April Daniels Hussar, SELF magazine
So, ummmm, Thanksgiving is like, here. As we get closer to the "most wonderful time of the year," we also get closer to ... the dreaded holiday travel season (dun dun DUN). It's so great to be with friends and fam, but it can such a pain to get there, right?
To make things go more smoothly for you, we asked Ari Novick, Ph.D., a certified Anger Management Professional and trainer to give us his top tips for minimizing your stress levels while en route this holiday season--no matter what crazy situation you get stuck in.
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Arrive to the Airport Early: "As simple as it sounds, having time on your side reduces the anxiety of needing to get to the gate, check luggage, and move through security," says Novick. "Give yourself a full two hours before your flight and you should be able to relax through all of it!"
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See more: Foods That Fight Belly BloatHave "menu" sex. Only 12 percent of you have sex every day. But you should try it! The more times you get it on, the better it gets. SELF's mission for you: Do it daily for a week, planning romps like a menu. "A good diet has more than one food group, and your sex life should be well-rounded, too," says sex therapist Ian Kerner, Ph.D. "Have intimate action one time; fantasy sex the next; the wild, stress-relieving kind after that." The spree will start racy thoughts racing more often, pumping you up to do it. A lot.
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You're all for your friends losing weight, meeting an awesome guy, earning a mega salary and snagging a house on the beach. As long as she doesn't do it before you do.
My first real job was at a talent agency. I sat with the other assistants in a row of cubicles. Beside me was a funny gay guy I'll call Jay, an older lady who had gone back to work when her kids graduated, and a woman I'll call Veronique, whose sole purpose in life, I believed, was to make me feel like a loser. We were all close, mostly because we were together 12 hours a day, trying to get by on our crappy salaries and eating ramen noodles at our desks for lunch. Except for Veronique, who lived with her boyfriend, The King of Wall Street. Veronique could afford sushi, Oh, and she couldn't keep weight on.
Her mother happened to be a model. Her father was a physicist. Sadly (for me), she looked like a model and had the brains of a physicist. Why, oh why, I wondered, couldn't she
