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234in <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/being-present/" rel="category tag">being present</a>&middot <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/compassion/" rel="category tag">compassion</a>&middot <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/courage/" rel="category tag">courage</a>&middot <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/embrace-the-reminder/" rel="category tag">Embrace The Reminder</a>&middot <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/human-connection/" rel="category tag">human connection</a>&middot <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/human-needs/" rel="category tag">human needs</a>&middot <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/only-love-today/" rel="category tag">only love today</a>&middot <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/relationships/" rel="category tag">relationships</a>&middot <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/self-acceptance/" rel="category tag">self-acceptance</a>&middot <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/self-forgiveness/" rel="category tag">self-forgiveness</a>&middot <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/self-love/" rel="category tag">self-love</a>&middot <a href="https://www.handsfreemama.com/Topics/what-i-would-have-missed/" rel="category tag">What I Would Have Missed</a></span></p><h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline">Hard News Can Wait When Your Presence Is Love</h1>
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236<p>On the morning of my daughter’s high school graduation last spring, I received difficult news.</p>
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244<p>Responding right then would’ve meant halting my morning preparations to craft a reply—one that undoubtedly would pull me away from the joy of the day and into an emotional spiral.</p>
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248<p>I glanced at the message again, felt the familiar tug of urgency, and made a conscious decision to put away my phone and turn back to the mirror.</p>
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256<p><em>Only Love Today.</em></p>
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260<p>When I got into the car with several family members, I briefly considered sharing the news. But I knew saying it out loud would throw me off-center and cast a shadow over our momentous day.</p>
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264<p>It helped to remember something my mom once told me after I delayed sharing difficult news with my children:</p>
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268<p><strong>“It’s okay to give yourself time to process hard things before helping anyone else do the same.”</strong></p>
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272<p>There’s an unspoken pressure to deliver bad news the moment we receive it, as if immediacy is a measure of responsibility. But I’ve come to believe that giving ourselves space to breathe, to think, to&nbsp;<em>feel</em>, is not avoidance; it’s wisdom.</p>
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276<p>My mom’s advice had helped me immensely in the past, and it felt like what I needed then. I took it a step further by imagining my small, beige clutch as a lock box. I placed the bad news inside—figuratively—and sealed it shut. There was nothing I could do about the situation at that moment, so I let it rest there while I turned my attention to what mattered most: fully witnessing this milestone in my daughter’s life.</p>
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280<p>Before sealing away the weight of the bad news, I reached for something to anchor me in the moment: an embroidered handkerchief sent by a dear friend.</p>
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288<p><strong><em>“Rachel, you are worthy of pretty handkerchiefs as you plant pauses and behold the beauty of Avery’s graduation.”</em></strong><strong></strong></p>
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296<p>It was as if my friend intuitively knew exactly what I would need on this day. What she didn’t know was that my 85-year-old dad had carried a white hanky in his pocket every day of my life. Having this reminder of him felt especially poignant. A month before graduation, he’d made a difficult phone call to Avery—his voice catching as he explained that his health wouldn’t allow him to travel for the ceremony.</p>
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304<p>I knew then how important it would be to share the experience with my dad later. As I surveyed the rows and rows of chairs that would soon hold a graduate, I thought of how each one carried a story of quiet triumph.<br><br>I looked around at the proud, smiling families eagerly awaiting their child’s entrance.<br><br>And I said a quiet prayer for the family of the graduate who is no longer with us—their empty chair marked by a graduation gown and a white rose.</p>
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308<p><strong>Staying present in that moment was the gift I gave myself, so that later, I could give it to my dad. I wanted him to know not just what took place, but how the experience&nbsp;<em>felt</em>.</strong></p>
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316Fourteen years earlier, at Avery’s preschool graduation, I’d had a painful awakening. I realized I was missing my own life—living distracted, self-critical, always managing—and with that, missing the chance to truly know my child. That day, as the tiny graduates sang songs about growing up, I cried tears of gratitude. Because of that awakening, I believed there was a good chance I <em>would</em> truly know my daughter.</p>
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324<p><em>“I can’t help but feel excited about who Avery will be when she walks across the high school graduation stage years from now. I can picture it – my curly-haired Noticer of life brightening the whole auditorium with her contagious smile. I’ll lean over to the person sitting next to me and whisper, ‘I know her; I know every good thing about her.’”</em></p>
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335<p>To stand there all these years later, watching that same bright soul walk across the stage – and to&nbsp;<em>actually know</em>&nbsp;her – felt like a miracle.</p>
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354<p>Today I see the proof on the handkerchief—decorated with faint traces of makeup and dried tears. <br>Evidence that I was <em>all there</em>—<br><br>sitting with joy and sorrow<br>the regrets and the grace<br>filling the gaps, the holes, the empty seats—<br>with all the love and presence a heart can hold.</p>
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358<p>My hand in yours,<br>Rachel</p>
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366<p>I’ve realized over the years that staying present rarely happens by accident. Most of us need gentle reminders to come back – to the people in front of us, to ourselves, to what matters most.</p>
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370<p>That realization inspired something very special I’ve been working on throughout the past year: the <a href="https://amzn.to/4titIRp"><em>Only Love Today</em> 2027 page-a-day calendar</a>.</p>
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377<p>Designed as a daily companion, this color, tear-off calendar offers one compassionate reminder each day to breathe, refocus, soften, and begin again. </p>
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grief wears disguises …
fear talks in unbecoming ways …
anxiety gets controlling …
depression can look like fatigue …
740hopelessness withdraws…
and when we see these things,
it is not a time to lecture, turn away,
or retaliate —
but a call to love.

