29/12/2025
This year wasn’t easy..
Mental health and breaking stigma have been part of my life for years, shaped through therapy, lived experience, and daily practice. Trying to carry that work into a wider space, alongside a full-time career and my own healing, asked more of me than I realised.
What began with hope slowly became heavy. Not because the work wasn’t meaningful, but because my capacity has limits especially as an AuDHer navigating energy, sensitivity, and rest. Burnout wasn’t a failure, it was information.
There were moments when I couldn’t show up the way I wanted to, and the guilt was loud. Still, I’m learning that showing up imperfectly, or stepping back when needed, is also a form of care.
I didn’t thrive everywhere but I survived where it mattered, and I grew in ways that were quieter and deeply personal. I’m grateful to myself for listening when my body asked for pause, and to those who trusted me and stayed.
This year felt like many things at once, a marathon, a soft reckoning, a reminder of limits, and a quiet miracle. And that is enough.
I want to remind myself and all of you that whatever this year has held for you, making it this far and surviving is more than enough.
You are worthy of resting.
You are worthy of restarting.
You are worthy of failing, learning, and beginning again at your own pace, in your own time.
Nothing about your worth is measured by consistency, productivity, or perfection.
Being here is enough.
I’m looking ahead to the next year with the same gratitude,
choosing calm over urgency,
listening to my body’s wisdom,
moving with resilience that is slow, informed, and kind.
Not forcing growth.
Not rushing healing.
Just moving forward with awareness, rest, and trust in what my body already knows.
Letting this year end with gratitude and moving through the next with calm and care❤️
✍️OG
