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The holiday season often brings joy and celebration, but it can also stir up feelings of emotional overwhelm, anxiety, loneliness, and grief. For many, the pressure to be cheerful and social clashes with the reality of personal struggles. Taking care of your emotional well-being during this time is not just helpful—it’s necessary. This post offers five practical self-care steps to help you manage these complex emotions and find moments of peace amid the holiday rush. Creating

When emotions feel overwhelming, we tend to hear messages like "you're too much" or "calm down." These responses often come from a place of misunderstanding, but they can make managing big feelings even harder. The truth is, you’re not “too much”—you’re dysregulated. This post explores how invalidation affects emotional regulation and what learning to regulate emotions looks like in everyday life. Finding calm in a quiet space helps with emotional regulation How Invalidation