Feeling seasonally stressed? Trigger these feel-good chemicals to get your fizz back.
It’s not easy to get your tinsel ON when you’re working hard to wrap up the year (see what we did there?). Pressurised to finish projects and have fun with colleagues and family alike, it’s little wonder if your jingle is starting to get a bit…jangly.
Burnt out by work, I can become a nightmare before Christmas – scouring the late-night shops for THE PERFECT trifle sponge, or obsessing over the droop in our home-made paper chains (‘Step away from the tape measure, Dad!’) Unfortunately my stress is catching: My teenage daughter’s ‘most-played’ song of last December? ‘All I want for Christmas is New Year’s Eve’ by a band called…Hurts. (It’s a banger by the way).
This year I’ve decided to swap mulled wine for ‘happy hormones’, and try some (brain) chemistry experiments to help me chill out…and cheer up. If you want to bring the happy to your holiday, why not give them a go?