How to Manage Holiday Stress - 50 Survival Tips to Help You Save Yourself During Emotionally Stressful Times

This year there are scores of people feeling stressed as we approach the holiday season: facing personal loss, stressed by the need to get everything done before the holidays, or feeling disgusted by holiday materialism. Cheryl Perlitz, Chicago motivational speaker and life change expert, offers 50 free survival tips to help your readers and listeners to survive the holidays emotionally and physically. www.soarwithme.com/holidaysurvivaltips.html

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 21, 2006 -- This year there are scores of people feeling stressed as we approach the holiday season: facing personal loss, stressed by the need to get everything done before the holidays, or feeling disgusted by holiday materialism. Cheryl Perlitz, Chicago motivational speaker and life change expert, offers 50 free survival tips to help your readers and listeners to survive the holidays emotionally and physically. www.soarwithme.com/holidaysurvivaltips.html

• Over 50% of marriages end in divorce, and there are 8.7 deaths per 1000 people a year. Thousands of people are facing the pain of grief and loss.

• Our world is moving faster and faster. People feel so much pressure to make more money, have more things, and accomplish more and more, that they have trouble measuring up.

• Unexpected natural disasters, job loss, and financial pressures have thrown people into tough times that cause mounting financial stress.

• The media and retail stores are constantly bombarding us with too much, too fast, too early - and the pressure mounts.

For all of those people, the holidays are not a time for joy and celebration, but a time of mounting holiday stress, leading to anxiety and emotional pain.

We are either dealing with loss ourselves, or we know someone else who is.

Cheryl Perlitz, mountain climber and life change expert, experienced a life time of loss in four months. Surviving the tough period after major loss and adjusting to a new life, taught her that the survival skills she experienced on the mountain apply even more in our daily lives.

Cheryl says, "Survivors are those who choose to take care of themselves first, create a positive environment, surround themselves with a positive people, take charge of their lives, and give to others."

Cheryl shares her unique perspective on "How to survive the holidays if you are hurting."

--Take care of yourself
Make sure you take care of yourself with pampering, small gifts, physical and emotional self care.

--Simplify
Say no to unnecessary activities, get rid of negative people, and find simple solutions to the holidays that can make your life easier at this time.

--Do Things you've always wanted to do - but didn't
Try new things that are creative, simple and even a little risky.

--Surround yourself with lots of color, great smells and positive things
Nurture yourself with an environment that makes you feel better: sounds, fragrances, and bright colors.

--Surround yourself with life, people and activity
Connect with people, old and new, known and unknown - and animals that give you unconditional love.

--Honor the people who are missing from our lives during the holidays
Honor old memories, talk about loved ones, show pictures, and reconnect with old friends.
                
--Change traditions but keep some things the same
Keep some things the same but be open to create new traditions that work better with a changing situation.

--Give to others
Giving to others warms your heart, puts your life in perspective and takes the focus away from your own feelings.

Cheryl Perlitz is the author of 3 inspiring books, a dynamic speaker and frequent radio and television talk show guest. Her fun and motivational stories and survival tips help listeners and readers to transform their challenges into opportunities for positive change.

To receive the free downloadable 50 holiday survival tips and learn specifics on how to manage holiday stress go to www.soarwithme.com/holidaysurvivaltips.com

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To book an interview call: cell 847-609-8032 or go to www.soarwithme.com

Cheryl is available for last minute interviews

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