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December 2018: Self-Care, Connections and Gratitude

As we move into the last weeks of the calendar year, most of us are feeling the stress that comes from wrapping up.  Wrapping up work before we go on vacation, wrapping up what we thought we'd accomplish this year, wrapping up gifts for loved ones.  These feelings of stress can manifest in many ways including physically (headaches, stomachaches, fatigue), emotionally (feeling drained, feeling overwhelmed, feeling agitated or anxious) and interpersonally (snapping at others, not wanting to see others, feeling impatient with those around us).  What to do to manage this? The answer, as research suggests, is to engage in self-care, gratitude and interpersonal connections.  Both gratitude and interpersonal connections can be filed under the heading of self-care, which there has been a great deal of talk about over the last few years.  Self-care looks different for all of us but some of the beginning stages of it are the same.  When we start to feel irritated, overwhelmed, exhausted, h