Healing Holidays: The Weight We Carry: Navigating

You don’t have to pretend the holidays feel the same.

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re dreading the upcoming weeks. The season is shifting. And when you’re carrying a heavy loss, the routine gatherings, familiar traditions, and unspoken expectations can bring up more than you feel ready to face.

You don’t have to fake a smile, wear a mask, or perform happiness just to get through December.

Join me, Danny L. Ross, M.Ed., LPC-S, and a special panel of community guests from varied backgrounds for an intimate, private Zoom conversation: Healing Holidays.

This isn’t about sitting through another clinical lecture or listening to tired platitudes. It’s a real, grounded space dedicated to hearing genuine stories from people walking this exact path. We'll talk about how we manage to get through these weeks, what it means to sit with others who get it, and how to use what we share as steady support.

What We’ll Talk About:

• Real Stories, Real Survival: Hearing how others manage the weight of the empty seat, the heavy memories, and the days when just showing up feels like a major victory.

• Protecting Your Boundaries: Navigating family expectations, unhelpful questions, and invitations that drain your spirit before you even RSVP.

• Dropping the Performance: Giving yourself full permission to move through the season without the exhausting pressure to perform happiness.

• Community as Support: Learning how to lean on shared spaces and straightforward tools to protect your peace and honor your capacity as it shifts.

Whether you’re anticipating your first holiday season after a loss or carrying grief that shows up in familiar ways year after year, you belong in this room. You don’t have to have the right words, and you don’t have to carry it alone. Come as you are.

Event Details:

• Date: Thursday, December 3, 2026

• Time: 7:00 PM CST

• Location: Live on Zoom

• Cost: FREE (Registration is required to receive the private Zoom link)