Comments on: How Do I Release My Inner Grinch? https://ohmygodlife.com/how-do-i-get-over-my-inner-grinch/ Tools for Radically Joyful Living Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Melissa Phillippe https://ohmygodlife.com/how-do-i-get-over-my-inner-grinch/#comment-20474 Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:40:56 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=17791#comment-20474 In reply to SALLY C Smith.

Hi Sally,
That’s SO awesome that you’ve found a way to celebrate in your own way. This is inspiring to hear. Thank you!
BIG Love,
Melissa

]]> By: Melissa Phillippe https://ohmygodlife.com/how-do-i-get-over-my-inner-grinch/#comment-20473 Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:39:58 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=17791#comment-20473 In reply to Gary Eisenberg.

Hi Gary,
Your joy and infectious love definitely take the Humbug out of the Holidays for us! Thank you!
XOZ

]]> By: Melissa Phillippe https://ohmygodlife.com/how-do-i-get-over-my-inner-grinch/#comment-20472 Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:39:19 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=17791#comment-20472 In reply to Michael Colbert.

Hi Michael,

I’m so sorry to hear about that situation. It sounds quite challenging indeed. Sending you love and blessings this holiday season, including peace of mind with everyone in the family.

BIG Love,
Melissa

]]> By: Melissa Phillippe https://ohmygodlife.com/how-do-i-get-over-my-inner-grinch/#comment-20471 Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:38:31 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=17791#comment-20471 In reply to Leslie Craig.

Hi Leslie,
This is so beautiful. I love that you are taking such impeccable care of yourself, dousing yourself in gratitude. How beautiful!! Merry Merry to YOU!
BIG Love,
Meli

]]> By: Melissa Phillippe https://ohmygodlife.com/how-do-i-get-over-my-inner-grinch/#comment-20470 Sun, 25 Dec 2022 00:38:01 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=17791#comment-20470 In reply to M. Kathleen Stewart-Lightner.

Hi Kathleen,
What a wonderful idea!!! Thank you for sharing this with us. It’s such a great way to bring true holiday spirit back into the holidays. Wow. Thank you!
BIG Love, Meli

]]> By: M. Kathleen Stewart-Lightner https://ohmygodlife.com/how-do-i-get-over-my-inner-grinch/#comment-20450 Fri, 23 Dec 2022 01:40:44 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=17791#comment-20450 Dear Ho Ho Hater,
I can relate. Back in 1991 while trying to shop for gifts for family and friends I found myself becoming irritated wondering if the gifts I purchased would be something they would like, or would it in up in a closet. They could all afford whatever I could give them and they certainly didn’t need anything. That’s when I discovered the Giving Tree with paper starts with children names and ages on them. So I picked up a star for every person on my Christmas list and sent a card to my family and friends stating, “instead of you getting a give from me this year, Susie will get a Barbie doll, or Tommy will get a Tonka truck, and so on. And I asked my people not to send me a gift, but instead buy something for a child through some charitable organization. This really brought back the meaning of Christmas for me and I’ve been doing it ever since. When I lived in HW one year I missed the Giving Tree but found there were several kids in the homeless shelter from infants to teens. I purchased gifts for them all, wrapped them and the tag said they were from Santa. I few month later I received an envelope filled with thank you note addressed to Santa. I cried like a baby. I still read those letters and get choked up every time. For me, this is what Christmas is all about.

]]> By: Leslie Craig https://ohmygodlife.com/how-do-i-get-over-my-inner-grinch/#comment-20445 Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:09:40 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=17791#comment-20445 I am spending this season recovering from surgery, in a hospital away from home, so I’m falling back on our old friend gratitude! Yay, I survived! The pain is way less than I thought it would be. My care team rocks. My daughter drove two hours to see me. My Center has been dousing me in Treatments. And instead of fussing over observances, I am being gloriously lazy. My family laughs: “The things some people will do to keep from gaining weight over the holidays!”

]]> By: Michael Colbert https://ohmygodlife.com/how-do-i-get-over-my-inner-grinch/#comment-20437 Wed, 21 Dec 2022 00:56:23 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=17791#comment-20437 I’m sorry guys this is not on topic but it is the holidays and there’s one group in my family that I’m dreading showing up at their celebration. Just one person drew my partner Deborah and I into a situation and I had total trust and that everything would be fine. Then a few months later everything changed and she and the other people in the house made us feel like we were the enemy and it got so bad that we had to leave there was never any logical explanation for this behavior and moving there and then leaving cost me about $4000 out of my savings which was substantial I felt I was betrayed and deep down I’ve been holding onto that anger for a couple years now I know it’s not healthy and I need to MoveOn but I need some help thanks for listening

]]> By: Gary Eisenberg https://ohmygodlife.com/how-do-i-get-over-my-inner-grinch/#comment-20436 Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:39:15 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=17791#comment-20436 I am 68 for a few more days and for the first time in n my life discovered the holidays are all about me. My past humbug came from not liking myself. But now since I am starting a love affair with myself, I see myself everywhere in the holidays. The candles in the menorah reflect the light in me. I am the miracle reflected in the oil. I am that baby in the manger so worthy of adoration and love. I am the Grinch’s heart growing with love at the end of the story. How can I humbug when I feel like Scrooge waking up on Christmas morning, a changed man. Unconditional love to myself was a mystical experience and no words or stories or songs will make sense until you’ve had that experience. The only hope I can give to my humbug gers is that it is possible.

]]> By: SALLY C Smith https://ohmygodlife.com/how-do-i-get-over-my-inner-grinch/#comment-20435 Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:22:38 +0000 https://ohmygodlife.com/?p=17791#comment-20435 For the longest time I hated the season of Xmas. The memories I had of the family and the trauma served to intill dread when it came around. Then I decided after every one of my family obligations were done, I would celebrate in my own way. Celebrate the light and my own renewal. Now it is easier to just enjoy the love.

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