by Mary Blackburn | Nov 13, 2017 | Gluten-Free Holidays, Stress
Is it possible to have stress-less holidays? I know, the turkey is only half cooked, you don’t have all the ingredients for the mashed potatoes, the cranberry sauce is more like a cranberry juice and you have no idea what to do with all of the green beans. Sound...
by Mary Blackburn | Oct 30, 2017 | Stress
Christmas Is One of the Most Stressful Times of the Year You would think with the beauty of this holiday that it would be a time of reflection, a time to sit in front of a crackling fire and drink hot cocoa and snuggle beneath a thick, fluffy throw – but that’s...
by Mary Blackburn | Dec 26, 2016 | Family Life, Stress
Dealing with grief or feeling sad when everyone expects you to be happy is rough. This is a subject pretty near to my heart. I lost my mother just two days before Christmas in 2012. She was 89, had congestive heart failure and had suffered a massive stroke, so we...
by Mary Blackburn | Dec 6, 2013 | Stress
The Holidays… They are supposed to be happy, fun-filled, family times, but between work, home, kids, traveling, the obligatory baking, the in-laws, they can turn into a stress-filled, anxiety-wrought nightmare that you just can’t wait for them to be over....
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