A New Year - Leaning into Tenderness and Limitless Belief
As each year passes we look back month to month. Reviewing ourselves, our emotions, and oftentimes I find myself speaking to myself with such disdain. The harshest and hardest words, and how I could deface myself in times of adversity, and in times of hardship. 2024 was a hard year. I fought many silent battles, wiped my own tears, and survived. As 2025 comes I challenge myself, and all of those who are looking at our society, our country, and ourselves with anger and pain. I challenge you to not fall into patterns because they are familiar. Push yourself into this new year with new love, with empathy, with daring confidence, and with a tenderness that allows endless love to flow through you.
How am I showing up with more tenderness and belief in myself?
I am waking up with the curtains drawn, and adding the elements of opening up to the sun. There is something about going to bed in a pitch black room, and choosing when you are ready for the world to see you. Physically after doing your readings, prayer, mantras, gratitude journal to then open the blinds and be reminded that there is something about seeing the outside world. Being a part of this Earth, and choosing to come outside of the darkness. Even if it is just from the comfort of your own bedroom.
I am continuing to show up for my community and for those that I love even when I am having a hard time showing up for myself. What I have found is the more that I live outside of myself the more centered I am. The more love I give to others - the more I give to myself. Oftentimes, at least for myself, I isolate and show myself darkness when things feel heavy rather than taking myself out of the equation. I truly believe as humans we are on this Earth to serve - to serve ourselves, to serve the Earth, and to lean into the mission of love and understanding.
