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How I make the holidays work for me

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I remember one Christmas where I was with a whole bunch of people at a family gathering and everyone was talking. I felt almost as if I wasn’t there.

I was really trying to be in the moment, but I wasn’t. I felt so alone. That was the worst.This made me realised that I was forcing myself to do things that weren’t working for me.

It was making me dread social events like that. And it was always on my mind, because there would always be another one coming up, whether that was a family gathering or the Easter holidays.“If it's not right for me, then I just don't do it, whatever that is, and I try to find something that does work for me.”So I decided to put things in place to help me cope with the holidays.

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