new year’s thoughts

Hi! I’m back. After taking a nice break over the holidays to rest and reset, I’m back at the clinic :) And so happy to be here.

I hope you had a lovely holiday season and you are finding some fresh energy in this new year. I actually love New Year. I have a New Year’s birthday so I find the time between Christmas and my birthday to be a really special time to reflect on the past year and plan & create intentions for the year to come. I did a lot of journaling this year. I know not everyone feels that way and a lot of people don’t like New Year- setting goals and intentions may feel more aligned in the spring when the energy is about growth (as we’ve discussed, the energy of winter is rest/hibernation). I just always look at my birthday as my own personal new year? So it feels like the perfect time for me to reflect & set intentions. 

I did Rachel Brathen’s 2 part New Year ceremony that she does on her podcast, From the Heart. The first part is “Processing 2023: A Ritual to Make Space” and the second part is the “2024 Intention Ceremony: Manifesting a Beautiful Year”. I highly recommend doing this around your birthday! It was so lovely and gave me a lot of clarity. Let me grieve, celebrate, plan, dream. So nice. Change can be difficult for me, so processing the past year is super important for me to stay grounded and grateful. 

I regularly set intensions and keep track of goals, so none of my intentions this year were actually new. A lot of it was a continuation or a new, more refined version of something I was already doing. 

My family has been doing a word of the year the past couple years. We share our word on Christmas. I carried this through my birthday/new year journaling exercises which again helped me get clear on my goals, intentions, action steps. I cheated and I actually have 2 words this year- refine and prepare. I am always learning and doing new things in regards to my overall health- mind, body, spirit- and I am now in a stage of refining the things that have been resonating with me over the past ~ year or so. Keeping what makes sense, letting go of what doesn’t feel aligned, but always curious and learning more. Prepare- because I have some fun things I want to do in the next few years- so I am preparing! 

If you did set intentions and feel you would like support with them, come on in for a treatment and we’ll see how we can best support you :)

See you soon!