This piece really captures something special about healing as continuation rather than disruption. The way you frame December as simultaneously an ending, middle, and beginning perfectly describes how growth actaully unfolds in real life. I've noticed the same thing in my own recovery work, where the pressure to "move on" often made things worse, but allowing myself to stay connected to what matters made everythign lighter. The insight about removing yourself from circumstances versus just battling symptoms is kinda profound.
It took a long time for me to realize that I spent years just combatting the symptoms rather than taking a step back to look at the core issues that were keeping me tied down. Often times the things we should let go of are the things we want to clutch to the hardest so that cognitive dissonance really does take such a long time to process and work through. Glad I'm the other side (of a few hard things at least) and so excited for 2026 to be a continuation of that (: Hope you're in a good place as well.
This piece really captures something special about healing as continuation rather than disruption. The way you frame December as simultaneously an ending, middle, and beginning perfectly describes how growth actaully unfolds in real life. I've noticed the same thing in my own recovery work, where the pressure to "move on" often made things worse, but allowing myself to stay connected to what matters made everythign lighter. The insight about removing yourself from circumstances versus just battling symptoms is kinda profound.
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It took a long time for me to realize that I spent years just combatting the symptoms rather than taking a step back to look at the core issues that were keeping me tied down. Often times the things we should let go of are the things we want to clutch to the hardest so that cognitive dissonance really does take such a long time to process and work through. Glad I'm the other side (of a few hard things at least) and so excited for 2026 to be a continuation of that (: Hope you're in a good place as well.