Are The Holidays Bad For Our Health?
Shannon Harvey
There is one sentence in the English language guaranteed to trigger a stress response in my body and a friend said it to me the other day. ‘There are just four weeks until Christmas.’ I instantly felt panic rising in my body with thoughts like ‘I haven’t bought any presents,’ ‘There goes my diet,’ and ‘Here come the late nights.’ To me, the modern version of the ‘Silly Season’ seems completely out of whack with the origins of many of the traditions that we celebrate. In the US, it starts with Thanksgiving and then the rest of the world... Read full article »