Read our posts about Christmas

13Dec

Why Christmas Makes Me Really Anxious

Leanne Brookes

anxiety, Christmas, selfcare, society

Mind

Christmas isn't so merry for everyone - one girl shares her personal story of why the time of year makes her so anxious.
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12Dec

Should We Embrace Excess at Christmas?

Ros Coward

Christmas, society

Soul

There are only 12 shopping days before Christmas, but I wonder if it’s time we all called time on the mad rush of thoughtless consumerism that seems to have overtaken the season. Confronted with heaps of packaged gifts, and adverts encouraging us to ‘buy , buy , buy’, the expressions that come to my mind as Christmas approaches are not ‘good cheer’ and 'merriness’ but   ‘enough’ and, ‘too much’. Before the Christmas turkey has even hit the table I’ve lost my appetite, overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of stuff. Yet these feelings aren’t straightforward....
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24Dec

A Jewish Family Christmas

Claudine Levy

Christmas, family

Relationships

Going away to a secluded part of the Norfolk countryside for a week, with 12 members of your family, ranging from in age from nine to 90, may strike fear into the hearts of most normal folk. And yet, my family has insisted on making this a sadistic tradition for the past three years. I’m currently writing this amidst a storm of testosterone over a heated game of Risk. Family reputation is on the line here. And I find myself reluctantly pulled into conversations about football, as the only younger woman in a family of men: 3 male cousins, 2  brothers, and me. In the...
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20Dec

CULTURE TIP: Christmas Films

Welldoing

Christmas, family, films

Soul

The pick of the Christmas film on DVD or TV
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16Dec

How to do Christmas Lunch, Without Crying

Margot Henderson

Christmas, family, recipes

Relationships

Chef and cookery book writer Margot Henderson on how to cope with cooking for families at Christmas
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