Stress-Free Holiday: Psychologist Michelle Callahan Discusses How to Have a Healthy Holiday Today

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Event Date(s): 11/27/2006 | Event Location(s): Today New York Studio | Description: 08:20:08 (ej=1:21) CLIP: Letterbox clip from movie"Christmas With the Kranks" featuring actress Jamie Lee Curtis. GFX: In an interview unidentified woman #1 says"I think Christmas is always stressful for the woman, because of all of the decorating, the shopping, the cooking, everything falls on her." GFX: In an interview unidentified man #1 says"I get stressed over the holidays because you've got to buy presents for so many people and the money just sort of adds up." CLIP: Letterbox clip from movie"Jingle All the Way" featuring actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad. GFX: In an interview unidentified man #2 says"There's often the traffic that is killer. I don't like going into traffic. It stresses me out." CLIP: Letterbox clip from movie"Trains, Planes and Automobiles" featuring actor Steve Martin. GFX: In an interview unidentified woman #2 says"The shopping and just getting everything ready for family events can be extremely stressful, but a lot of fun. You know, we enjoy it." CLIP: Letterbox clip from movie"The Family Stone" featuring actresses Sarah Jessica Parker, Diane Keaton and Rachel McAdams. GFX: In an interview unidentified woman #3 says"The thing that causes me stress about the holidays is the business of all the shops, all the people." CLIP: Letterbox clip from movie"Jingle All the Way" featuring Schwarzenegger and Sinbad. In a studio interview with Holt, psychologist and a life coach Michelle Callahan says a lot of folks lose the joy because they're so stressed out about trying to accomplish so little--so much in so little time, says there are people who are not into the holidays and they get dragged along and that causes stresses for them, says if you can put a focus on helping others, it's a great way of keeping the focus off of worrying about your finances, says caring for other people helps you keep a balance in there, says it's so important at the holidays to just try to hold down some of the madness that you might normally want to get into, says if people are picking fights with you, you've got to really push back from the table, walk away, take the higher ground, and resist the urge to just jump in and bite someone's head off, and says it's important to set a budget, to set a limit on clean, decorating, cooking and gift-giving. GFX: Supers"Stress-Free Holiday: Find a Stress Reliever and Stick to It; Try to Volunteer, Workout, Read, Call Friends; Keep Family Happy: Don't Rehash Problems at Dinner Table; Budget: Don't Promise Children More Than You Can Afford; Laugh: This Madness Is Our Own Creation; Set Limits: On Cleaning, Decorating, Cooking, Gift-Giving".