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Like a seasonal wardrobe consultant, Kicking Your Holiday Stress Habits helps readers weed out what's worth keeping and what needs tossing during the holidays. Through honest discussions and thought-provoking questionnaires, authors Nancy Loving Tubesing and Donald Tubesing show readers how to avoid the holiday trappings and cherish the treasures; for example, giving presents can be a trap (overspending, trying to please others through gifts) or a treasure (a creative act of love and generosity), depending on how you frame the gesture. They also offer a sure-fire way to feel the longed-for "holiday spirit." Instead of waiting for it to enter your being by a certain point in time, they offer suggestions for paying "special attention to your own spirit."
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
obvious & odd,
By chad-roscoe "chad-roscoe" (venice, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kicking Your Holiday Stress Habits (Paperback)
Well, this is a tiny little book, about 3" x 2". It goes from page to page, listing a bad thing about "holidays" (although it seems obvious almost immediately that by holidays they mean Christmas) on one page, and a good thing on the facing page.The only thing is, the things they list from page to page were, to me, obvious, and not very instructional. Then, at times, there are places where you are to answer a question they've posed by writing a little list in the book. Each time they do this, they start the list for you, rather than just having a "for example" at the end of the question, which is how you can tell it's "about" Christmas, as their lists usually relate to that holiday. It turned me off that they began the list each time, as their likes, thoughts, etc., did not match mine, but if I continued it felt as if they were, by default, part of my list, i.e. intrusive. Is this book to be about me, or the Tubesings? And I was particularily bothered by their "starter" list to answer the question, "As you think over the past year: What experiences are particularly memorable?" Their first answer? "Mike's suicide." Now, I'm sure everyone out there wants to contemplate suicide at Christmas. Not exactly, right? Besides, knowing someone who was a successful suicide, I really don't like having the memory randomly thrust upon me by a book that should be discussing de-stressing. And, as I said, were I to fill in my own list there,as I'm clearly supposed to, their friend/realtive Mike's suicide would become a default part of my list. The back cover states that, "This book is a holiday gift to you-" Some holiday gift. I think the book is a gimmick-ie little book, and not really valuable for helping re-invent the holidays. But, I'm sure the Tubesings won't mind a review such as this, as, towards the end of the book, they gave me "permission to feel."
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