Reading Time: 4 minutes This year, sweet baby Jesus, this year is one for the books. Two years of the pandemic with all the death, dying, illness, discord, fear, and fighting…
this year is requiring sacred closure with an urge I have never felt this strongly before. This year wants to be wrapped like a baby and put to bed with a lovingness that heals what it was. 2021 wants to be ritualized before we take the calendar off the wall.
Holidays
Reading Time: 2 minutes The holidays signal a time for family gatherings, traditions and the spirit of giving. Make this holiday season even more meaningful by giving gifts like these that help children in need around the globe.
Reading Time: 6 minutes Today is a special day. It is the shortest day of the year if you live in the Northern Hemisphere. Friday, December 21st, is the Winter Solstice. On Saturday the sun will once again travel north and our days will slowly begin to lengthen.
If you live south of the equator, of course, it is all opposite. It’s your Summer Solstice. You all have reached your peak of daylight and now your sunrises will be just a bit later each morning.
I’ve always been fascinated with how humans developed holiday celebrations and traditions to ease them through these darkest days, and to celebrate the return of the light.
The actual moment of the Solstice varies each year. This year it occurs at 2:23 p.m. Pacific Time. Find out when it occurs in your own time zone here.
Reading Time: 2 minutes By: Sarah Grace Powers – Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Let’s face it—even if you’re a person that absolutely loves the razzle-dazzle of the winter holidays, even if you find joy and delight browsing through your local shops or favorite websites in search for that perfect gift for your favorite friend — you probably notice yourself getting a little stressed out from it all sometimes.
Holiday stress is a thing. We want to get it perfect. To find the best gifts that knock their socks off, prepare the most delicious meals, show up for that New Year’s party in a dress that makes you feel like you’re on a movie set.
We want the kids to be happy, the travel to go smoothly, and of course to look and feel fabulous throughout it all.
Inevitably that’s a fail. And you might already know it and have been dreading that feeling of stress and failure for the last month or so.
- Thrive
How Cat Poop On My Computer Helped Me To Realize My Many Blessings (And A Few Holiday Stress-Relieving Tips)
by Confluenceby ConfluenceReading Time: 6 minutes It’s holiday time again. The songs and carols remind us that, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” and that we should be filled with merriment and holiday cheer.
Instead, you may find yourself riddled with stress, worry and anxiety as you anticipate family get-togethers, and race around trying to fulfill holiday obligations.
Although I began to understand a long time ago the futility of trying to ‘do it all’ at holiday time, it took me a while to let it go. I’m still not 100% there. It’s hard to release oneself from years of cultural conditioning, and there were far too many years that I got way to stressed out in an attempt to create a ‘perfect’ holiday experience for my family.