05/01/2026
✨️ My theme for 2026 is 'letting go' ✨️
With hindsight, I can clearly see that during 2025 there was so much I was holding onto that was actually holding me back.
The idea that I had to meticulously plan before doing anything.
That I would somehow lose my ability to work on my business if I also got a job because I'd never have enough time.
Above all I put a huge amount of pressure on myself to *force* things to work. Which only meant that I was acting from a place of fear, scarcity and necessity rather than of true creativity and alignment with my values. Ironic, really, when I consider that a big reason I left medicine is because I felt it didnt align with my values (although that is also only something I learned in hindsight).
In the last month or two of 2025, I've leaned into the fact that actually, I've done really well for myself this year.
I became a wife! A personal one of course, but something really great from 2025 🥰
I plucked up the courage to apply for a job I hadn't done in years and got it.
I started a new freelance role which has brought some really wonderful people into my life and opened up some exciting doors to me.
I gained my first 1:1 client following a webinar I gave in November.
Lots of great achievements, I just didnt let myself see them at the time - because I'd become attached to the idea that 'success' in my business meant being able to get lots of clients and regular teaching work straight away, when of course it's much harder than that.
So this year, I am making efforts to let go of my previous ideas about what success looks like, or what my life *should* be like, and instead seeing the good things that are already here, and being open to whatever else may be next.
Faster doesnt necessarily mean better, and actually, with this slower pace of my business, it feels more aligned with my vision anyway 🤍
What have you been holding onto in 2025 that it might be time to let go of?
Follow along if this resonated with you and you want to also enter 2026 with an open-minded curiosity ✨️
