All Is Calmish: How to Feel Less Frantic and More Festive During the Holidays
Broadleaf, 2025
Agent: Jill Marr
Stop forcing holiday cheer and start embracing the season in a way that truly resonates with you. Discover simple, daily strategies for cultivating peace, balance, and genuine joy as you navigate the holidays with grace.
Merry and bright? Yeah, right. During the holidays, many of us are anything but cheerful. Thanksgiving, Diwali, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year's often make us frazzled and frantic. Stressed and stretched. Distressed and depressed.
From psychotherapist Niro Feliciano, author of This Book Won't Make You Happy and frequent TODAY show contributor, comes a book to help you move beyond holiday pressures and maintain perspective when it matters most. All Is Calmish dispenses a therapist's strategies for surviving the season. As a mother of four and sought-after expert on mental health, Feliciano sees our valiant attempts to be happy and create a magical holiday. Meanwhile we are actually exhausted and anxious from managing family drama, loneliness, grief, crazy schedules, and overwhelming debt. The truth is, the holidays can be the hardest time of the year. But with Feliciano's help, they don't have to be.
In thirty-one short chapters, Feliciano gives us daily prompts and rituals rooted in research, brain science, and the wisdom of spiritual traditions, to help us set boundaries, create meaningful connections, start new traditions, and manage the season with greater ease.
While the holidays may not be perfect, All Is Calmish reminds us that with intention and grace, we can still make them meaningful and memorable, finding our way to wholeness and well-being--and maybe even something that feels a bit like calm.
Accolades:
"Niro Feliciano gets it—our stress, our striving, our deep desire to make the holidays meaningful without losing ourselves in the process.?All is Calmish?is the kind of book that takes your hand, reminds you to?exhale and gently leads you back to perspective. With wisdom, honesty, and heart, Niro walks with us toward a season that feels lighter, freer, and true to who we are." --Julie Lythcott-Haims, New York Times bestselling author of How to Raise an Adult, Real American and Your Turn: How to Be an Adult
"Niro is a voice I trust completely when it comes to my life and relationships. I’m so thankful this book is in the world so others can be impacted by what she has to say." -Rachel Cruze, #1?New York Times?bestselling author, podcast host and financial expert
All Is Calmish?is the guide we all need to find peace in the midst of the holiday madness, no matter what life throws our way. This is the book you will want year round, but especially for the holidays!—Tamsen Fadal Journalist, Podcaster, and NYTimes Bestselling Author of?How To Menopause
“With warmth, wisdom, and a voice that feels like a trusted friend, Niro Feliciano reminds us that the holidays don’t have to be perfect to be meaningful.?All is Calmish?offers the grace and guidance we need to embrace the season with more ease and less stress.” – Craig Melvin, Co-Host of NBC’s The Today Show
"Anytime Niro speaks, we listen. Whether it’s parenting, family dynamics or social interactions at home or at work, Niro’s advice is always spot on, practical and actionable. Her book is full of real life holiday scenarios and solutions. A practical survival guide and helpful read!" --Vicky Nguyen, co-host of NBC News Now and Bestselling Author of Boat Baby.
"Although the holidays are intended to be a time of meaningful connection and enjoyment, they can be full of stress and pressure. What if it could be different? What if you had a wise, steady, trusted guide to help you find your way to something more peaceful and hopeful? You are holding a roadmap, written by a gifted clinician and mother of four, who will feel like your new best friend. This should be a required read for every one of us before the holidays arrive each year." --David Thomas, therapist, best-selling author of Raising Emotionally Strong Boys, and cohost of the Raising Boys and Girls Podcast
"As a therapist who has worked with kids and families for three decades, I can say unequivocally that the holidays are one of the most stressful seasons of life for us all. Parents, kids, grandparents, aunts and uncles, humans…none of us are exempt. The time with the most pressure to be happy and connected often serves as a microscope for all that’s not. But, it doesn’t have to be. Thanks to the wisdom of my dear friend, Niro Feliciano, we can be honest about all that the holidays are—and are not. We can be present. We can participate in a true sense of wonder. We can reconnect to a place of hope. And we can find our own version of calm-ish. This book will help you discover how." -Sissy Goff, LPC-MHSP, therapist, best-selling author of The Worry-Free Parent, and co-host of the Raising Boys and Girls podcast
"Niro Feliciano is the real deal—wise, compassionate, and no-nonsense when it comes to helping you let go of stress and overwhelm.?All is Calmish?is like having a therapist and a best friend reminding you to set boundaries, drop the guilt, and actually enjoy the holiday season. If you’re done feeling drained by the holidays, this book is a must-read for finding balance and peace and reclaiming your joy!" --Terri Cole, psychotherapist, author, podcast host
“Some people just radiate calm—and Niro Feliciano is one of them! Now, she’s letting us in on her secret to letting peace and joy reinvigorate a busy home. Holiday stress has met its match, and I’m so thankful for this powerful guide written with the wisdom of an expert yet the tender heart of a best friend.”--Kari Kampakis, best-selling author of?Love Her Well?and?Yours, Not Hers, and host of the Girl Mom Podcast
"All is Calmish is filled with equal parts wisdom and warmth. I quickly devoured this read about how to enjoy the special moments we spend so much time preparing for. Feliciano has a knack for weaving together personal insights, professional expertise, and compelling narratives. Although this book is perfect for the holidays, I know I'll be recommending it throughout the year!--Saumya Dave, psychiatrist and author of The Guilt Pill