Vol. 18, Issue 4, Nov. 24, 2020

Home for the Holidays takes on a whole new meaning this year, for this season it means staying home for the holidays instead of going home for the holidays. As companies and employees continue to deal with working from home, home schooling, and all the other pressures the pandemic has laid on us, clients are asking for programs on how to help their people get through the holidays.

One of the benefits of the virtual programs is that they can be set up in a pretty short time frame, so in lieu of the holiday party you won’t be having this year, give us a call to set up a virtual pick-me-up for your group. You will letting them know that you care about their well being and give them the fuel to make it happen. Here are a couple of ideas to get you started.

“Tis the Season to Stay Sane and Sparkle!”

by Lois Barth

Let’s be real! It’s been an unprecedented year where days, weeks, and months have mushed together like that three-month-old meatloaf in the back of your fridge, the one that now looks more like a science experiment than what was once your dinner. What month are we in? Seventeen?

From morning to night we’ve had to RE-ZOOM some semblance of our lives while balancing work, home life, and business, some of us doing it with barking dogs and screaming children in the background, others with screaming dogs and barking children! Not easy, and that’s an understatement!

And just as our yoga pants (By the way, is anyone really doing yoga?) have been stretched beyond recognition, so too, have we all felt stretched personally beyond our limits, having to do more with less, during this period of seismic change and uncertainty.

And yet history is living proof that many of our greatest ideas and innovations have come from our darkest struggles. Today is no different. What I have found to be true, that makes that possible, is our innate ability as humans to be resilient. It’s in all of us!

So come join this creative, upbeat (yes I did say upbeat!) and interactive virtual program, “Tis the Season to Stay Sane and Sparkle!” In it, Lois Barth, Human Development Expert, Motivational Speaker, Coach, and Author, will help your audience or staff deal with stress, find the funny (it’s always there), and develop resilience while integrating personal and professional obligations and responsibilities.

What would finishing 2020 strong look like for you? Invite Lois to your party and find playful, practical and powerful ways to do just that! She’ll get your team connecting, laughing, learning, and remembering to SPARKLE!

To learn more about Lois and see her preview video, click here:

 

How to have less stress and more health this holiday [pandemic!] season!

from Zonya Foco, RDN 

From holiday treats to shopping stress to no time for exercise, the holidays put a monkey wrench into healthy eating and exercising even in normal times. Add in the pandemic this year, and stress is on overload. The good news is, this year can be unprecedented in a new and positive way!

One way is to present a virtual program by Zonya Foco, RDN, best-selling author and host of public television’s “Zonya’s Health Bites.” Zonya offers a live (and guaranteed lively) conversation from her home kitchen helping you and your attendees discover a new 2020 holiday survival plan. Your audience will come away with shopping cheats, exercise sneaks, and healthy treats (including a solution to the cookie exchange dilemma), that will have them – and you — ringing in the new year feeling smug instead of snug.  

Your Recipe for a Healthy and Stress-Free Holiday Season 

America’s Nutrition Leader, Zonya Foco, RDN. presents via Zoom – direct from her amazing home kitchen – some of your soon-to-be all-time favorite recipes for a healthy and oh-so-delicious holiday. And she explains the healthy thinking that infuses them with life. (If you have never heard Zonya explain why broccoli is healthy, you’ve missed out on something both funny and unforgettable.)

She presents straight from her inspiring original cook books, Lickety-Split and Eat REAL. They have been dubbed “the fastest way to healthy.” And never fear, everything she shows will be SUPER EASY! What a way to show appreciation for your isolated or overworked staff for the holidays!

HOLIDAY RECIPE OFFER:

Zonya is offering our readers an extra treat this year: 20 delicious and healthy holiday recipes — absolutely free — To get your copy, clickhere Personally, I (Barbara) have been making some of these recipes for years, like Surprise Pumpkin Pie, and Broccoli Salad with Dried Cranberries. By now they are mainstays in my traditional holiday recipe collection. Your people will love them, too, I predict. Mine do.

 

SWEET MEMORIES

As I prepare for this year’s un-Thanksgiving celebration, I am savoring the happy memories of Thanksgivings past — like last year when we had both the Colorado and California crews here — 13 people in all for five days. That entailed a LOT of shopping and prepping. I hope I didn’t complain too much then because next time I get to do that, I will remember this year — the year I didn’t get to do any of that – and be happy that I can shop and prep and co-create another meaningful family gathering. 

Last year, in order to keep little ones and older ones alike occupied while things were going on in the kitchen, I assembled things to make a Gratitude Tree — and to my delight, all ages really got into it!

I secured a sturdy rhododendron skeleton branch in a pot and used my cookie cutter leaf shapes to make construction paper leaves to write on. I remember noticing when I dis-assembled it, that most of the gratitudes were for people (and pets) — not things.  I tucked them away in a zip lock bag, and I’m glad I did because I’ll be getting them out this week to savor my memories from last year — I can almost smell the turkey roasting, and hear their precious voices. 

One last observation to leave you with this holiday during a pandemic season —

“The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

Until next time, take care of yourself for your well being, and those you love, and WEAR A MASK.

Yours truly,

Barbara

 

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