Krysee Altrows - Mental Wellness

12/25/2025

Whether your day be merry & bright or quiet and restful, may you have peace, love, and kindness all around you. 💫🎄💫

12/24/2025

It's not even actual Christmas yet and we have already entered the "I need real nutrition" part of the holiday.
May your holiday snacks be as tasty as you hoped they would be!

12/19/2025

Reminder!
Empty those lunches or you may end up with a new pet by the time you open them again!
Have a happy winter break!

12/16/2025

12/15/2025

Happy Hanukkah to all you beautiful souls who celebrate! L'chaim 💙

12/11/2025

This is a love note for a very specific group of women in my community: the ones doing Christmas alone. This is my sixth Christmas as a single parent. I have a big family and it has only grown since that first solo Christmas in 2020. And let me be clear up front: I love Christmas. I love my big fam. I love my big kids. I love this time of year. I love traditions and big dinners. I love giving gifts and making magic. So this is coming from someone who is INTO IT ALL.

This time of year, I feel the lack of a spouse most acutely. In the best of times, Christmas for our family was a two-man job, and even then, we both worked our little fingers to the bone to get it all decorated, hung, shopped, bought, wrapped, assigned, managed, cooked, sorted, and finished. December meant a million decisions a day and a thousand moving parts. The division of labor was an absolute requirement to get it all done. Just my half of the work for two and half decades was fully overwhelming.

And now I do all of it by myself. A bunch of you do too. It’s all on you. You are keeping the traditions going, the house decorated. You are doing all the shopping, all the managing. You are in charge of everyone’s everything. There is no one to hand anything off to. No one to take half. No one to even take a decision off your plate. It is actually hard to describe how lonely and hard this can be.

So I see you. I know you are working so very hard. I know how much you love your family and want to make this season beautiful for them. I understand the fatigue.

And here’s what I want you to know: https://jenhatmaker.com/blog/a-love-note-for-those-doing-christmas-alone/

12/10/2025

What. Is. This. Life!?!?
I have just been humbled in the best way.
Of all things I had on the go today, THIS was no where near what I expected.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 💜