The holidays are coming: are you lonely yet?

I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who did not, at some point in their lives, whether by force or by choice, have to spend the holiday season alone. We’ve all been there: the holidays, even if you’re surrounded by people, can be some of the loneliest times. The risk of a lonely Thanksgiving and Christmas is even more hyper-charged now, because of social media and the endless ads of happy families, or countless pictures of other people’s fabulous family-and-friend-rich holiday travels and fun (whether it’s real or not).

So anyway, it’s an awful feeling and some people may already be dreading the fact they will be spending the holidays alone. So, I’ve got an article coming out at Catholic Stand this week on that topic - I think it publishes Monday - and then Thursday I’ll be back on my regular 8:20 am time on Morning Air to talk about it. Specifically, it’s what we can do to fend off the loneliness if we are spending the holidays alone. That includes things like acts of service, but also the advice to stop comparing ourselves to others. Social media is the thief of joy in every sense, especially when so much of what people put there is fake, “curated,” and edited to look the best. Maybe all the people you see in those pictures actually hate each other. So just relax and let the comparison go.

I’ll share the article here when it’s up, and hope you will join me on air this Thursday!