11/26/2025
What If Thanksgiving Morning Didnât Have to Feel Like Punishment?
Thanksgiving Eve is one of the biggest bar nights of the year. Everyone goes out. Everyoneâs home. And for more than 15 years, I went right along with it. It felt fun in the moment⌠or at least I told myself it was.
But the next morning? That was the truth.
Not once â not in all those years â did I wake up on Thanksgiving without regret. Iâd open my eyes to anxiety, shaking, queasiness, headaches, body aches⌠trying to pull myself together just enough to show up for my family. And even when I did, I wasnât really there. I was exhausted, irritable, and wishing the day away.
But I convinced myself thatâs just what people do on Thanksgiving Eve.
Except it wasnât âwhat people do.â
It was just what I had been doing for years.
Now, waking up clear-headed on Thanksgiving morning feels like a gift I didnât even know existed. Peace. Presence. Energy. Actually enjoying the day instead of recovering from the night before.
If this hits something inside you â if youâve lived those mornings â know this:
You donât have to keep doing it.
Youâre allowed to want something better.
Youâre allowed to wake up feeling proud instead of panicked.
And itâs absolutely possible.
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