The "Post-Visit Worry": How to Find Peace After You’ve Gone Home

The holidays are over. The decorations are being packed away, the leftovers are gone, and you are back in your own routine.

But for many adult children of aging parents, the drive home this year felt a little different.

Maybe it was quiet in the car. Maybe you felt a heavy "pit" in your stomach that you couldn’t quite explain. You spent days or weeks with your parents, and for the first time in a while, you really saw them.

And now that you aren’t there, the worry is keeping you up at night.