Member-only story
Dealing with Holiday Grief
For Introverts, Extroverts, and Ambiverts
The family member that you normally only see once a year, for good reason, just said the thing you knew they would say and now your blood is boiling. Don’t they know you’re grieving? How could they possibly act like this? Flustered, you step away as a last-ditch effort to de-escalate. How you refresh the Self and re-calibrate, which we all need to do before heading back into the house, depends on whether you’re an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert.
It’s good to become familiar with the best methods to recharge and regain energy and balance during this emotionally-heightened time of the year. Knowing this helps you clearly define how you interact with the world around you during the holidays.
In the simplest terms, you can think about introversion or extroversion as the way you gain energy or the way you get back to your internal safe place. It’s the soulful mechanism that brings you a sense of peace, which for the extrovert may be reaching outward, and for the introvert, turning inward. The ambivert is somewhat of a balance that exists between the two.