741My hand in yours,
Rachel 
742
743📘poem from my 4th book LIVE LOVE NOW: Relieve the Pressure &amp; Find Real  Connection with Our Kids">
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749            <span class="sbi-screenreader">December can stir up pressure we were never meant </span>
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753
If you’re feeling stretched thin or expecting too much of yourself, these permission slips are for you.
754
755May they help you lower the bar, 
756soften your pace, and protect the peace you’ve worked so hard to claim.
757
758If one slide speaks to you, save it, send it to a friend, or say it to yourself.
759
760Rest is not a reward —
761it is a remembering: 
762you are worthy, too.🩵
763
764Only Love Today. 
765
766My hand in yours, 
767Rachel">
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773            <span class="sbi-screenreader">December 2010 found me overwhelmed, exhausted, and</span>
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777
778It reminded me of this truth: You are allowed to receive love, joy, and rest — not just give it.
779
780If holiday stress, anxiety, or emotional fatigue has you pushing toward the finish line, please remember:

781this is your life.
782
Your story is still unfolding, still capable of softness, still open to joy.
783
784I wrote a new essay in Rachel’s Treehouse on how to feel heard and bring self-compassion into December. Click the link in stories or comment RECEIVE if you’d like to read it. 
785
786My hand in yours, 
787Rachel 
788
789As always, please leave a heart if you are here. It helps to know we are not alone this December. 
790
791#onlovetoday">
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797            <span class="sbi-screenreader">During a very difficult season, I invited everyone</span>
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800	            </svg>	                    <img decoding="async" src="https://www.handsfreemama.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="During a very difficult season, I invited everyone at our Thanksgiving table to share one thing they were grateful for. I remember holding my breath while trusting that whatever emerged—messy, honest, tender, real—was worthy of being heard.
801
802That moment taught me something I now know for sure:

803When we make room for grief, we make room for our humanity… and for the humanity of those we love.
804
805That’s where healing begins.

806If you’d like to read more, I wrote about this more deeply in my latest Treehouse essay. Link in stories or comment SPACE, and I’ll send it to you.

807My hand in yours,
808Rachel 
809
810🩵 Please know how grateful I am for everyone in this community. Thank you for letting me know how my words have felt like support to you this year. It means more than I can say.">
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816            <span class="sbi-screenreader">Let this be your reminder:
817You don’t have to dis</span>
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821You don’t have to disappear to keep the peace.
822
You don’t have to abandon yourself to belong.
823
You don’t have to hold the whole room to be worthy of love.
824
825Only Love Today means turning some of that love inward —
toward the parts of you that fall back into old patterns during the holidays, the parts that brace, perform, shrink, or overgive.
826
827This reminder is for anyone learning to stay true to themselves while still loving the people around them.
828
Only love today… 
829and in the week ahead.
830
831My hand in yours, 
832Rachel">
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838            <span class="sbi-screenreader"></span>
839            	                    <img decoding="async" src="https://www.handsfreemama.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="Let no one tell you your efforts don’t matter.
840
Because they are wrong.
841
842To ease pain is everything.

And if you touch even one life through your actions, one is enough.

843I say this as someone who learned a lot
when I finally stopped trying to convince people who were never meant to understand.

