The holidays and the pandemic can be a painful combination. Google “holidays and depression,” and you get 4.5 million hits. I have not read them all. Many people feel that the holidays increase stress and anxiety, and that and the fact that it’s even harder to get everything done during the holidays may make us feel like failures. Now add the stress of ongoing COVID concerns and the isolation many of us have experienced over the past 2 years, and you have a recipe for disaster.