December 4th
24 Days of Letting Go
This year for the Advent Calendar I have decided to shed some weight. If you have seen me lately you will have noticed that I am so overloaded with baggage my knuckles drag along the ground when I walk. So every day until Christmas I will let go of stuff that no longer serves me. Maybe you should do the same?
Today I will let go of keeping up a brave face because that is nothing more than self-harm. No one, and least of all I, benefit from me pretending to be well when I am not. All I do is hurt myself and lessen the likelihood of getting help because nobody knows that I need it. It is a disfavor. And it perpetuates the notion that it is not okay to not be okay. That somehow it is wrong to feel anything else than stellar and that is just digging the hole deeper. Be gone and feel love, light, and gratitude.
Pair with It’s My Party with Lesley Gore
Regitze Ladekarl has re-emerged as a raconteur after a long, successful career elsewhere. She crafts universal tales from everyday lives with an honest, sharp and witty pen. Besides working on a forthcoming novel, she flexes her voice with personal essays, flash fiction, and method writing here on Medium.
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