, and pain pile on every day until she can’t see her way out of the stressful tunnel. When forced to sell or fight off the bigshot buyers, she decides to let others take on the battle. After losing the first and only man she’s let herself love, her spirit crumbles and the will to continue fades. That’s when she remembers the cabin her grandfather left her in Alaska. She packs up her few ...

From the author of the bestselling Pecked to Death by Ducks: How Minutiae Can Distract You from Living Your Best Life comes a refreshingly honest and relatable guide to reclaiming your peace during the most chaotic time of the year—the holidays. In Six Geese A-Laying: The Never-Ending Holiday Ducks, Brandn returns to tackle the unique pressures and expectations that come with the festive season. Just like in Pecked to Death by Ducks, where the small distractions of life can keep you from thriving, this new book delves into how the holidays, with their endless to-do lists and demands, can ...

She got ditched. He got lucky. Tropes: Wrong Date / Right Guy • Protective Hero • Insta-Attraction • Holiday Romance Vibe: Short Read • Feel Good • Low-Stress • No Trigger Warnings • Happy for Now Spice Level: ❤️❤️❤️ High-Heat Kisses & Sensuality (corn mazes have rules) The best dates start with the wrong guy. When Brook’s date ditches her in a haunted corn maze, she decides her love life’s officially gone to seed. But the night takes an unexpected turn when another man—with a crooked smile and a pumpkin-spiced chai—steps out of the crowd and into her life....

What if the greatest barrier to peace in your life isn’t your circumstances—but your standards? In a world obsessed with flawless holidays, perfect families, and curated lives, many of us silently crumble under the weight of impossible expectations. We tell ourselves that if we can just work harder, do better, and fix everything, then—finally—we’ll feel peace. But the truth is far more freeing: perfection and peace cannot coexist. One must give way to the other. In Perfection Is the Enemy of Peace, Pastor John E. Miller offers a compassionate, faith-rooted look at how ...

The holidays are a magical time… unless you’re the cat. Between the blinking lights, the shiny breakables, the loud humans, and the endless temptation of that tree you just had to put up, the holiday season is a battlefield for even the most dignified feline. Luckily, Mr. Dill Pickles, your favorite tuxedo-clad feline overlord, is here to help! With his signature wit and whiskered wisdom, Mr. Dill Pickles delivers a hilarious yet eye-opening guide to surviving the holiday chaos. From dodging toxic tinsel and terrifying toddlers to finding your quiet spot among the madness, this book is ...

Through a radical new approach to manifesting the life of your dreams, subconscious breakthrough coach Haley Hoffman Smith empowers you to embrace the potential within your own mind to unlock magical change in your world. “Prepare to have your life changed.” —Kathrin Zenkina, Manifestation...

Sick and alone with her three-year-old daughter at Christmastime, Belle Foster needs help. When her neighbor’s brother gets involved, she welcomes the soft-spoken good-looker into her world. Rescuing her kidnapped daughter isn’t part of the deal, but any man willing to babysit his sister’s menagerie of pets and cares that much about a stranger’s baby is a guy she wants to get to know much better. Jesse has only loved one woman in his life. Years ago, she left him with a broken heart, a crippling dependency, and too many poignant memories. No one can replace her. No other woman has ...

If your holiday spirit usually comes with a side of exhaustion, resentment, and late-night wrapping-fueled rage, this book is for you. The Giver’s Guide to Receiving is your warm, hilarious, and unflinchingly honest blueprint for surviving—and actually enjoying—the “season of giving” without sacrificing yourself in the process. We’ve all been there: Saying "yes" to every invitation (even the ones that make your eye twitch) Cooking for 25 while pretending you’re fine Spending money you don’t have to avoid disappointing people Hosting again because “no one else can do it ...

Parents love to read children a bedtime story that describes a faraway land or a fantastic character. What is that parent doing? They’re shifting their child’s focus from the activity of the day into a more relaxed state. They are refocusing their child’s brain. And it works! Because every night all over the world parents use this technique to help their children fall asleep. Even though you are an adult, you can benefit from bedtime stories too.

Here's how to stay calm, kind, and (mostly) sane during the holidays—even when your relatives think boundaries are optional. Every year you promise yourself this season will be different: fewer meltdowns, more meaning. Then the group chat explodes, your aunt asks about your love life, and someone brings up politics over pie. Cue stress, guilt, and the faint smell of panic. The Mindful Feast by Chloe Vance—author of The Art of Imperfect Holidays and The Giver’s Guide to Receiving—is your hilarious, heartfelt guide to surviving the social chaos of the holidays while keeping your cool,...

The holidays promise joy—but for many, they deliver something else. Family gatherings bring old wounds to the surface. Unspoken tension fills familiar rooms. Expectations collide with reality. And the season meant to heal often magnifies what’s unresolved. Hollow for the Holidays is a compassionate guide for those who feel the ache beneath the celebration. Written in a warm, pastoral voice, this book explores why going home can feel emotionally draining—even when no one has passed away and everyone is still present. Through relatable fictional stories, thoughtful reflection, Scripture...

A Perfect Storm Should Jenna let her son be home-schooled in the very house of the girl who put him in his wheelchair? And can she trust the handsome father of that unhappy child to teach her son? Alone at Christmas Being alone is Tara’s worst nightmare, especially during the holidays. Her wish comes true when she finds Mr. Right injured and stranded, but will they survive the dangerous storm? Christmas, Puppies & Romance He has his claim on the very fluffball she wants... the fight is on. She needs the puppy to help her mother overcome her grief after losing her husband. What’s his ...

For anyone experiencing loneliness, which may be intensified by the holiday season. This book offers strategies for survival with a progression that includes: acceptance, coping, empowerment and thriving. No matter what caused your circumstances, if you are feeling overwhelmed by expectations, this book may help. If you are grieving a loss, this book may help. If you are in a relationship but feel alone, this book may help. If you need a fresh Holiday perspective with more emphasis on self care, this book may help. If you are in need of understanding and acceptance this book is a great gift...

Tired of feeling like the holiday season is one big stress-induced scavenger hunt? In Holiday Hot Mess to Holiday Success, you’ll discover a supportive, laugh-out-loud roadmap to navigating holiday chaos with confidence, calm, and just enough festive sparkle to stay merry — or at least slightly merry. Inside, you'll learn how to: Manage holiday stress (without losing your mind) Set boundaries like a pro Outsmart procrastination Handle difficult family dynamics Simplify gifting, hosting, cooking & organizing Keep the holidays fun for YOU too Recover from the holiday rush Create ...