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Living Between Merry and Somber
As we turn the corner into December, I’m thinking about what often feel like contradictory things. On the one hand, I literally purchased a giant gnome cookie jar and green…
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Joy Doesn’t Have to Look Like a Hallmark Movie
When your family includes disability, you can’t do every holiday thing. Joy doesn’t have to look like a Hallmark movie. The holidays can pull us in a dozen directions at…
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When the Holidays Feel Disappointing {Especially for Disability Families}
As we move into the holiday season, I’m so thankful for this invitation from psychotherapist Niro Feliciano to approach these weeks with gentleness, flexibility, and honesty about the lives we’re…
Patiently, Beautifully Wrapping Presents
Gift wrapping has never been an easy task for Penny. Typically, she’s been relegated to the background of the wrapping extravaganza in our household—handing over supplies to her siblings or…
Embracing the Mystery (more than the magic) of Christmas
Amidst the morning snowfalls and twinkling lights and jolly tunes, we’ve received grim news from a few different people in recent weeks. One of my childhood friends died in her…
Recap of Holiday Fun
Sometimes the holidays are one long stressful reminder of all the childhood wounds and irritations and conflicts you’ve ever tried to work through in therapy. And sometimes they are just…
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Holy Longing
Christmas is a season of holy longing. Whether we are singing along to "Holly Jolly Christmas" or "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," we are longing for joy. Whether we are…
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When Love Shows Up
On Christmas we celebrate because love has shown up in our world. Not in some vague, abstract way. But love, in the flesh, in the person of Jesus. And when…
Holy Disruption
When Mary hears the message that she has been chosen by God to be the mother of Jesus, Luke tells us she was “troubled.” When King Herod hears from the…
S7 E7 | How Advent Resists the Culture Wars with Tish Harrison Warren
Apple YouTube Spotify More! Holiday culture wars and consumerism bring more chaos than joy to the world. But there’s hope. The countercultural season of Advent offers a different way to…
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