Coach Sonia May Eldergill

  Estranged Family Members at Christmas     Christmas is just around the corner, and it is a time for families to connect with each other, come together for celebrations, reflect on the year, and to look forward to the New Year especially to setting goals, and dreams.     Growing up, I was not a big fan of Christmas and even fast forward to now, it’s still a triggering time of the year for me.     I have memories of sitting around the dinner table without our absent estranged family members who my parents did not invite to have Christmas lunch or to the annual family New Year’s Eve party.     There are some of us who do not have that connection with our family members, we are estranged from them or have zero contact, and it is a subject that’s still a big taboo and a degree of shame attached to estrangement.     You may have decided to have no contact with your extended family dynamics for several ...