I'm anticipating a lot of grief in 2026 after a hard end to 2025, so I'm not looking forward to the many January conversations about everything to look forward to in 2026

You can't skip processing grief and jump straight into hope. The grief will consume you and turn into despair, or you'll internalize and repress the trauma and metabolize it into despair via a different path.

Or, I don't know, maybe some people can grieve and hope at the same time, but I know not the way of it. Regardless, humans need to feel the feels. Don't get in the way of that, for yourself nor for anyone else.

Grief sucks. Let it suck. Don't go through ALL of it alone even if you need to be alone for some of it. And consider talking to a therapist as part of that.
#grief