Christmas Eve wisdom for surviving tomorrow

Happy Christmas Eve everyone.  In this shorter instalment of ‘surviving the festive season’ series I’m here to give you some festive cheer and some sensible tips for surviving tomorrow.  Whether you’re chief present giver, head chef or in charge of keeping the children entertained whilst others get on with making the day run smoothly this post has something for everyone.

I know that from the minute the house wakes on Christmas Day to the minute we go to bed that night it can be go, go, go and tensions can run high – especially when families get together and spend protracted periods of time in each other’s company.  It’s common to find yourself reverting back to stroppy teenage behaviour too easily when Aunty Gladys asks again why you don’t have a ‘lovely boyfriend’ or Uncle Bob makes a snide comment about vegan diets.  So how do you deal with it?

Easy ways to look after your gut health

As you guys know, the health and wellbeing sector is always going through different phases trying to find the latest superfood we should be eating for miraculous results to our health.  Now, I don’t buy in to the ‘one food to cure them all’ fads but I do believe in putting as much goodness in to our bodies as possible.  This means eating a wide range of fruits and veggies as standard but it also means taking care of our bodies in other ways too.

One of the best things we can do for ourselves is to look after our guts and our gut health.  I know that gut health and the word probiotics are everywhere at the moment but unlike a lot of the fads out there (birch water I’m looking at you), there is actually something in this.