Happy Christmas to all my readers, and I hope you will not be facing emotional distress when things do not work out so well this Christmas. That is the subject of the latest update to my Happiness Blog, here:
http://www.abc-counselling.com/id143.html
This is how the update begins:
Christmas is coming, and the goose is (according to traditional belief) getting fat. If you listen to the radio, you will detect a definite cranking up of the commercial fantasy machine.
"Here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun..."
"Oh, I wish it could be Christmas every day..."
And in the shopping centres you will find lots of individuals rushing around trying to find "just the right present" that will "work the magic of Christmas" and produce unusual levels of happiness and good cheer.
The fantasy of Christmas will run until at least the New Year, and affect people from many different cultures other than the Christian and the former-Christian. But behind the tinsel and spray-on snow, there will be a good deal of angry conflict; hurt feelings; depression and loneliness; inappropriate guilt and shame; anxiety about how well the cooking will turn out; and about whether the 'present to end all presents' will work its magic on significant others.
More here.
Best wishes and seasons greetings to you all.
Jim
Dr Jim Byrne
ABC Coaching and Counselling Services
Email Jim Byrne here.
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