12/12/2025
🎄 Let’s Get You Through the Holidays
Everyone posts holiday smiles… but behind the scenes, many are fighting depression, loneliness, and addiction. Below is holiday addiction support to help with coping with depression & loneliness.
1. ❤️ It’s Okay if the Holidays Don’t Feel Joyful
For many, this season brings grief, stress, or loneliness.
Acknowledging your feelings keeps you grounded.
2. 📋 Create a Simple “Holiday Safety Plan"
Prepare with:
• people you can call
• events you may skip
• coping tools (prayer, journaling, grounding)
• an exit plan for triggering gatherings
• healthy routines for sleep & meals
3. đź’ Know Your Emotional Triggers
The holidays often stir: grief, comparison, family conflict, financial pressure, and seasonal depression.
Naming triggers weakens them.
4. 🤝 Don’t Isolate: Even Small Connection Helps
Reach out to:
• a counselor
• a support group
• a trusted friend
• your church
• a recovery meeting
Isolation fuels addiction. Connection fuels healing.
5. ✝️ Lean on Your Faith
Prayer, scripture, worship, and quiet reflection bring peace and strength.
Faith doesn’t remove the struggle. It helps you walk through it.
6. 🧠Challenge the Emotional Traps
Thoughts like “everyone is happier than me” or “I can’t do this” are not truth.
Kim helps clients replace them with faith-based grounding.
7. 🛑 Protect Your Peace With Boundaries
If an environment triggers stress or substance use, you can decline.
Your recovery matters more than expectations.
8. 🌿 Choose Healthy Coping Tools
Try deep breathing, walking, gratitude lists, devotionals, journaling, or calling someone safe.
9. đź’¬ Get Support Before the Season Peaks
Kim Hart offers Christian counseling, emotional support, and personalized recovery plans.
You don’t have to carry this alone.
