12/31/2025
I feel this so completely...
We spend so much of our lives trying to hold everything together, convinced that our strength is measured by how much we can carry. But as this year comes to a close, maybe your greatest strength wasn't in what you held onto, but in the moments you finally had the courage to let go. It is okay to be honest about the fact that some parts of this year really hurt. It is okay to admit that you are grieving the things you thought would look different by now. You aren't "weak" for feeling the weight of your losses; you are simply human, and you are allowed to honor the chapters that had to end before you were ready for the finish line.
What if you started looking at the things you lost not as failures, but as clearings? Sometimes, life has to remove what no longer fits to make room for what actually belongs. You aren't empty right now; you are finally open. The space that feels so quiet or uncertain is actually the space where your new life is finally going to have room to breathe. You have spent so much time mourning the "no" that you might not have noticed the "yes" that is finally able to reach you—simply because your hands are finally free to catch it.
You don’t need a perfect, ten-step plan for January. You just need to have the heart to show up as the person you’ve become. The version of you that survived the hard days of this year is wiser, softer, and more resilient than the person who started it. Trust that you are exactly where you need to be. Trust that the space you made was worth it. Let yourself go into this next chapter with a quiet heart, knowing that the most beautiful things in your life are often the ones you never saw coming.