The Holiday Burden

The holidays are upon us.
With everything that comes with them.

Expectations.
Loss.
Demands.
Lonely nights and days.
Added work you can't quite manage to fit around what's already there.
Empty chairs.

All of this coming at us almost faster than light, on top of everything the last year has thrown in our faces.

I don't know about you, but I can feel my fingernails, wedged into cracks trying to hold me up, starting to break.

What if we promised each other we'd try, as much as we can, to just.....let it all go?

Step away from what we can.

Take care of ourselves as well as everyone else.

Let someone else pick up the burden, or, decide if it's actually one that needs to be carried?

I know, that if I told you just how tired I am, how worn down, how at my last gasp I am, you would tell me to do this.

So this is me, this is the Her War, Her Voice Team, telling you to do the same.

You can't keep filling everyone else when your own self has been emptied.