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Despite being dubbed as the most wonderful time of year, the holiday season is infamous for triggering feelings of sadness in many individuals known as the holiday blues. Not to be confused with clinical depression, the holiday blues are characterized by increased but temporary feelings of sadness that last from November to December.
In a survey conducted by the National Alliance on Mental Health, 64 percent of participants reported that they are affected by the holiday blues. Twenty-four percent of respondents reported that they are affected significantly.
The holiday blues can look different from one person to the next, people often report experiencing feelings of dread, anxiety, and sorrow during the holiday season. For some, the previous loss of a loved one can make the holidays particularly difficult. Others find that increased financial pressure or anticipated conflict with loved ones at family gatherings is what causes the most duress. Here are 10 ways to beat the Holiday blues before they take over.
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While the holidays generally symbolize an end-of-year winding down period, it is during this time of year when people find themselves overextended the most. Many companies require employees to partake in end-of-year tasks and performance evaluations. Additionally, people often have extra added responsibilities such as holiday shopping, hosting out-of-town relatives, and preparing festive meals. In the midst of all of this craziness, it’s important to rest.
Source: Luis Alvarez / Getty
Despite being dubbed as the most wonderful time of year, the holiday season is infamous for triggering feelings of sadness in many individuals known as the holiday blues. Not to be confused with clinical depression, the holiday blues are characterized by increased but temporary feelings of sadness that last from November to December.
In a survey conducted by the National Alliance on Mental Health, 64 percent of participants reported that they are affected by the holiday blues. Twenty-four percent of respondents reported that they are affected significantly.
The holiday blues can look different from one person to the next, people often report experiencing feelings of dread, anxiety, and sorrow during the holiday season. For some, the previous loss of a loved one can make the holidays particularly difficult. Others find that increased financial pressure or anticipated conflict with loved ones at family gatherings is what causes the most duress. Here are 10 ways to beat the Holiday blues before they take over.
Rest
While the holidays generally symbolize an end-of-year winding down period, it is during this time of year when people find themselves overextended the most. Many companies require employees to partake in end-of-year tasks and performance evaluations. Additionally, people often have extra added responsibilities such as holiday shopping, hosting out-of-town relatives, and preparing festive meals. In the midst of all of this craziness, it’s important to rest.
Wow...was this a tough year. And now after this election cycle, perhaps the zeitgeist will pivot toward a different, if not inclusive direction. Welcome to another umpteenth installment from the Afronerd Radio engine, broadcasting through the BTalk 100 platform. It's Grindhouse Sunday, people! Check us out this afternoon at 6pm eastern with your steadfast AFROnerdist hosts discussing the following issues: well it's official (mostly) that this nation's president and vice-president elects are indeed, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, respectively. We give you our first impressions and predictions for this landmark presidency and how it might play out for folks of color and beyond; noted filmmaker and friend of the show, Hilton Ruiz stops by to discuss the latest goings in his Zombie with a Shotgun universe; with a controversial election going on, I guess unexplainable interplanetary radio waves don't rate, huh?; legendary comedian and social commenter, Dave Chappelle made another appearance on SNL-first in '16 at the beginning of the Trump regime and now at its close....interesting;
It is now canonical that the X-Men character, Kitty Pryde has come out as bisexual, oh and least we forget, DC's upcoming future Flash is non-binary-my are these interesting times in comic book publishing. Star Trek: Discovery, too, has introduced a non-binary character; it seems that actor, Stephen Amell is none too pleased about the rebranding of his vaunted "Arrowverse" to the CWverse; iconic Star Wars actor, Mark Hamill shared a pretty funny, if not apropos meme highlighting our recent election:
Not only is Netflix raising their prices but they're also tinkering with conventional TV like scheduled programming; and lastly, our thoughts concerning actress, Ann Hathaway's apology to the disabled community for The Witches reboot and then there's Johnny Depp's loss in the UK courts. Call us LIVE at 508-645-0100.
