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When you re far from home, the festive season can be hard. Anni Koskela and Kieran Doyle enjoying the fresh snowfall in Kajaani. Image: Kieran Doyle. More than 400,000 people living in Finland were born abroad, and many of them usually spend the holiday season back home . That s very difficult or impossible this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and that could affect foreign-born residents of Finland more than most. Reija Tuomisalo of Mental Health Finland (Mieli) says that one approach to the disrupted holiday season is to view it as more of an opportunity than a threat. Every year we see that people put too much pressure on themselves during this holiday, and what they should be like, and how they should be spent, and it’s all too much, Tuomisalo says. But this year might be an opportunity to be without those pressures and give yourself permission to have a relaxing, peaceful Christmas.

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