A Gentle Holiday Note (and Two Ways to Support Yourself Right Now)

Jewelle
3 days ago
3 min read

If the holidays feel tender, you are not alone.

For so many women healing from childhood trauma, emotional neglect, betrayal, or chronic stress, this season can stir up a particular kind of ache—old roles, old expectations, old memories that live in the body even when the mind is trying to “be fine.”

I want to offer this soft invitation and two simple ways to care for your nervous system and your heart this season.

1) The Holiday Survival Guide

If you’re heading into a gathering, a hard conversation, or a stretch of days that feel emotionally loud, I made something you can keep close.

The Holiday Survival Guide is a free, trauma-informed support tool you can pull up on your phone (or print) whenever you need a steadying moment.

Grab it now so it’s there when you need it:

Before you walk into the room
After a triggering text or phone call
When guilt, grief, or old family roles flare up
When you need a quick way back to your body

Get it here: Holiday Survival Guide

Save it to your phone so it’s there when you need it.

2) Letters to the Girl I Was (a trauma-informed guided journal)

I’m also deeply grateful to share that Letters to the Girl I Was is now available.

This guided journal is a tender writing practice for inner child healing and self-forgiveness.

It is designed to be used slowly, gently, and with care for your nervous system. It is inspired and informed by the years of RIM sessions I have facilitated. (Regenerating Images in Memory)

Inside you’ll find:

13 guided letters (12 letters plus a final “today self” letter)
A processing page with each letter
A grounding exercise to help you integrate and move forward with more peace

And one of the letters that many women have been waiting for is:

“Letter to the Girl Who Wasn’t Allowed to Cry”

I didn’t plan to add an extra letter to the digital version of Letters to the Girl I Was. In fact, I had already submitted to Amazon for publication. And so this letter is only included in the PDF version.

While creating it, my own healing asked for this next level to be acknowledged and felt. The process allowed me to see something about myself that had lived quietly in my body for a long time.

That’s how I know this process works.

Not because it’s neat or pretty,

but because it’s gentle enough for truth to surface safely.

(And not on a convenient time line, as this showed itself the day after the paperback was published.)

The journal isn’t about forcing memories.

It’s about creating enough safety for what’s ready to be felt. It has for me.

Choose your format:

Instant PDF download : Letters to the Girl I Was (PDF)
Paperback on Amazon: Letters to the Girl I Was (Paperback)

If you’re not sure where to start

Here’s a simple way to choose:

If you need support right now for the season → start with the Holiday Survival Guide.
If you’re ready for a deeper, steady practice (even 10 minutes at a time) → start with Letters to the Girl I Was.