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Six Tips For Avoiding Holiday Burnout

Overachievers and people pleasers, this is your early warning to lower your impossibly high standards and keep them low until this JOYOUS (ugh) season is over!

Heather Havrilesky
Dec 19, 2022
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Poppies (1950) by Georgia O’Keeffe

The holidays are an intense time for overachievers and people pleasers. Because there are just so many infinite ways of screwing everything up!

I have fifty different events and tasks trapped inside my skull this morning, competing for my attention. I need to buy stocking stuffers, vacuum my house, shop for groceries, ma…

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