LONDON — Harriet Sugarcookie, founder of Sugarcookie.com, is reminding those that are not celebrating Christmas with family and friends to contact her via email again this year.
In the new Sugarcookie.com article, “Being Alone at Christmas" she urges fans to write to her at a specially-designated email address, harrietsugarcookie@gmail.com, and check in with her on Christmas Day.
"Last year we got over 200 emails,” Sugarcookie wrote. "I think it's nice to know that there's at least one person out there that is thinking about you and hoping you're having a good day.
"When I first did the open email Christmas thing four years ago, I didn’t have any expectations,” she added. “The fact is, on Christmas day itself, I do very little … opening and responding to some emails sounded really easy.
"But the emails I got were so much more than I was expecting,” she continued. “I found out that out there, there are so many people who were going through the same thing I was. That is, the had these feelings that they couldn’t let out or articulate properly."
Sugarcookie also posted another article recently, “How to Not be Alone at Christmas,” where she defended the act itself — "there are a lot of people that want to be alone on Christmas," reminding fans to enjoy the alone time.
"Try and remember the last time you really had a day of self-care,” she concluded. “You could do whatever you liked, read a book, listen to music, have a bath and relax. You wouldn’t have to worry about being interrupted and you have a day to just do whatever you wanted."
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