As the holiday season ramps up, experts share ways of managing your stress levels

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- People lined up extracurricular of Target successful River Park aboriginal Friday morning. Not lone looking to store but to snag the champion deals.

"I truly request caller AirPods. The AirPods are connected sale," said Destiny Real of Fresno. "The Beats headphones are connected sale. I'm besides looking for the Ninja slushie machine."

It's a motion that the holidays are present here. While this should beryllium a cheerful time, it tin besides beryllium stressful.

"This tin besides beryllium a clip of truly precocious expectations," said Coraline Robinson, a licensed Family and Marriage Therapist with Balance Treatment Center. "When we person precocious expectations, what happens? Well, they tin lone spell down, right?"

The American Psychiatric Association says that past year, 28% of Americans experienced much holiday-related stress. Top stressors included acquisition buying, household dynamics, and grief.

Experts accidental mounting boundaries and taking breaks tin help.

"Taking a fewer heavy breaths, uncovering a backstage room," said Robinson, "It's truly important erstwhile we're nether accent with our families."

Robinson says a bully workout tin besides calm the nerves, which tin assistance earlier a large gathering.

"We privation to depress our tense systems," said Robinson. "We privation to ramp it up truthful precocious with workout that by the clip we spell into the lawsuit with our household oregon friends, we're calm, we're tired, and our tense strategy is benignant of worn out."

Robinson adds that watching what we devour and portion tin assistance with our accent levels, which includes monitoring our intoxicant and sweetener intake.

When it comes to vacation spending stress, Robinson has this advice.

"There's going to beryllium a batch of pushing, marketing, antithetic things online close now," said Robinson. "It's bully to instrumentality a interruption and suffer yourself successful an audiobook, successful a podcast."

Experts accidental it's good to instrumentality a measurement backmost from the vacation hustle and to springiness yourself immoderate grace.

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