Christmas time, it’s meant to be filled with joy and happiness, surrounded with those that you love. The reality however, is filled with overeating, drinking too much, spending too much and stressing about it all. Here are some tips that you can incorporate into your Christmas festivities, so that you can start the new year not one step backwards.

Unrelenting soundtrack of thoughts in your head, playing over and over? Thoughts of fear? Relationships? Replaying that embarrassing moment that you had years ago? Work issues? Family? Your own health? Thinking of things, you shouldn’t have said or want to say?These endless loops of thoughts in your head, filling it up, taking you away from what’s happening in the present.