7 Tips to Manage Holiday Stress (& a great giveaway!!)

Christmas stress - busy santa womanI’m having so much fun this month guest posting all over the web and introducing you to wonderful new sites to connect with.

Today I am featured at the website called EmbracingBeauty, which is a fun site that focuses on all kinds of fun girl stuff like fragrances, makeup, hair/skin/nails, fashion and ongoing awesome giveaways.

I hope you’ll take a moment to read my article over there where I share 7 practical tips for managing holiday stress.You can also enter a special Rafflecopter giveaway which ends November 25th.

Below is a sneak peek at the seven tips! Click here to hop over to EmbracingBeauty.com and you will also want to check out all the other fun topics and giveaways going on on that site, and the affiliated sites which focus on marriage, creativity, homemaking and grace.

The 7 tips sneak preview:

Plan for…

Pursue a…

Purposely get…

Party…

Prepare a…

Practice…

Promote…

After you read the article, I’d love to hear which one of these tips most resonates with you this year, or if there is one you want to remember that will help you have a more peaceful holiday. So consider coming back over to my blog and leaving a comment with your thoughts!

7 Comments

  1. Ashley - Embracing Grace on Monday, November 18, 2013 at 10:21 am

    Pursuing a positive attitude is something that my family is really focusing on this holiday season. Those are great tips, thanks for sharing!



  2. Diki on Monday, November 18, 2013 at 2:21 pm

    I love Christmas! It’s my favorite time of year and for me goes right along with Thanksgiving. My goal since i rarely get more than 5 hours sleep a night is to Purposely do my best to get at least 6 hours and maybe even 7! I also picked !Practice Fun! One of my favorite things to do is play a board game or 2 or 3, but i am sad because i can never get my itty, bitty family (which includes my 82 yr. old dad, my son, his new wife and myself. We can still have fun though so i’m praying maybe this holiday season i can get them all to slow down long enough for some game time, fun time and even some popcorn!!



  3. Kara Walker on Monday, November 18, 2013 at 8:31 pm

    Wow! All of this really speaks to me. With two demanding sides to the family, I usually feel pulled in too many directions. I am really feeling the need to simplify my life this Holiday season. So I guess Preparing a Routine is the most applicable to me this year.



  4. Michelle on Monday, November 18, 2013 at 8:48 pm

    Plan your Stress- so true! I know what stresses me out, so why not start gift shopping early and get all that done so I can actually make all the candy, enjoy the decorating and spend more time blessing others by volunteering that I wish to do every year, rather than last minute online shopping and shipping and spending more $$ to get it there in time. Black Friday here I come… I think ; )



  5. Mary T on Monday, November 18, 2013 at 11:33 pm

    Tracie, I love Thanksgiving and Christmas! Still some stress involved though! Thinking your great tips are gonna be my holiday guide! Thx for trimming your SLL guidance to meet our holiday needs! Gonna get myself a bit more organized this year. I had also already decided to limit my socializing and focus on family, especially our Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and Jesus! Celebrating His birth!



  6. Moya on Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 6:47 pm

    I love Christmas it is my favorite Some say they enjoy the getting, but I enjoy doing for others I love the baking, crafting, music, it all. Ok 1 thing I don’t like is that people don’t remember,( Why) & there rude to each other, but I try to get the most of mine done early so I can avoid that part (stress) and enjoy the season Thank you so much for all the tips. Again this was really good And Merry Christmas



  7. Machele Cave on Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 11:27 pm

    Practice Fun! I have to plan to have fun…. otherwise I will just work on all the tasks and not enjoy the season.



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