Welcome to the weekly podcast of Womenkind Collective, in this week’s podcast we talk about how to achieve a stress free Christmas. Do you stress about presents, family and cooking the perfect Christmas dinner? Well, you can worry no more, we have the top 25 tips to help you achieve a stress free Christmas.In the Book Collective we conclude Bella Mackie’s How To Kill Your Family and there’s a perfect twist to the ending of this magnificent book. In the Foodie Collective we continue this month’s theme of Easy Christmas Treats, and once again Jinty has been cooking up a storm.We talk about grief and the loss of a loved one coming up to the festive period and how to get through this difficult and challenging time.How did you get on with the WI? We ask Lou and the Collective how Jinty’s challenge from Mel Robbins is going. Grief is hard at any time throughout the year but can be especially difficult around Christmas time, Jinty discusses her grief from losing her dear dad this year and what she’s planning on doing to keep his memory firmly in the family this Christmas. Christmas can be the most stressful time of the year, so we decided to try and help you achieve a stress-free Christmas by going through the top 25 stresses most people encounter over the festive period, there’s some fun and swearing and also an underlying message of making sure you ease the pressure off yourself, we have tips from the Collective to help and they really resonate. And if all else fails you can do exactly what one of the Collective do and just drink Baileys!You can watch the Stress-Free Christmas Tips on our Womenkind Collective YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCFgmHLcdx28eco-XlkWYwUA In the Book Collective we conclude Bella Mackie’s How To Kill Your Family, and there’s a great twist at the end, could this lead onto a sequel? Bella has written the perfect narcissistic protagonist with Grace, she is an insightful and page turning author. Our new book for January is The Female Lead, volume 2, We Rise By Lifting Others by Edwina Dunn. The Foodie this month gives us easy Christmas treats and Jinty has made Polish cake from her mum’s recipe, but it’s not quite the traditional Polish cake, it’s the most delicious tiffin based cake and it’s also no-bake and vegan! Anyone can make it! The WI challenge from Jinty to Lou and the Collective is working really well, even if sometimes Lou forgets she has now added a new addition to give herself a positive comment when she’s high-fiving in the mirror, please give it a go and tell yourself how beautiful and amazing you are…it really does work! Don’t forget to join us for our Christmas Party next Sunday where we will be rounding up the year, talking to some amazing guests and drinking and eating probably far too much!The Christmas In A Nutshell is available from @spacemasks on Instagram or: https://spacemasks.com for £5 with all proceeds going to Whitstable RNLI. Jinty’s vegan Polish cake Ingredients75g vegan block, plus extra for the tin200g Orange vegan dark chocolate, roughly chopped2 tbsp golden or maple syrup200g vegan ginger nuts - or other fave vegan biscuits25g macadamia nuts50g pistachios, toasted and chopped. Tsp cinnamonTsp mixed spice75g orange choc to top Method STEP 1Lightly oil a 20cm square brownie tin with vegan block,and line the base with baking parchment. Melt the chocolate with the vegan block and syrup in the microwave in 30-second bursts until smooth and glossy.STEP 2Break the ginger nuts into small pieces in a bowl, then add the nuts. Scrape in the chocolate mixture and give everything a good mix to combine, then spoon the mixture into the tin. Use the back of the spoon to smooth out the top and press it down, then chill in the fridge for 2 hrs or until set hard. Once set, cut into 25 mini squares.You could sprinkle a dusting of icing sugar or add melted chocolate on top,set in fridge.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/womenkindcollectivepodcast/me