Here we go.

I can get through this.

I know they want me to try.

I don’t feel like trying.

This is too hard.

Please make the hurting stop.

I don’t have it in me.

It shouldn’t be this way.

But it is.

So I’ll be brave.

It’ll get better.

I just have to keep trying.

Here we go.

Sometimes this is as Merry & Bright as we can get. Guess what? Totally cool. I love talking about it. Grief, the hard stuff, the socially awkward pieces of life’s crud. Because I believe that’s where we find our deepest connections to ourselves and each other. So that means Holiday Cheer is an opportunity and it is also not off limits.

If you’re riding the waves this season, I’m in the inner tube next to you friend!