{"id":9760,"date":"2017-12-12T06:36:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T11:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newvinegrowing.wordpress.com\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:37:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:37:57","slug":"embracing-all-the-emotions-of-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/embracing-all-the-emotions-of-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing all the emotions of the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"

The holiday season can be emotional for many of us, and not just the happiness and joy TV commercials are soaked in.
\nSome people feel the grief and loss of departed loved ones.
\nOthers feel sadness and loneliness, maybe because they don’t have a close relationship with family or a partner or because they’re far away.
\nIt could be anxiety about money, stress about too much to do or worry about talking politics with that<\/em> relative …
\nJohn and I finally watched Inside Out<\/a>, the 2015 Pixar movie about the emotions that live inside our heads. I’ll assume that since it’s been out two years, you won’t be crushed by this small spoiler: Emotions come to understand they all have an important role to play.
\nInside Out isn’t the first Pixar movie to reduce me to tears — I think just watching the trailer for Up<\/a> would probably get me weepy again — but in particular, seeing a child outgrowing her imaginary friend excavated memories of losing my own long-ago imaginary friend. Funny how mid 40s isn’t as far from childhood as I’d thought.
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