Winter is the time for quiet, for rest, for going within. Winter is the time to snuggle in, eat warm, nourishing soups, sip tea, and nurture and care for ourselves. Winter is the time for less DOING and more BEING.
This time of year is a beautiful time for remembering what is important to us, for reflecting on what is working for us in our lives ~ clearing out and leaving behind what is not ~ and for looking ahead with softness and with Intention.
What is really important to me?
How do I wish to FEEL?
How do I wish to BE? to show up for Myself? for my loved ones?
How am I caring for myself?
How am I not?
What do I need more of? Where can I carve out time for my needs?
What habits/ behaviours will I bring forward into 2025?
What habits/ behaviours will I leave behind me in 2024?
What does my self-care routine look like? What would I like it to look like? Why?
These are the kinds of questions that are worth some reflection as we leave behind 2024 and invite in 2025. But let me be clear. This is not about "should-ing" on ourselves. Resolutions that are set at the beginning of a year are often based on "shoulds" and on "willpower". This is not that. Reflection and Intention Setting is based NOT on what you think you should do differently, but instead on how you wish to FEEL differently, on how you wish to BE in your life. It's about "Why"power over "willpower". Why is this important to you? Why do you want to FEEL or BE this way?
I often choose a Word of the Year. Have you done this before? This is a touchstone word that brings us back to our priorities throughout the year - it informs our Intentions and is influenced by our Core Values (what is most important to us). It is a guiding word that can anchor us back to ourselves quickly and powerfully long after we've forgotten the intentions (and/or resolutions) with which we started out our year. With an eagle view of our life at the beginning of the year, this touchstone word, or talisman, can help us to remember our Why - when we forget down here at the "mouse" view - and can help us to "walk" toward this way of Being. In other words, it's a way of BEING more a desired way, in order to HAVE a desired outcome, that inspires what we DO (the actions that we choose to take).
How do you want to FEEL in 2025? How do you want to BE? When we remember who we want to BE, the doing naturally follows... our actions get inspired from our way of BEing.
Tis the Season for Reflections and Intentions.
If any of this resonates for you and you feel called to invite in 2025 with me ~ with Intention and softness ~ then please find yourself a cozy, uninterrupted space, brew a hot cup of tea or cocoa, light a candle, grab your journal and your pen
and...
Join me in a virtual Circle of Women as we Reflect back on 2024 ~ what we will take with us into 2025 and what we will clear out + leave behind ~ and on what we will call into 2025 with softness, grace and Intention + perhaps a Word of the Year!
When? Saturday, January 4th at 10:30am
Cost? $25
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