24/12/2024
Wishing all of you a very very happy holidays! 🎄🎁
The holidays are such exciting, stressful, and challenging times all in one. Celebrating new beginnings and first experiences: 1st holidays together as a married couple, 1st baby’s holidays, engagement and pregnancy announcements, and so much more!
BUT….
They can also be filled with stress about all the holiday expectations, traditions, financial strain, and/or upcoming changes. Did I hear anyone say new year resolutions expectations!?! I hear that! 🙋🏽♀️
Or filled with mourning for the people that are missing at the table, opportunities lost, expectations unmet, an empty womb, broken relationships, or traumas of holidays past.
The truth is that we all fall into each of these categories, we each have our joys and struggles and I am here to tell you that each experience is OKAY! It’s valid, and worth every ounce of your attention and feelings - however they may look like!
So please, be gentle with yourself and each other these holidays.
Take some space if that’s what your heart needs.
Pump some iron 🏋🏼♀️ if the anger bursing needs it.
Scream, cry and shout with excitement for the great news!
Ugly cry and let that make up get yucky if the pain in your heart can’t hold it any longer.
Do what you need to do to take care of yourself, and those you love and care for. But no matter what you do, don’t forget that the night is always at its darkest when the dawn is about to break and shine some light. Don’t forget you’re not alone, even when it feels like you are. Don’t believe the lie that you need to figure all this s**t on your own, you don’t have to, and someone inf your life will be happy and ready to lift you up - all you gotta do is reach out, and if you don’t know who to reach out, I’m here.
So friend, I hope that upcoming days you can slow down, recover physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, and that when the whirlwind of it all is over, you can look back at it with eyes of appreciation, because you showed up just as you are!
With love, The Cosgrove’s & Fernie Cosgrove Events
We’ve been through it all this year, and know there’s light at the end of the tunnel!
