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Surviving the Holidays as an Estranged Person

Surviving the Holidays as an Estranged Person

Short new essay for Assigned Media

Sandy Allen
December 25, 2025

Welcome to What’s Helping Today, a newsletter about the everyday work of staying alive on earth — written by author and journalist Sandy Ernest Allen.

Hi everyone,

I have a short new essay live this morning on Assigned Media …

Surviving the Holidays as an Estranged Person — Assigned

You may struggle over the holidays if you’re estranged from your family, but you are not alone.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/estranged-lonely-christmas-survival-trans-lgbtq

Grateful to all who read and share this one.

Sending you love,
Sandy

p.s. For anyone who’s not already, hope you’ll check out my big new essay for Lit Hub, on JKR …

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