Guide to Happy Polydays
How Polyamorous People Can Thrive Between Thanksgiving and New Year's
Published on 18. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
36 pages
978-1-64841-765-8 (ISBN)
Description
The holiday season can be a time of pleasure but also pressure, especially for folks juggling multiple families, partners, and expectations. Luckily, you've got this inclusive guide full of supportive tips for making your way through the holidays with minimal stress and maximum understanding. Each section illustrates common scenarios, conflicts, and solutions with real-life examples, and emphasizes considerate planning, negotiating expectations, and ensuring everyone has a chance to voice their preferences and priorities (for example, this couple's parameters for gift-giving: "food, beverages, booze, or weed"). Whether you have multiple partners, your partner does, or even if you're monogamous, you can enjoy whatever holidays you choose to celebrate or find yourself obliged to participate in with the help of this zine.
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Kathy Labriola is a nurse, counselor, and hypnotherapist in Berkeley, California. She has provided affordable mental health services to alternative communities for over 30 years. Kathy is author of Love in Abundance: A Counselor's Advice on Open Relationships, The Jealousy Workbook, The Polyamory Break-up Book: Causes, Survival, and Polyamorous Elders: Aging in Open Relationships. She has been a card-carrying bisexual and polyamorist for over 50 years. She is extra crunchy, rides a bike, lives in a housing cooperative, grows organic vegetables and raises chickens. Dr. Faith G. Harper, ACS, ACN, holds postdoctoral certifications in sexology and applied clinical nutrition and is trained in yoga, meditation, breathwork, mindful movement, and all of those other forms of care that make most people avoid her at parties. In the past, she has worked in academia, community mental health, and private practice as a licensed professional counselor. She maintains a connection with academia through her work with the Society of Indian Psychologists. She lives in San Antonio, TX, with her amazing friends and family and terrible rescue cats. She can be reached through her website, faithgharper.com. Subscribe to the Unfuck Your Brain newsletter to get a discount on her books and zines.