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Joy Bryant | Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for SCAD aTVfest 2020 By Keyaira Kelly ·November 25, 2020November 25, 2020
Actress Joy Bryant periodically pulls from a deck of goddess cards she keeps on her desk while filming her show For Life in New York City. Unlike traditional tarot cards, goddess cards feature feminine archetypes paired with divine messages to offer guidance for the moment. Bryant pulled a card featuring Yhi, an Australian aboriginal sun goddess, during her interview about season two of the ABC series.
“Yhi illuminates your path with her rays and brings clarity as she shows you what you need to know,” Bryant told ESSENCE.
For over two decades, Bryant has lit her ownaria-label="Beyoncé (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.essence.com/entertainment/black-women-nominations-2021-grammy-awards/" target="_blank">Beyoncé, and played opposite of 50 Cent in Get Rich Or Die Tryin‘. She reunites with 50 fifteen years later as “Marie” in the rapper’s latest TV drama. Bryant stars as the estranged wife of Aaron Wallace (played by Nicholas Pinnock), a wrongly convicted prisoner who becomes a lawyer in a fight to overturn his life sentence.
JOY BRYANT and NICHOLAS PINNOCK in ABC’s FOR LIFE | PHOTO CREDIT: ABCWhile the former model has tackled a variety of film and TV jobs, her role as Marie gave her the opportunity to view her upbringing from a different vantage point. Raised by her grandmother Lorraine after her mother gave birth to her at just 15 years old, Bryant feels close to her family’s legacy as she depicts a grandma on-screen herself.
“During the pilot, I realized, ‘Oh my God, [Marie]’s the grandmother,’” said Bryant.
The leading lady now understands her grandmother’s profound sacrifice in a deeper way. To make things more synchronous, the actress is 46—which is the same age her grandmother was when she was born.
Joy Bryant attends the SCAD aTVfest 2020 – “For Life” on February 27, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. | Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for SCAD aTVfest 2020“She could have given me up for adoption, and she didn’t. I come from a poor family in the Bronx; resources were slim to none. And she didn’t have to do that. But she did.” she told ESSENCE. “Even though I don’t have children, I’m thinking of me taking on that responsibility— just when you think you did your job, there’s another job to do.”
While empathizing with her grandmother, Bryant also approaches her current role with a sense of catharsis to symbolically reconcile the unhealthy relationship she had with her birth mom.
“With my mother, we did not have a great relationship. And I’ve put a lot of time into
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And so the Holiday festivities (including Black Friday and Cyber Monday) have officially started this week, AFROnerdists! We had a brief preemption this past Sunday but we hope you enjoyed our Grindhouse rebroadcast during our brief respite. Ok...so let's get up, get into it and get involved with the latest Pre-Thanksgiving Day edition of Afronerd Radio's Mid Week in Review airing this Wednesday at 8pm EST. The topics to be discussed: before there was a POTUS known as Barack Obama, history was made almost twenty years previously with the election of New York City's first black mayor, the honorable David Dinkins who passed away this week at the age of 93; S4 will reportedly be Black Lightning's last.....yet, the Painkiller character may be getting a spinoff; latest reports assert that the Black Panther sequel starts filming July '21 and we have our thoughts (perhaps it will work out according to Dburt's previous musings); Netflix concedes to comedian, Dave Chappelle's wishes by cancelling the streaming of his early aughts Chappelle Show; thoughts about Ta Nehisi Coates' book to fil translation of Between the World and Me:
Dburt rediscovers anime via a fair share of binge watching; a second wave of COVID-19 may mean that the death knell for American theaters; Danny Phantom trended on Twitter and not for the reason fans would have prefered-perhaps it's time for black cosplayers to hone in more acutely with POC characters and true cultural ownership; lastly, the Bleeding Cool site lends focus on the idea of nostalgia and allegedly not being able to go home again.....enter Hulu's Animaniacs revival.
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