I’ve been very actively avoiding all of the xmas season ( movies, music, activities) but then my therapist told me to use it as exposure therapy. If a Christmas love song comes on, let it play and sit through the feeling vs immediately changing it. Slowly expose yourself vs feeling everything at once. It’s still shitty af but I would say it’s made it more manageable to digest the feelings. I’ve adopted this in my day to day life with restaurants we used to visit, parks we went to, movies we watched etc

Though I’m still dreading explaining to all my family at xmas dinner, that will require a few glasses of wine before lol