The Messaging I’ve Refused to Buy Into This Holiday Season |
It’s the end of December, the winding down of a busy month for therapists and families alike. While we process the events of 2025, including the high points, the grief, and the compulsion to check those last few boxes on the to-do list, I want to propose something a little different. I offer you the following challenge: What will you NOT be doing over the next few weeks? In the hopes that you will think about the boundaries you can set in your own life to make this time of year more rest and relaxation and less burnout and overstimulation, I’ll share with you the few goals I’ve come up with to help me remember not to buy into the hype of the holidays at the expense of caring for myself.
1. I have not and will not be putting an ‘Elf on the Shelf’.
I get it. It’s a chance to be creative, and the pictures, I’ll admit, are cute. It’s also a lot of marketing and unpaid labor that falls exclusively on women (if there are men who are putting the Elf on the Shelf, I want to hear from you — I’ll wait). Women continue to do........