CHRISTMAS HELP
Lots of people find Christmas a particularly difficult time of year. If you are feeling stressed, or worried about money the Christmas rush, relationships or alcohol, we hope this page will encourage you - and perhaps provide some useful 'Christmas Survival Strategies'. If money is a problem, or if Christmas looks like being a time of debt for you, try our Christmas Debt page.
However, if you are IN DESPAIR please take a look at our special page of help. For more general difficulties, try the General Help Page.
Christmas Stress:
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES
LOST YOUR CHRISTMAS SPIRIT?
Forgot where you packed your Christmas spirit? (Whatever the Christmas spirit is!) Let Women Today Magazine help you find it!THE CHRISTMAS RUSH
Surviving Christmas StressEnjoy Christmas more this year . . .
Relax! Slow Down This Christmas
Ways to put a little relaxation back into your Christmas season without adding too much to your busy schedule.
The Christmas Rush
It can rob our souls.
A QUIZ - Will you do it now? Or later?
"Are You a Procrastinator?"
Take this quiz to find out!
Question 1: It's Christmas Eve. You are . . .
Christmas Pure and Simple!
"Fragmented", she replied when I asked her how she was feeling. She had 'bought into' the common philosophy that being busy is somehow a virtue.
WHEN THE HOLIDAYS GET A BIT TOO MERRY
Problem DrinkingOh boy! The holidays are coming! The season of good cheer, of celebration and toasts, a time of lifting the ol' cup of kindness to our lips in anticipation of... of... Glad anticipation? Or dread? As a recovering alcoholic, I know all too well how potentially awkward and downright embarrassing the holidays can be for the family and loved ones of problem drinkers....
RELATIONSHIPS:
Being a Parent at Christmas
Two True Stories
Single Parenting: Christmas Crisis
I recall the verbal dart that had pierced my heart eight years ago, the one about not wanting to be anything like me. And I know there isn't a better time for forgiving than during this season for giving.
Christmas and Sibling Rivalry
Minimize Competition: While sibling rivalry cannot be entirely eliminated, Dr. James Dobson offers ways to reduce the extent of it over Christmas.
MONEY AT CHRISTMAS
The Christmas spendAn organized approach.
Credit Action
Money Saving Ideas, Self help guides and budget sheets, Information sheets, Challenges/Quizzes/Games from the national money education charity.
Consumer Credit Counselling Service (CCCS) helpline.
For immediate help with debt and money advice,
call the Helpline on
0800 138 1111
Self Help
Guide to Dealing with Debt
Free download from Credit Action
Debt: spotting the danger signs
Keith Tondeur from Credit Action looks at the dreaded D word - and how to tackle it.
Five Gifts to Give Your Children
Valuable gifts that don't cost money.
What to buy for the person who has everything?
Never mind the absurdity of the question. The fact is . . .
Pay it forward
Charles Stanley has a reminder for the Christmas season
URGENT!
CONSIDERING SUICIDE?
If it's more than just 'Stress'
PLEASE READ THIS FIRST
You Can Survive Christmas Holiday Depression
For many people, Christmas is the saddest time of year. In a culture that is obsessed with all things Christmas, it is easy to feel like an alien when our thoughts and feelings are anything but merry . . .
This article from
'I Am Next' is mainly aimed at university students but will be helpful to everyone.
Messages of Hope
- for When Christmas Hurts
HOME ALONE
The holidays are hard to face alone. . . Christmas can be a heartbreaker. Just because you're not going to be surrounded by family this year is no reason not to have a great Christmas. Women Today Magazine shows how, with a little planning, it can be a wonderful time of year.
ALONE - BUT NOT LONELY
Breaking the stereotype - Retirement With a Purpose Magazine says that many senior singles are not depressed or lonely.
COMING HOME TO A PLACE CALLED HOPE
Jim Robinson has been very lost, lonely . . . very afraid. He admits that there is "no simple solution to the issues of depression, mental illness, or addiction; to pass along a cure on the shoulders of spiritual platitudes would be both simplistic and cruel" - but he does offer real hope, from a view point of one who knows.
GIVING HOPE IN THE HOLIDAYS
Missing packages and empty chairs make no secret that life has changed. Have you ever had to ask yourself, "How can I give hope to the grieving during the holidays?" This article helps you to
encourage someone who has lost a person they loved.
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