12/19/2025
If this season feels heavy, overwhelming, or activating, nothing is wrong with you.
The body holds memory.
Through the nervous system, it remembers past relationships, losses, ruptures, and moments when connection did not feel safe. As the calendar turns, these memories can resurface— not always as conscious thoughts, but as sensations, emotions, fatigue, anxiety, or numbness.
Clinically, it’s common for mental health symptoms to intensify around certain times of year. Changes in light, routine, social demand, and anniversary dates can activate the stress response. Spiritually, this can be understood as the body inviting awareness, care, and gentleness toward what has not yet been tended.
Nothing here is a failure.
This is wisdom moving through you.
You are allowed to slow down.
You are allowed to honor your capacity.
You are allowed to choose presence over performance.
Mantras to help you be more gentle with yourself:
“I trust my body as a messenger, not a problem.
I can meet this season with compassion instead of self-judgment.
I am allowed to move through this time in a way that protects my spirit and my nervous system.”
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