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The festive season often comes with beautiful expectations of togetherness, but it can also bring complex family dynamics, blurred boundaries, and pressure to say yes to everything. This year, remember: celebrating well doesn't mean celebrating without limits. It's okay to: • Leave the gathering early when you need space • Say no to events that drain you • Set loving boundaries with family members • Choose one glass of wine instead of three • Skip the second serving when you'

When did grief become something to fix? 🕊️ In our modern world, we've increasingly medicalized death and the grieving process—treating loss as a problem to solve rather than a profound human experience to move through. Grief isn't a disorder. It's not something that follows a neat timeline or checklist of stages. It's messy, non-linear, and deeply personal. Yet we often feel pressure to "get over it," to return to productivity, to medicate our pain away rather than sit with

Our brains love simplicity. They want clear answers: good or bad, right or wrong, success or failure. But life is rarely that simple. Black-and-white thinking (also called all-or-nothing thinking) splits everything into extremes: • "I made a mistake, so I'm a complete failure" • "They hurt me, so they're a terrible person" • "I didn't stick to my plan perfectly, so I might as well give up" • "If I'm not the best, I'm the worst" This kind of thinking can leave us feeling stuck

🌟🌟🌟 This week marked International Men's Day, and I want to take a moment to recognize something important: men's mental health matters. Too often, men feel they need to handle everything alone, that reaching out is a sign of weakness rather than strength. And too often, men are measured by what they provide—their productivity, their success, their ability to "hold it together"—rather than being valued simply for who they are. But the truth is, you are more than what you d