HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- Sophie Shaw
- Dec 27, 2024
- 2 min read
Happy New Made-Up Period of Time!
LOLZ.
I'm not being churlish, but I would love to remind you - in amongst the BARRAGE of diet ads and 2025 planners and manifesting courses for sale - that the so-called New Year only means what you make it mean.
It can be a golden opportunity to review and reflect, and dream and plan - but so can every morning that you wake up!
I also want to remind you that you are already enough, exactly as you are. You do not have to reinvent yourself to be acceptable, or think of new and different ways to improve yourself, or constantly reach for something more and better in some nebulous future version of your life.
It is gorgeous to dream and plan your future - I encourage it. But hold your plans lightly. Let them go, and focus on loving what is right in front of you today, whatever it is.
I found this post on Instagram, from @itslennnie and @elizabeth_gilbert_writer to be so compassionate and loving on this topic.
What do you think?
It's great to have big dreams, and to work on them every day - but as I always say, make sure that they're coming from a place of self-love - NOT from a lack of self-acceptance.
And remember, that if you're in the Northern hemisphere, we are wintering, and we do not need to worry about sprouting right now.
Now is the time for nurturing, planning gently, resting, and making ready for the spring. Taking good, loving care of ourselves is always on the menu.
With that in mind - Happy New Year! What are your dreams for the coming 12 months? I would love to know! What are you nurturing into existence?
Big love,
P.S. Do you have a Word of the Year yet? I love coming up with a theme - if you have one, share it with me!
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