12/23/2025
Authenticity can be a hard subject for people around the holidays, where everyone is always pushing you to “be nice” even to the people you hate. (There’s even reference in a blink-182 song…”time to be nice to the people you can’t stand all year”)…if this is what you need to do then that’s ok, be safe.
But when you’re with friends and loved ones, be your truest self. Be unapologetically you, the good and the bad. As the saying goes, if they can’t handle you at your worst, they don’t deserve you at your best.
So even if you can only be your truest self to your diary over the holidays-do it. Embrace all the parts of you.
Let’s go into 2026 with an idea to embrace and love all parts of yourself-the good and the bad.
Today’s card is from Wing Hopf and Paw by Angi Sullins.