A therapist’s guide to navigating the festive season as a queer person
While December is supposed to be full of cheer, family microaggressions don’t exactly get us in the Christmas spirit. Luckily, we’ve called in an expert to import some much-needed advice on how to cope.
WORDS BY JAMIE WINDUST By now, it’s a cliché that the festive period is ~challenging~ for a variety of reasons.
But the stereotype isn’t just the central premise of pretty much every festive romcom ever, it also bears more than a grain of truth – especially for individuals under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella.
Of course, there are problems which feel pretty universal: financial panic after haemorrhaging cash on presents which may or may not be well-received, nauseating small talk with distant relatives, and the post-office-party hangxiety that ramps your Sunday scaries up a notch or three.
