Good Morning, 2025

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom” said Aristotle.

Thank you Open for opening my first morning of the year with that quote. At the crux of it, isn’t that what all practices are geared towards? Getting to know yourself better.

I drafted a post called “let their practices do their thing” but thought it was more fitting to write about what I was going to say under this title.

2024 was a year of great change and plenty of learning and the start to a deeper healing. The world presented me with similar challenges to what I have experienced before and I first I approached it with frustration. Like ‘ugh I have to go through this again’ or ‘why me’. And it wasn’t until I started becoming aware of how I was repeatedly handling those circumstances that I saw things begin to shift. I believe that the universe will present you with the same set of challenges if it doesn’t think you’ve learned what you needed to yet. I learned this while trying to heal my body. I have had this gut feeling that something is off, not working properly inside of me. And in this year I have built out a support system for my health. Mental, physical, emotional. I have people in my corner now, and people who truly care. And each one of them, their message and their mission, resonates with me.

I started reading for pleasure again.

I stopped and started cooking again.

I learned to rest without guilt.

I started a Vedic meditation practice.

I asked for help.

I cried, a lot.

I smiled.

I told people I was grateful for them.

I paused to look at the way the clouds danced in the sky.

I showed up, again and again and again.

In the past I sought comfort in embracing a victims mindset of ‘why me’ and I could not get over the fact that the world kept dealing me cards that I wanted nothing to do with. Because after all, that didn't quite ‘fit’ my perfect life in my head. I have left that victims mindset behind in 2024.

I am entering 2025 with the intention of forging my own path. Embracing the unexpected with grace and patience. I have the tools to handle whatever is presented to me. Smile big, show up with love and keep working towards my dreams and letting my intuition guide me. Our intuition is one of our greatest gifts, and yet we can easily become so disconnected from it in this world of instant gratification and consumption. Building back trust with myself has helped me strengthen my intuition. It is my superpower. It is what makes me, me.

So thank you to everyone I danced through life with in 2024. Thank you for the support, for the guidance, for the hugs and telling me I am strong and can do this.