Although everyone keeps talking about holiday depression, hospital admissions for depression actually go down in December. February and March are high-risk months, probably for biological reasons,

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

The truth is that stress goes up because women add all their new roles to their old roles without crossing anything off their list,

All of us experience holiday stress. That's normal. And everybody gets some mild depression and days when you feel down. They come and go.

The story broke down barriers that people had about health and diabetes. When talking to children and beginning with the story and then talking about diabetes, we found that the children listened intently. They were eager to take the information back to their parents and talk about what they had learned in school that day.