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How to Manage Holiday Stress

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KQED

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The holidays can bring joy but also immense stress, as we host complicated family gatherings or worry about affording gifts or long for loved ones who have passed. But stress doesn’t have to dampen the spirit of the season. UCSF psychiatry professor Elissa Epel has studied stress, its effects and how to turn a stressful life into one of regenerative joy. We’ll talk with Epel about her new book “The Stress Prescription” and get tips on managing stress, especially during the holidays. Guests: Elissa Epel, professor and vice chair, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF; author, "The Stress Prescription." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In many ways, we are surrounded by stress. Everything from COVID to jobs and money pressure,

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the drought, climate change, they all contribute to stress. And from COVID to jobs and money pressure, the drought, climate change, they all

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contribute to stress. And for many, no time is more stressful than right now, the winter

1:17.6

holidays. UCSF psychiatry professor, Alyssa Epple, has studied stress and its impact on our health,

1:24.8

and her new book, The Stress Prescription, outlines ways to find contentment

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and joy in the midst of stress and uncertainty that fills our lives every day. She joins us for

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the hour, and as always, we want to hear from you, who or what stress you out. Dealing with

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stress. That's next on Forum.

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This is Forum. I'm Scott Schaefer in Fermina Kim. Well, for a lot of us, the holidays are a time where stress goes through the roof, whether it's pressure to be social and by presence or just deal with difficult family members.

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