Getting Through January is My Only New Year’s Resolution

I can’t fix the bleak feeling that comes with January, so I’m learning to adapt to it.

Jacqueline Dooley
Age of Empathy
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5 min readDec 30, 2023

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Seven years ago, my daughter, Ana, was dying from cancer. She spent the last few months of her life — January through March — struggling to breathe. As we approach the new year, I’m once again facing what has become my…

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Jacqueline Dooley
Age of Empathy

Essayist, content writer, bereaved parent. Bylines: Human Parts, GEN, Marker, OneZero, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Pulse, HuffPost, Longreads, Modern Loss