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In this episode Dr Skelton discusses Stress and the Holidays.  While stress is increased in the Holiday season it is present with us all year long and the techniques he recommends can help at any time and in any situation to help give you the runway to deal with your Cousin Eddie.

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Stress and the Holidays

[00:00:00] Welcome to the Living Life Well Show, the intersection of God's Word, today's science, and healthy living with common sense application, all based on the truth of the Word of God. I'm your host, Dr. Jon Skelton. Now let's get straight to the truth.

Welcome to the living life. Well show. I am so glad you're here. And today we're going to talk about stress and the holiday, something nobody ever experiences, right. Well, I know for me personally, , stress is a big deal. , working as an ER doctor every day, my day is different. Probably like a lot [00:01:00] of years. And my world, I go into my work day knowing. I don't know what I'm going to see or how much of it I'm going to see. Everything is unscheduled.

Right? And so whether it is somebody coming in with a stubbed toe or heart attack, a stroke. , or anything in between. I don't know what's coming in that day. I don't know whether I'm going to need band-aids or whether I'm going to need chest tubes. What I do know is I can anticipate. That I'm going to be stressed at some point during the day. And that stress is inevitable, right?

It happens every single day. And so stress in the holidays, unfortunately go hand in hand quite often. And whether it's the stress of travel, the stress of. [00:02:00] Family the stress of staying up late, not sleeping in your own bed or having company in a, whatever that is, or even just the preparations of getting ready to have the holiday. , there's always going to be stressed.

so what I want to do is I want to talk about how we can handle stress and the holiday. So. The number one thing is, Recognize it, recognize that it's inevitable. Even if you don't have a cousin, Eddie in your life, something is going to go, not exactly the way you want it to.

So stress is inevitable. So, so number one, you want to recognize that it's going to happen? Anticipate it. I know when I'm working in the ER, there's something that is going to happen. That's unexpected. That's. What stress is right. So number two. I want you to be grateful. Not thankful. [00:03:00] Okay, so there's a subtle difference.

So Merriam Webster's online dictionary describes thankful as the consciousness. Of benefit received expressive of thanks. Well, pleased. Grateful sound somewhat similar, but it's a little bit different. Appreciative. Of benefits received. You see, it's not just conscious of the benefit received. It is appreciative of the benefits received.

This is kind of the difference between, , somebody, , passing you the salt and you saying thanks. And somebody complimenting you and really. , complimenting you very specifically and not out of a, , rote kind of, , Societal norm. And so you realize that, and you're appreciative of that. It goes on to say that it's expressing [00:04:00] gratitude or fording p