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  By: Megan Brewer, LMHC As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many anticipate a very different kind of holiday season this year. It has felt to me like we have all been on a progressive journey of discerning what the next season will be like, and, along the way, we have been adopting a new kind of acceptance in each season. This has been the journey of my family as we waited and reevaluated each month, trying to decide if it was safe to spend the holidays together. When we first started discussing the potential risks of traveling, it was difficult to arrive at a decision to not see each other as we had in years past. It took months of us talking it through and settling into the reality that the wisest decision for us was to forgo our usual holiday time together and stay home. The decision took time for me to accept, but once I did, it opened new opportunities to creatively celebrate in ways I had not previously thought about. Now, that doesn’t mean our family stopped longing ...

By Nate Webster IMH             Each Christmas people everywhere engage in dozens if not hundreds of different traditions. From drinking eggnog, to the mistletoe, to socks over the fire place and much, much, more. But how many of us actually know the origins of these timeless traditions? Learning about the history of traditions can be incredibly fun. It reminds us that we are apart of a very long and wonderful history of people celebrating the holidays. So lets look into the origins of three popular traditions. Eggnog: Many of us drink eggnog, and can’t resist its thick eggy goodness, but if we are honest, it is a strange drink. There are very few drinks similar to it, so where does this random eggnog drink come from. Well according to Elizabeth Dias of Time Magazine, “While culinary historians debate its exact lineage, most agree eggnog originated from the early medieval Britain “posset,” a hot, milky, ale-like drink...