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Hurting for the Holidays: Living In Between by Tara M. Owens

photo by Tara M. Owens  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.   
“It doesn’t say to do it this much, but it’s just not coming together.”
My hus...

Hurting for the Holidays: A Question for Christmas by Minde Meng

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.


As I write this, it is not even Thanksgiving yet and my head is already spinning with December schedu...

Hurting for the Holidays: Walking in the Land of the Living by Kelly Gerken

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. 
It was November 3, 1996 when my life was forever changed. I was twenty-one years old when...

Hurting for the Holidays: Permission Granted by Brittany Gooding

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.


Braveheart,

I know the holidays are your least favorite time of the year -- all the pain and heartache...

Hurting for the Holidays: Christmas is Broken by Margo K. Mohney

photo by Margo Kalfas Mohney
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 used to love Christmas. When I was young, we’d put the tree up after Thanksgiving and be...

Hurting for the Holidays: Let the Ashes Lie by Abby Norman

photo by JenniferUpton
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.


Maybe you aren’t looking forward to the holidays. Maybe just thinking of being merry and bright leaves...

Hurting for the Holidays: Taking Care of Me by Mandy Hansen

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. 
This year there has been a slight shift in my emotional holiday readiness. I want to celebrate...

Hurting for the Holidays: A Candle in the Darkness by Heidi Faith

photo by ched cheddles
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.


Sometimes, from the bottom of the chasm of darkness, we discover the only place there is to look, is up...

Hurting for the Holidays: Black Sheep Holiday by Heather Annais

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.


by the time this post goes out - thanksgiving will be over. and I will be able to breathe. just a bit...

Hurting for the Holidays: Introducing a New Blog Series

photo by Jennifer Upton
Today is Thanksgiving.  Happy day!

I mean . . . it is happy, right?

Well, in theory.

A day off from work and school, gathering with loved ones, delicious food enjoyed together, and a host of other holiday traditions to relish?  That should be amazing.  And for a lot of folks, it is amazing.

But there are some of us for whom the holidays are a less than happy time.

For me, the holiday season, and particularly Thanksgiving, has been hard for all of my adult lif...