01/01/2026
“Be ground, be crumbled so wildflowers will come up where you are.”
Birth was the experience of a lifetime for me last year. I was adamant about having a home birth and determined not to go to the hospital, in a country new to me, where I don’t fully grasp the language.
I was so vocal about my intent that I wouldn’t let the word “fear” even cross the threshold of my lips. But there came a moment just before I was ready to push that one of our midwives asked me, “is there anything else you haven’t said yet that you need to say.”
“I’m scared I can’t do it.”
“Now you’re ready to push,” she told me. It took admitting my fear to give myself fully over to the experience, rather than sheer will power, clinging fiercely to my intention. Expressing fear doesn’t mean you manifest it into creation, it means embodying authentic emotion and expression of truth. I had to be ready to die to totally give myself over to the experience to open to new life. The gift of surrender strikes again.
I didn’t push this new life out, not only our beautiful daughter, but living in Argentina with my partner in a totally different hemisphere. No it wasn’t pushing that got me here, it was letting go of the grasp and yielding completely. I let the river of life carry me into this new adventure and into motherhood and I’m utterly enchanted. It is a dream come true, a dream written so deep on my soul that I never knew the words to write it.
So even though most years I’m here offering new years manifesting meditations and vision board circles, this past year of becoming gifted me a quieter message. It doesn’t take sheer willpower and determination to get there, wherever there is for you.
Surrender and listen because the thing the universe has in store for you may be so much better than what you are pushing to manifest. It might require a hard bumpy grief laced road, but the vista at the peak is worth it. Motherhood is simultaneously hardest and best thing that I’ve experienced in this lifetime thus far.
I hope to see 2026 through the eyes of a child, full of wonder, full of grace and trusting something bigger to carry me. Happy dancing through 2026!