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Home Articles Gifted Adults Ready or Not, the Holidays are Coming!
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Written by Sharon Barnes   
Saturday, 21 November 2009 20:22
Do you dread the holidays? Eagerly anticipate them? Do both at once? Here's CSIGY (Creative, Sensitive, Introverted, Gifted) Tips and Tools to Stay Balanced Through the Holidays:

Hollywood’s images of perfect family holidays set up unrealistic expectations that can never be met. Let’s face it, we can’t possibly measure up to the Norman Rockwell or "It’s a Wonderful Life" ideal. So why not take the pressure off to be perfect and enjoy the season? If your well-being has become the last priority in your life, it’s time to learn how to EEEK your way through the holidays.

EEEK stands for Experience it, Explore it, learn to Embrace it, and Kreate something with it to heal our lives. These are the mind-body-spirit skills that will enable you to heal yourself. Doing Creative Handwork like quilting, bead work, whittling, metalwork or knitting helps you to “download” your emotions; and by turning it into what I call Contemplative Handwork, you experience its power to heal your life. This is hands-on Play Therapy for Adults.

Many CSIGY's eagerly anticipate the holidays and dread them at the same time. They have high expectations of themselves or others that are impossible to meet. There is too much to do, and it all seems important. Creative, Sensitive, Introverted and/or Gifted people also want to DO it all, yet feel torn because they need solitude and quiet to connect with the deep spirituality and soulfulness of the holidays-and they may feel empty and the holidays may be void of meaning without this deep spiritual connection.

Winter is deepening, and with it may come an instinct to hibernate, which also conflicts with keeping up with holiday events and responsibilities. With the waning light may come awareness of inner darkness as well. Grief and loss can loom large as others celebrate. Need I say more?

Would you like some Tips and Tools for staying balanced through the holidays?

I am providing a Mini-Playshop for those in the Denver area to provide them.

Those who attend will learn:
  • Ten Ways to Maximize Your Holiday Happiness
  • Seven Ways to Manage Your Holiday Expectations
  • How to Activate Your Creativity to heal your life-even during the holidays
  • Navigating Tangled Family Connections and Expectations
  • Coping With Grief During the Season to Be Jolly
Click here to learn more so you can stay balanced through the holidays this year!

Not in the Denver area? Click here to get our free report, Holiday Stress Tip Sheet
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Last Updated on Sunday, 22 November 2009 11:48
 
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Trillian
Ready or Not, the Holidays are Coming!
Dec 11 2009 02:07:31
What I want to know is when will I come out of hibernation?

Seriously, good advice in your article.

I would like to add a warning to watch your hypersensitivities and any reactive bad temper you might be prone to. For me, it's my noisy party-animal neighbours with their bass driver long into the wee hours of the morning. The excuse is holiday parties... and the police are slack on enforcing the rights of party poopers at this time. I find I must go gently to persuade people I'm truly put out. (I've hyperaccusis as a giftedness sensitivity and migraines result, but I have to say only that I'm ill and need my rest.) Hey, at least I'm not expected to attend their 90% content-free cavorting. [Shudder.] I am looking forward to my own party of introverted friends, though. It promises to be filled with storytelling and quiet quips and giggles in a relaxed loungy atmosphere. [Blissful smile.]
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Spastica
Re:Ready or Not, the Holidays are Coming!
Dec 30 2009 14:18:25
I think this is a great idea. If I brought knitting or somesuch to family gatherings I would have somehting to keep me occupied that was soothing, creative, and gives me the illusion of being social because I'm not buried in a book.

Yay! I love this suggestion!
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