When the Holidays Hurt: Finding Healing in a Season That Remembers

The holidays arrive every year with glitter, warmth, tradition, and expectation — but they also arrive with something far less talked about: the quiet ache that settles in the heart long before the lights are plugged in. For many people, this time of year awakens the rooms inside us we thought were closed. It pulls forward the memories we buried, the emotions we silenced, the losses we never fully grieved, and the hopes we are afraid to touch again.

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