Yoga Calm 24440

02/01/2026

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m not for a moment,
expecting this to occur,
for that is not possible,
a year must be all things.

Happiness must come and go,
like the tides and the winds,
just as sadness,
and all the emotions in between.

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m really wishing you,
a baseline of peace,
of gratitude.

Because if you can sit with these things,
for the most part,
happiness will thrive,
when it does arrive,
and sadness will know its place in the mix.

If you can nourish these things,
daily,
you will also grow hope,
for it flourishes in such soil.

And hope is the key,
to this enigmatic state
of ‘happiness’ we seek.

When I say ‘happy new year’,
I’m really wishing you more happy days,
than sad days,
more joy than misery,
more laughter than tears…
and the wisdom to accept,
that they all belong.

Happy new year, my friends.
Happy new year.

Donna Ashworth

From ‘to the women’ 📕❤️

#2026

31/12/2025

On the stroke of midnight tonight, you can resolve to be better, if you like…
to be fitter,
to eat cleaner,
to work harder.

On the stroke of midnight tonight,
you can resolve to become a whole new you,
if you so choose.

Or, you can take a moment to acknowledge what you already are.
Because it’s a lot.
You are a lot.

And you deserve to be truly seen.

On the stroke of midnight tonight, perhaps you could congratulate yourself, for coping.
For breaking, again,
for rebuilding, again.

For catching the stones life has thrown at you,
and using them to build your castle that little bit more beautifully.

And if you have used those stones to block yourself in for the ‘heal’, perhaps you can realign them this year. Make a grander gate, not a higher wall.

You have endured, my friend.
Through times you thought unendurable. You did.

And I don’t see the need to resolve to become a whole new you,
when you are already so very much indeed.

Happy new year.

You made it.

Now let us face another 365 day-turn, arms wide…
accepting, embracing and ‘seeing’ one other,
for all we truly are…

breaks and all.

Donna Ashworth

31/12/2025

May the New Year Be Kind to You

May the new year be kind to you.
May it unfold gently,
with moments of warmth that find you when you least anticipate them
and with simple lasting joys that deepen with time.

May there be peace in the ordinary days,
light in the heavier ones,
and kindness, given and received, woven through it all.

May you feel supported when you are tired,
hopeful when the road feels uncertain,
and grateful for the quiet blessings that often go unnoticed.

May what you carry become lighter,
what you seek come closer,
and what you love continue to grow.

And may this new year meet you with grace,
offering space to heal,
room to dream,
and the reassurance that good things are still finding their way to you.

~ 'May the New Year Be Kind to You' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art Unknown via Pinterest

29/12/2025

Day 28…

If you must review the year gone by for highlights and achievements, switch the perspective to really see all that you are. And celebrate it. All of it.

Donna x

29/12/2025

The ‘new year, new me’ noise is building… but you don’t have to listen or join in.

I wish you peace in 2026.
Everything else is all just a part of it.
Let it be so.

This piece is from my daily guided journal, ‘words to live by’, which many of us have spent a year with now. If you’d like to join us you are so welcome: let’s bring in a peaceful but fulfilling 2026 🙏🏻 📘. A year where we don’t punish ourselves into submission but rather accept and grow even more wildly.

The journal:
https://amzn.eu/d/i5yot29

You will find the group in my stories.

29/12/2025

In this season of turning, as light and darkness meet, may you pause and feel the simple truth of being here—alive, breathing, belonging. Whatever this time brings—joy or sorrow, connection or quiet—may you meet it with a tender heart and deep self-compassion.

May you remember that nothing you feel separates you from love, and that you are held in a vast field of care. May kindness guide your steps, peace soften your body and mind, and love widen to include us all.

With Loving Blessings, Tara

26/12/2025

Day 26…??

Turns out I’m not ready to give up my advent calendar quite yet. And anyway, all traditions must begin somewhere, so perhaps I’ll be the first to carry on until the new year. After all, the week inbetween can be a scary place for some. And we need one another to stay seeking light.

So… here we are and here we go. Day 26. Stay kind to yourself. And stay merry where you can. It’s not to be suffered, this life. It is to be lived.

Donna

20/12/2025

Day 20 of my advent.

If you are in the northern hemisphere… we are almost upon the solstice tomorrow at 3pm. And from then, light begins to return to us. It’s always returning and you always survive. What a thing.

Donna x

20/12/2025

Day 19 of my advent.

Peace, love and goodwill.

That’s it. That’s all. Just whisper peace when you feel the mercury rising and radiate calm into every cell of your being.

It radiates, it ripples, it helps 💛

D x

20/12/2025

Day 17 of my advent…

You’re only a ‘kind’ person, if you’re kind to yourself too…

I promise, whatever it is you’re facing right now, being kinder to yourself will make it much easier to handle. 💛

Donna

17/12/2025

🙈

Day 17 of my advent…

Each day I’m torn between two or three messages but this is the one that won today’s tussle.

It is so easy to be completely photographically absent from the whole thing when you’re busy - but really you must stop and allow the memory to be felt but also to be captured.

Our brains cannot keep it all but our camera rolls can… and our heart will be eternally grateful one day.

(And how we think we look is only an illusion in a moment of time, it will not matter a jot when viewed with eyes that seek love and remembering.)

This one is in Joy Chose You which is on sale today on Amazon ###x

Donna x

Love to you all 💛