844The quiet inner nudges,
the ones with no words,
only truth—
that’s what needed my trust,
not the naysayers.

845Go where your heart indicates your presence is needed.
Trust what you feel, even if you can’t explain it yet.

846My hand in yours,
Rachel">
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852            <span class="sbi-screenreader">I thought it was a reflection in the glass. 

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Surely, it couldn’t be a tiny rainbow. The sky was nothing but clear blue and sunshine.
856 
857So, I got out of my car to investigate. 
858Sure enough, it really was a rainbow wedge just waiting to be spotted.
859 
860I felt this surprising sense of relief that I’d witnessed it.

I know… that probably sounds strange.
861
@dermotkennedy has this line in his song “Lost.” He sings, 
862 
863“My sense of wonder is just a little tired.”

That’s how I’ve been feeling this fall – 
like my wonder has grown weary.
864 
865I love that the very next line in the song is this:
866 
867“But if only you could see yourself in my eyes, 
868you’d see you shine, 
you shine.”
869 
870I saw Dermot perform this song a cappella a month ago. I stood on the floor of a packed venue with tears sliding down my cheeks. Every single person in the room knew the lyrics. For 3 minutes and 45 seconds, there was no “othering” – just us. All of us, together.
871 
872I wanted to write about that moment, but it felt too small in the grand scheme of things.

The
872n yesterday, after posting here for the first time in a while, a friend reached out. 

She trusted me with something really tough she’s going through.
873 
874And I was so grateful she told me 
875because if she could see herself in my eyes, 
876she’d see she shines, 
she shines. 
877 
878And I told her so.
879 
880A few hours later, I saw that tiny rainbow in that clear blue sky, 
881and my childlike wonder, the one that had gone dormant, was revived.
882 
883I heard myself say, wow.
884
And suddenly, in the grand scheme of things, 
it didn’t feel insignificant at all,
like maybe this pocket-sized rainbow was something 
my friend needed,
885we all needed, 
in this tender season of weary wonder.
886
887Let’s keep looking. 
888
889Let’s keep sharing. 
890
891The smallest things hold us together.
892
My hand in yours,
Rachel 
893
894🌈 What tiny marvels have you witnessed lately? In my Treehouse, I call these stories hope scrolls - as opposed to doom scroll - and they really can lift the human spirit.">
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900            <span class="sbi-screenreader">“I saw my openness, my trust, my over-kindness n</span>
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904A reader pulled that line from my recent newsletter and said, “This one really got me.”
905
When I thanked her, she replied,
“I’ve been discussing your essay with my husband all morning. Really timely for me in my healing journey.”
906
907Her words reminded me how many of us move through the world with soft hearts we’ve been taught to doubt, toughen up, or hide.
908
If that’s you, I want you to know you’re not alone.
909
910On a recent flight, I encountered an elderly gentleman who became a mirror — showing me that my softness was never the mistake. I had simply misunderstood it.
911
912It brings me peace to share the moment that helped me reclaim openness, trust, and kindness as a soft strength worth protecting, especially in a world aching for human connection.
913
914Climb my Treehouse ladder and read the full story.
915
Comment SOFTHEART &amp; I’ll send you the link directly or click the link in bio or stories.

My hand in yours,
Rachel
916
917🧡 If you’re here, would you leave a heart, so I know? It’s been a while since I posted here. Your presence means more than you’ll ever know.">
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923            <span class="sbi-screenreader">This poem from my book Soul Shift is personal.
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930I wrote it for my students who were shunned.
For women who came to my workshops and said, “This is the first time I haven’t felt invisible.”
And, of course, for little Rachel—
the girl who often wondered if something was wrong with her.
931
932There wasn’t. 
She was just planted in the wrong place.
933
934I’ll never forget the first time I uprooted…
and found HOME among strangers who felt like family.
That moment changed me—
and it’s why I continue to leave my comfort zone to create circles of connection and belonging.

935May you never confuse rejection with unworthiness.
May you keep seeking the conditions where you can thrive.
936
937🌱You are worthy of good soil.
938
My hand in yours,
939Rachel
940
941🍂My final in-person gathering of 2025 is six weeks away… 
942This one’s for the givers. 
943The ones who make it look easy—until they break down. 
944For those who’ve forgotten they are a worthy recipient of their own caregiving. 
I’d love for you to be part of this circle.
945✨ Only Love Today: A Restorative Retreat for Givers 
🗓 November 7–9 @artoflivingboone in the Blue Ridge Mountains ⛰️
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