A season for reflection

Christmas can be a really difficult time of year for many people; there is the financial aspect of the season, but also the emotional aspect. Within the practice, the season can cause extra stresses with covering the rota, always a contentious issue; additional emergencies with ingestion of festive foods; and then there's the associated stress of people descending on your house and all the extra food that needs to be prepared.

Many people find the season a time for reflection, whether it be the end of the year or the start of a new one. It's an opportunity to draw a line under one year and start anew on the next. What went well this year, what didn't; do we need to put procedures in place to avoid the mistakes from last year? How can we grow as a group and as individuals? What stresses were there during the last Christmas period, how can we avoid the same happening this year?