What is it like to spend Christmas Day alone?

We all hate to be left out.

Today, on Christmas Day, I want to talk with you about loneliness. If you are alone today, and lonely, I want you to know I wrote this episode for you.

1. I’ve experienced deep, dark, terrifying loneliness AND I found a bridge to turn that loneliness into an abiding joy.
2. I’m going to tell you about how one of my clients found their way out of a similar loneliness
3. And I’m going to tell you how I understand my parents’ divorce—the source of my loneliness—differently after finding my way out of that loneliness.

Habit for Your Happily Ever After

This week’s habit for your happily ever after is to go on a research adventure to find all the beauty in brokenness.

When we look for the beauty in the brokenness of things where we don’t have an emotional attachment, we begin to develop a different relationship with brokenness. We begin to see example after example of how gorgeous brokenness can be.

3 Stories of loneliness

I tell 3 stories in this episode. The first story is about how loneliness feels in your body. I talk about dark caves and deep seas.

Then I tell 2 stories about how my parents included me in their loneliness, but also taught me to cultivate joy: a bridge to healing our own loneliness. My mother taught me to make sand castles, and my father taught me to make up new rules to Monopoly when the game needs to change.

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