Surviving the holiday season | Mental health and the holidays

Would you like some ideas to help you with surviving the holiday season with your mental health intact? Want tips for dealing with mental health and the holidays? Well, that’s what this video is all about! This can be a really difficult time of year for a variety of reasons — family challenges, financial commitments, the fact that All I Want For Christmas is now officially playing on an infinite loop everywhere you go — so in this week’s video I’m talking about mental health and the holidays, with ideas to help you look after your wellbeing whatever you may (or may not) be doing, and regardless of whether you celebrate any of the major events or not. So… let’s talk about better mental health!

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Chapters in this video:

0:00 Mental health and the holidays
1:06 Why the holidays can be tough
2:49 Take things at your own pace
3:26 All things in moderation
4:06 Be mindful with money
5:08 Surviving holiday season travel
6:04 The secret to making it through the holidays
7:17 Be considerate to others
8:03 Discover more practical advice for better mental health

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Better Mental Health is all about simple and practical ideas for improving your mental health written and presented by Jeremy Godwin, and it draws on quality research as well as personal experience. It’s about much more than just talk or theories; each episode focuses on practical ways you can improve your overall wellbeing through better mental health.

For even more weekly advice, check out the Let’s Talk About Mental Health podcast with new episodes every Sunday focused on one specific aspect of better mental health (like overthinking, being present, triggers etc) and join listeners in more than 150 countries around the world… because the more we talk about it, the easier it gets.

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[lhill]

🎄Love it! This video was helpful to me! I shared this video with my clients in my private practice! Wishing you much success with your YT channel and podcast!

[nidrayogisleep]

🎄Great advice. This is the one area I feel I've cracked. After years of watching mostly the females in my family burn themselves out over the festive period, all the planning, spending worries, buying etc and cooking into the wee hours enough food to feed most of the UK, then the over indulgence and frazzled tensions, to reach fever pitch perfection for 1-2 days. I did follow that for a short while but decided to do things my way which did rock the family boat but they soon got used to it. So, I set a budget and only buy token things I know are wanted for immediate family and very close friends, hubby and I plan our stay with the family and again, we do it our way: we watch our food and drink intake, go for regular walks, go for our granny/grandad naps (as the family call it), to recharge and we come away feeling like we've had a great break, while the rest go a bit overboard and feel drained. They take the piss a bit sometimes thinking we are boring farts, but we don't seem to experience the aftermath low we see so many suffer. We don't even bother about decorations if we are away from home and last year, I did a Mexican themed Christmas dinner 😁 I highly recommend your advice Jeremy and do Christmas your own way!

PS my birthday is Christmas eve so that used to add to the stress a few years back until I decided to celebrate on my terms, I look forward to it now and enjoy it 😁

[lloydwiltshire]

Yet again Jeremy the timing of your advice is impeccable. So I’m gonna keep it simple and just say with all sincerity Thankyou very much.

[SaleaSharpeShows]

It's 2024 and grateful you made this video. Still relevant and helpful!🎄

[donnaking]

🎄Mariah made me do it, love your work 😂

[purronnaspaw]

Thank you.. very helpful video with excellent tips. Happy holidays.

[morganmckenzie]

🎄Thank you for the wonderful advice and video, as always! :)

[missellendiane]

RIP daddy- He would have been 96 on 12/22- He passed on 12/19- thank you