Navigating the Holiday Blues

Every year, when the holidays roll around, there’s this pressure in the air.
Pressure to be cheerful.
Pressure to be social.
Pressure to spend money we don’t have.
Pressure to show up in rooms where we don’t feel safe, understood, or welcome.

But for so many people — especially those carrying grief, trauma, generational burdens, or complicated family histories — the holidays don’t feel like a warm celebration. They feel like a reminder. A disruption. A season that asks for more energy than it gives.

This week on The Chiron Intensive, we sat down and opened a conversation that so many young Black adults need but rarely hear:
What do you do when the holidays bring up loneliness, heaviness, or memories you’d rather forget?
And how do you take care of yourself… without pretending?