There are less than nine hours left of Twenty Twenty Four.
It had such a good sound to it to me, 2024. I liked the cadence of it (and took this as my word of the year…), the evenness. I’d have circled it in the contents chapter of my life as one that ‘had a good feel about it’.
As it turned out, it really was significant. I have no way of knowing if it will be the defining most important year of my life. But I do know it will always be a top three contender.
This is not the part where I start to talk about how bad 2024 has been, or the villainous nature of the character it became. In the year where I got a double bill of major life events, the binaries of good and bad would be too easy to fall towards. Because here’s the thing;
This is the year that I have felt most alive.
So I choose not to call it bad times. 2024 has been a teacher, I’ve been the student and I’m ending the year stronger than I’ve ever felt, if not a little weary of being thrown so many lessons in this lifetime.
The narrative at this time of year is to slow down, cocoon, nestle and dissolve into the wintering season. But after a year of metaphorical wintering, I woke up from a hibernation last week all out of kilter with the seasonal wheel. I am wide awake, with a surge of creativity.
I write to tell you this as a commitment to get back to regular writing here, the digital space where I’ve always felt the most at home. I have half written posts and unreleased meditations and really, so many things I want to say in what will be a transitional year for me.
2025 Aspirations
To stay alive
To mark the circling of one year of grief with a trip to The Golden Circle, Iceland
To complete 100 clinical hours of psychotherapy placement and set up my own private practice with a focus on infertility and reproductive trauma - I’ll be using this space to explore that.
To continue to work as a fertility doula for a lot of 2025 before I fully transition to therapist.
To teach yoga again, in old ways and different ways (and you can catch me doing that in my new course Evolve In Six, a six week hybrid yoga + mental wellbeing + fitness experience where I’ll be pouring a LOT of love and energy as we head towards spring. I’ll write about this separately but for now, you can explore it here
To gain more mastery in handstands (who knew these would be such a grief balm)
There are more. But these will do for now. They aren’t resolutions, or even goals. They’re hopes, held gently within the uncertainty of how any one year can unfold.
Happy New Year I will see you in ‘25.
H
Here for your Substack in 2025! 💕🙋♀️