emotional wellness

“The Permission to Celebrate Differently”

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

“Your way of celebrating is not wrong, just yours.”

There is a quiet courage in choosing new rhythms, not everyone wants large gatherins or crowds. Not everyone wants noise or has the capacity to to host. Not everyone wants to stay until midnight or travel long distances. Celebration that costs your peace is not celebration, it’s performance.

You can love your family and friends and still choose shorter visits, smaller circles, or a different day entirely. You can say no to what collapses your nervous system and yes to what nourishes your soul. You can create holidays that feel like healing instead of acting.

Celebrate in your language,
the rhythm only you know.
Joy is more honest
when it’s allowed to grow.

Gentle practice:
Choose how you want to celebrate this year by adding one thing new to experience without resistance but instead observation, let wisdom create new insights to build upon new ideas and allow courage always to be honored. There is no growth or knowing more when change is resented and resisted by anyone. It is within celebration we honor someone or something important to us, when it becomes less than that, change is required.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow, we gather everything we’ve explored this week and lay down what no longer fits.

“Traditions That Don’t Break People”

Posted on by Kerri Elizabeth

“Traditions are supportive, they were never meant to break you.“

Many families cling to rituals because “it’s what we’ve always done.” But people evolve. Finances change. Relationships shift. Energy levels rise and fall. A tradition that worked fifteen years ago may not be kind today. Renewal is not disrespect, it’s wisdom.

Reinventing the holidays doesn’t erase the past; it creates room for the present. Affordable games, shared dishes, heartfelt notes, gratitude jars, giving something you have (maybe even a sentimental family heirloom) to another person who loves it too. Share the gift of its presence and memories without its ownership but instead a loved memory, this helps change fear of loss and attachement to honor and appreciation and helps us to learn to release what is external and grow deeper internally. (this also requires you to let go of the expectation of what another does, it is a practice in giving fully.)

These honor everyone’s reality without demanding uniformity. Joy grows best where pressure dissolves.

Let tradition breathe,
let the seasons evolve.
Make space for new rituals
where every heart is solved.

Gentle practice:
Introduce one new tradition that feels lighter, simpler, or more inclusive this year.

-Kerri-Elizabeth-
Tomorrow, we’ll talk about the freedom to celebrate differently, without explaining yourself.