11/13/2025
🌙 The Extra Silent Night
This is for the hearts living through an extra silent night this holiday season 🎁🎄
🪑1. The Empty Chair Isn’t the Only Thing Missing
It’s not just who’s gone — it’s the you who existed when they were here.
Grief changes the way we show up at the table, the party, the gathering.
Maybe this year, part of healing is letting a new version of yourself sit down too. Don't be afraid of the change that accompanies that new you.
🎄2. Quiet Joy: The Kind Grief Teaches You to Notice
When the noise fades, the small things start to glow — the single candle still burning, a smell that carries memory, the hush between songs.
Grief sharpens your sight for beauty that doesn’t need to sparkle to be real.
🤝3. The Art of Letting Others Inside
You don’t have to face the quiet alone.
Let the people who’ve been gently knocking on your heart come in — even if just for tea, or a shared silence.
Sometimes healing begins when you let someone help carry what feels too heavy for one set of hands. Let friends support you as you navigate this new normal.
❤️🩹4. The Sacred Middle
You may not feel broken, but you’re not “better” either.
You’re somewhere between missing and remembering — a quiet middle where love still lives, softer but unending.
🕯️This too is sacred ground.
Because sometimes, the most sacred sound of Christmas is the silence that still holds years of loving, seasons of growing together, and a lifetime of remembering.
