{"id":11221,"date":"2016-12-20T09:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T09:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=11221"},"modified":"2016-12-20T09:47:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T09:47:06","slug":"living-with-mecfs-holiday-survival-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/living-with-mecfs-holiday-survival-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with ME\/CFS holiday survival guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bateman Horne Center<\/strong> article, by Leigh Reynolds, 13 Dec 2016: <a href=\"https:\/\/batemanhornecenter.org\/holiday-survival\/\" target=\"_blank\">Holiday Survival Guide<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Living with ME\/CFS and FM changes most everything, including how we celebrate the holidays. Perhaps one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, or a loved one, is a \u2018free pass\u2019 on the guilt you may be tempted take on when you are unable to do it all. We all want a happy and peaceful holiday season; celebrating within the boundaries of your illness can help make that a reality. Sometimes simply discussing your needs and expectations with family and friends can make a big difference.<\/p>\n<p>The article goes on to discuss:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Focus on the meaning of the holiday<\/li>\n<li>Challenge traditions, create new ones<\/li>\n<li>Give yourself the gift of self-care<\/li>\n<li>Allow yourself to receive<\/li>\n<li>Set boundaries<\/li>\n<li>Coping with unresolved family\/friend problems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/batemanhornecenter.org\/holiday-survival\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bateman Horne Center article, by Leigh Reynolds, 13 Dec 2016: Holiday Survival Guide Living with ME\/CFS and FM changes most everything, including how we celebrate the holidays. Perhaps one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, or a loved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/living-with-mecfs-holiday-survival-guide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[2160,3376,3375],"class_list":["post-11221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bateman-horne-center","tag-christmas","tag-leigh-reynolds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-2UZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11232,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11221\/revisions\/11232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}