A friend repeated to me the other day a saying that has particular application to families and the holidays:  ‘You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your family’.  So true.  What is it about the holidays that can cause so much stress and strain at a time of the year when we should be celebrating with the special people in our lives? 

In this handy article, Dr. Pam Monday, the Relationship Repair expert, shares some ingenious ways to handle some of the trying dynamics that take place when holidays, families and dysfunction collide.