“It’s the holidays!” and “Christmas is the best time of the year!” These phrases that your co-worker or friend from school will start saying during the winter months may feel very inauthentic to you. It sucks to feel isolated and out of place because you don’t have a connection to these holidays. We should normalize the fact that different people celebrate and feel connected to different holidays and that is OKAY! Embrace the differences and ask your co-worker and friend why Christmas means so much to them. Acknowledge that you don’t have the same connection and maybe share how you may feel excited for a different holiday.