When someone who’s had a tough year says they’ve nothing to celebrate this holiday season, it’s not an invitation to lecture them on being grateful. It’s an opportunity to listen, hold space, respect where they are, and be compassionate. They’re not ungrateful. They’re hurting.

Day 24 Celebrate yourself if this year you allowed yourself to lean on your village. You asked for help. You rested in someone else’s strength. You stopped pretending you could carry it all alone.

Day 23 Celebrate yourself if you carried a broken heart through any part of the year. Heaviest weight. the end of a relationship/friendship the death of a loved one deep disappointment the death of a dream betrayal of any kind The list can go on. I’m glad you’re here.

Day 22 Celebrate yourself if this year you refused to romanticize suffering as character development.

Day 21 Celebrate yourself for Being here.

Day 20 Celebrate yourself if this year you felt your feelings and didn’t send the paragraph to someone who couldn’t be bothered. You typed it. You deleted it. Maybe twice. You didn’t send. Well done.

Day 19 Celebrate yourself if this year you allowed yourself small, small enjoyment, especially when life was showing you the shegeist shege.

Day 18 Celebrate yourself if this year you chose not to give away control by opting not to match someone’s energy.

Day 17 Celebrate yourself if this year acknowledged your expectations and communicated them. Healthy expectations don’t make you needy. They make you honest, self-aware, and clear about what you need to stay well.

Day 16 Celebrate yourself if this year you chose the hard work of repair over the hard work of walking away.

Day 15 Celebrate yourself for getting through 49 Mondays this year You’ll get through today and the last two too.

Day 14 Celebrate yourself this year if you didn’t rush to fix your grief with gratitude. You are honoring what needs time.

Day 13 Celebrate yourself if this year you took responsibility for the impact of your actions, even when your intentions were pure.

Day 12 Celebrate yourself if this year you stood up to a family member who made an unkind comment about another family member’s weight, relationship status, childlessness.

Day 11 Celebrate yourself if this year you caught yourself over explaining and stopped. Even once.

Day 10 Celebrate yourself if this year you let yourself be a little delulu and audacious enough to chase a dream that scared you.

Day 9 Celebrate yourself this year if you recognized and challenged even one core limiting belief. If you paused to ask, “who told me this, and why do I still believe it?” That is major.

Day 8 Celebrate yourself if this year On more days than not, you’ve woken up at the crack of dawn for school even though you aren’t the one going to school and will do it for at least one more week.

Day 7 Celebrate yourself if this year you have Been honest about your feelings in a situation instead of acting unbothered. It’s incredibly brave to be vulnerable in a time when performing detachment is so popular.

Day 6 Celebrate yourself if this year you have Been able to say, ‘I can’t afford that right now,’ when you needed to instead of pretending you could.