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Christmas Stresses 4: Creating The Christmas You Want

Experiencing an alternative Christmas, how to create the right kind of festive period for you and exploring what the Christmas of the future might look like.

Continuing our Advent Calendar of festive stresses that we're opening, unpicking and resolving for a happier, healthier Christmas!

This week Gillian Russell asks if your Christmas is in need of a reboot? Whether you like the traditions just as they are or whether you're in the mood for trying something completely different, today we're all about creating the kind of Christmas that you want.

Beth Kempton, founder of Do What You Love and author of Freedom Seeker, shares her experiences of having an alternative Christmas and advises on how to set out clearly what we want our Christmas to be like.

Ali Roff, Editor-At-Large of Psychologies Magazine, describes the reasons why some people have a different kind of Christmas and explains why it's important to be honest about what we want, respectful of other people's choices and open to alternative experiences.

Futurist William Higham talks about what the Christmas of the future might look like and explains how advances in technology could help create a simpler, less stressful festive period with virtual guests round the table and decorations projected onto your walls!

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28 minutes

Last on

Sat 23 Dec 2017 06:00

Broadcasts

  • Mon 18 Dec 2017 13:30
  • Sat 23 Dec 2017 06:00