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Hurting for the Holidays: When Your Story is Rewritten by Larisa Barth

photo by Jennifer Upton For the 2013 holiday season, I am hosting a blog series called Hurting for the Holidays.  Twenty-six amazing guest writers are sharing their hearts, hurts, and helps to help those of us who carry an internal ache to navigate this celebratory season.  Find all posts in the series here, and participate via social media through the hashtag #HurtingfortheHolidays.   There is a song by Mandisa & Matthew West called "Christmas Makes Me Cry". I am...

Hurting for the Holidays: That Mourns in Lonely Exile by Hillary Rain

photo by Hillary Rain
For the 2013 holiday season, I am hosting a blog series called Hurting for the Holidays.  Twenty-six amazing guest writers are sharing their hearts, hurts, and helps to help those of us who carry an internal ache to navigate this celebratory season.  Find all posts in the series here, and participate via social media through the hashtag #HurtingfortheHolidays.




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Today is Winter Solstice in the North. I am grateful for this darkest night. I sink into soul-skin and...

Hurting for the Holidays: For When You are Ready to Revel by Angela Renee

photo by Jennifer Upton
For the 2013 holiday season, I am hosting a blog series called Hurting for the Holidays.  Twenty-six amazing guest writers are sharing their hearts, hurts, and helps to help those of us who carry an internal ache to navigate this celebratory season.  Find all posts in the series here, and participate via social media through the hashtag #HurtingfortheHolidays. 
So many powerful voices have filled this sacred space with answers to the piercing question, “...

Hurting for the Holidays: A Christmas Due Date by Jo Puggioni

photo by Jo Puggioni
For the 2013 holiday season, I am hosting a blog series called Hurting for the Holidays.  Twenty-six amazing guest writers are sharing their hearts, hurts, and helps to help those of us who carry an internal ache to navigate this celebratory season.  Find all posts in the series here, and participate via social media through the hashtag #HurtingfortheHolidays.


I remember laughing when the doctor gave us the due date of December 25, when I became pregnant with my f...

Hurting for the Holidays: Avoiding Burnout by Flowrsinherhair

photo by Jennifer Upton
For the 2013 holiday season, I am hosting a blog series called Hurting for the Holidays.  Twenty-six amazing guest writers are sharing their hearts, hurts, and helps to help those of us who carry an internal ache to navigate this celebratory season.  Find all posts in the series here, and participate via social media through the hashtag #HurtingfortheHolidays.


A few years ago now, I suffered burnout.  It wasn’t a physical condition and it wasn’t a nervous...

It is Written

 I didn’t expect life’s next betrayal to come from the inside.  A trusted shelter, the most sacred space, its curtain rent by death and rife with treachery.

Thirty one weeks we had walked in the world as parents, ripening with expectation.  Eleven weeks since we saw her via ultrasound, ten since I felt her move within me.

And then –

No kicks, none of the rolling in my belly that filled my blood and skin and synapses with joy.  A midnight drive to the hospital, calmly check...

Hurting for the Holidays: The Weary World Rejoices by Sarah Wheeler

photo by Jennifer Upton
 For the 2013 holiday season, I am hosting a blog series called Hurting for the Holidays.  Twenty-six amazing guest writers are sharing their hearts, hurts, and helps to help those of us who carry an internal ache to navigate this celebratory season.  Find all posts in the series here, and participate via social media through the hashtag #HurtingfortheHolidays.


Weary. That word is so fitting for this season of my life: so weary I can barely lift my head at...

Hurting for the Holidays: Don't Ever Regret the Hope by Elora Ramirez

photo by Jennifer Upton
For the 2013 holiday season, I am hosting a blog series called Hurting for the Holidays.  Twenty-six amazing guest writers are sharing their hearts, hurts, and helps to help those of us who carry an internal ache to navigate this celebratory season.  Find all posts in the series here, and participate via social media through the hashtag #HurtingfortheHolidays


Over the past few years, I've written countless posts about what the holidays ...

Hurting for the Holidays: When Advent is Grieving by Rachel Haas

photo by Jennifer Upton
For the 2013 holiday season, I am hosting a blog series called Hurting for the Holidays.  Twenty-six amazing guest writers are sharing their hearts, hurts, and helps to help those of us who carry an internal ache to navigate this celebratory season.  Find all posts in the series here, and participate via social media through the hashtag #HurtingfortheHolidays.
 

i don't know what to write.

because what do you say when you thought your grandma was out of the...

Hurting for the Holidays: When It's Okay to Run by Franchesca Cox

photo by Jennifer Upton
For the 2013 holiday season, I am hosting a blog series called Hurting for the Holidays.  Twenty-six amazing guest writers are sharing their hearts, hurts, and helps to help those of us who carry an internal ache to navigate this celebratory season.  Find all posts in the series here, and participate via social media through the hashtag #HurtingfortheHolidays.


The answer to a lot of my problems is running away. So naturally when Jenna died I ran with the idea...