We’ve updated our holiday survival toolkit to give you and your employees helpful resources to get through the 2021 holiday season!
The holidays can be a time of happiness and festivity, but on the downside, they can also be super stressful with pressure around money, time, and family and work dynamics. They can tempt us to stray dangerously from our normal eating, drinking, exercise, spending, and sleep habits. Plus, we’re all still coping with the pandemic for the second year in a row, and all the related problems.
Our 2021 holiday survival toolkit is intended to help you and your staff get through the holidays. We remind our Members that your EAP is available 24-7-365 for help with any difficulties you may experience. Call for counseling or coaching to deal with grief, stress, maintaining health and fitness, coping with budgets and finances, family matters, Covid-19 stressors, and more!
Coping with Covid-19
- Safer Ways to Celebrate Holidays – CDC 2021 Covid-19 guidance
- CDC Event Planning FAQs
- How to protect kids from COVID-19 this holiday season
- 5 Ways to Safely Travel with Unvaccinated Kids This Holiday Season
- How to Host Thanksgiving with Unvaccinated Friends and Family
- ‘Are You Vaccinated?’ How to Ask Others Before Holiday Gatherings
- Preparing for the holidays? Don’t forget rapid tests for COVID-19
- Wondering about COVID-19 vaccines for children 5 to 11?
- What you need to know about the Delta Variant (Covid-19)
- The Big Question This Thanksgiving: Are You Vaccinated?
Navigating holidays at the workplace
- Holiday Ideas for the Remote Workplace
- Ten Rules to Get Through the Holidays at Work
- The do’s and don’ts of giving holiday gifts to your co-workers
- Holiday Office Gift Giving Do’s and Don’ts: A Guide for Workers to Surviving the Season
- Asking your coworkers about their holidays could be hurting them
- Workplace Party Etiquette – Don’t Be “That” Person
- 11 Tips for Surviving the Office Holiday Party
- Holiday Office Party Do’s and Don’ts
- How to Make Holiday Celebrations More Inclusive
Managing stress
- Maintaining Mental Health During the Holiday Season (and a Pandemic)
- Holidays Can Be Stressful. They Don’t Have to Stress Out Your Team.
- Coping with the super-stress season
- Seasonal Survival Tips
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.)
- Stress, depression and the holidays: Tips for coping
Managing money, finance & going green
- Holiday Budget Planner – Calculator
- Financial Wellbeing During the Holidays: 3 Tips to Avoid Money-Related Stress
- Debt “don’ts” for the holiday season
- Is Overspending a Problem for You?
- 9 Genius Tips for Saving Money During the Holidays
- 35 ways to save money and time during the holidays
- Smart Ways to Handle Holiday Credit Card Spending
- 5 Credit Card Benefits You May Not Know About
- Happy holidays! Shopping tips from the FTC
- Tips on Tipping This Holiday Season
- 12 Ways to Have an Eco Friendly Holiday
Staying healthy & well
- This Is How I Navigate a Healthy Diabetes-Friendly Diet During the Holidays
- 8 ways to hack your holiday recipes
- How Many Calories Are in Thanksgiving Dinner?
- How to enjoy the flavors of the season without derailing health
- Avoid the creeping menace of holiday weight gain!
- Healthy Eating Tips and Light Party Recipes for the Holidays
- How to Stay Active and Exercise During the Holidays
- 15 Surefire Strategies to Stay Fit From Thanksgiving to New Years
- How to fit in some fitness amid the holiday hustle
- Avoid a Holiday Health Crisis
- 10 Tips for Coping with Eating-Disorder Stress Over the Holidays
- For Those With Eating Disorders, Holidays In A Pandemic Can Create Extra Anxiety
Keeping a Sober Season
- Tips for Protecting Your Sobriety during the Holidays and Preventing Relapse
- The Holidays: Challenges and Survival Guide for Sober Alcoholics
- Al-Anon helping families through alcoholism during holidays
- 4 Health Excuses To Stay Sober At Your Holiday Party
- How to Cope with Family Holiday Events… Without Alcohol!
- Addiction during the holidays: Recovered or not, it’s important to be prepared
Family Matters
- Do’s and don’ts for surviving holiday family dynamics
- 5 Ways to Survive Your Next Family Gathering
- Spread the Spirit of Meaningful Giving This Holiday Season
- 5 tips for celebrating the holidays with a blended family
- Blended Family and Step-Parenting Tips
- 10 Tips for Caregivers During the Holidays
- Caring for an aging parent? Tips for enjoying holiday meals
- How to Handle Holiday (Military) Separations
- How to tell your family you are not coming home for the holidays
- Estranged at the Holidays? 8 Strategies to Get Through
Holidays after a divorce
- Children of Divorce List Holiday Dos and Don’ts
- Divorce and Holidays: How to Help Kids
- Holidays Are Tough After a Divorce. Here’s How I Learned to Prepare.
- Top Ten Ways to Survive the Holidays During and After Divorce
- Children, Divorce and the Holidays
- How divorced parents can help their children survive the holidays
- Planning for Seasonal Success: Holiday Tips for Parenting Apart
- Divorce and the Holidays — Putting Children First
Handling special situations
- Grief and loss throughout the holiday season
- Grief and the holidays
- Holidays After the Death of a Loved One
- Helping Someone Who’s Grieving
- Celebrating Holidays with Loved Ones in Hospice Care
- At The Holidays: Coping with Anticipatory Grief
- Coping with post-traumatic stress disorder over the holidays
- Five Things That Make Holidays Easier for Those Dealing With Mental Illness
- McLean’s Guide to Managing Mental Health Around the Holidays
- Twelve Tips for Helping Individuals with Autism Have a Happy Holiday Season
- 16 Tips for Enjoying the Holidays With an Autistic Child
- Holiday Hints for Alzheimer’s Caregivers
- Coping with Loneliness During the Holidays
Keeping safe
- Thanksgiving Home Fire Safety
- Top 12 Holiday Decorating Safety Tips
- 2 tips for safer holiday home decorating
- W.A.T.C.H. Toy Safety
- Food Safety
- Keep Food Poisoning Off the Menu
- ‘Tis the season: Party hosts should be aware of liability issues
- Have a happy New Year: Plan to party safely
- Holiday Safety Tips for Your Pets
Maintaining cyber security & avoiding scams
- Don’t Let a Scam Derail Your Holiday Travel
- 15 Tips for Safe Holiday Online Shopping
- Stay Safe from Online Threats When Holiday Shopping
- 12 Scams of the Holidays
- Don’t let email scams hijack your holiday!
- 5 Holiday Scams to Avoid
- Pass It On – FTC Info for consumers on common scams and fraud
- Don’t Lose Money on PrePaid Debit Cards
Giving charitable gifts and donations
- American Red Cross – Holiday Gift Giving Catalog
- Candid (formerly The Foundation Center and GuideStar)
- Better Business Bureau’s Wise Giving Alliance
- Charity Navigator Holiday Giving Guide
- Avoid Charity Fraud