Helping the Whole Family Feel Better with Healthy Post-Christmas Routines
The holidays take a toll on us, whether good or bad. Here are ways to help the whole family feel healthy this post-Christmas week.
Allow yourself to recharge
The holidays have us up and about, whether it is our traveling friends and relatives or grocery runs at odd hours. We don’t truly account for the time spent to enjoy the holidays or to make them festive for others.
That’s why we recommend taking small naps and stealing moments to ground yourself this Christmas week. At the end of the day, you only have one body.
Schedule the handiwork
The chores, repairs, and cleanup are nothing new during the holiday season. There’s an extra layer of lethargy that adds to the dread of a pale of dishes. Getting back on track means accepting that all the work can’t be done in a single day by a single person. It also means planning tasks that you can manage.
Manage your screen time.
It is easy to get lost in the black mirrors of our mobile devices. The dopamine and chemical reward from the algorithm’s top hits. But with little constructive effort to devote ourselves to, much time is spent in repetitive cycles.
Truly, nobody is perfect, but putting down the phone, tablet, or averting your gaze from the TV screen will have a profound impact on your health.
Salvage your leftovers
Chapati, various kinds of meat, and African salad. Christmas Day is a buffet, but what happens to the buffet when the clock strikes midnight?
Leftovers are creative ingredients for the family’s next meal. If preserved well, they can pack a nutritious punch to last till the end of the post-Christmas season. Besides, there is no luxury in wasting perfectly good food.
Don’t go above and beyond
Christmas is a spiritual experience; we learn new things about the world around us and see old patterns come into play. After the festivities we are left with our thoughts, the dishes, and leftovers. The understanding of consequences is suddenly clearer.
The post-Christmas season isn’t a period of fixing things. It is a time of silent reflection and recollection. A pivotal point where we can count our decisions and plan ahead for the days to come.
The days after Christmas don’t quite feel real. They’re the door between the old and the new. It is scary, but in some ways it is also beautiful.
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