2023: My Year in Review
Hi my love,
How are you? How’s December treating you? Are you in a pensive mood like me? (But like when are we not 🫠?!)
It’s that time of year when my mind wants to convince me I haven’t done enough, but my soul urges me to reflect on all I’ve done.
So at the end of each year, I like to list out all of my “accomplishments”. It’s a nice reminder that I have, in fact, done enough. That I can, in fact, relax. And that I am, in fact, exactly where I’m meant to be.
Can I share a little bit of it with you?
In 2023, I:
Let go of el ex tóxico (my biggest accomplishment this year, because I didn’t just let him go, I broke a pattern)
Invested in my well-being by taking Yale’s Happiness Course and Michael Singer’s Surrender Course
Started blogging again
Put myself out there and went on 5 first dates
Went back to the yoga studio after a 3 year hiatus
Released some labels I felt were holding me back (backpacker, spiritual, entrepreneur)
Basically I let go, a lot
And accepted, a lot
If there was a theme for 2023, it was definitely letting go.
I don’t know if I accomplished “big” things in the standard definition. But in all of the letting go, I did receive a lot of clarity.
I let go of my mind’s definition of success, which allowed me to tap into my soul’s true calling.
I let go of - or more like I’m in the process of letting go of - this illusion that something outside of me is going to fill the void.
It was another year of taking a hard, honest look at the role I’m playing in my own life. And my friend, the seeking phase is over. It’s time to take action. (😮💨 Feels good to say that.)
Listen, I’m really on a mission over here to find a strong sense of worth within and remember my True Nature.
A soul having a human experience.
It’s funny. The more I:
Journey deeper with
Sit with the loneliness
Allow myself to fully feel the pain
The less I:
Want to spend time on social media
Feel the need to prove something
Reach for external validation
Because, and I cannot stress or say this enough, it is in letting go that we reconnect with who we truly are.
And that’s when we realize the real flex is not needing to flex at all. And real freedom is freedom from the mind. And the goal is truly inner peace in the present moment.
In the coming weeks, I urge you to take some to reflect on your own accomplishments, especially the intangible, inner ones. I’d love to hear some of them if you want to share with me.
Wishing you a peaceful holiday season filled with self-recognition, self-kindness, and self-compassion. Because you too deserve to be proud of yourself. I know I am.
Proud of you. Proud of me. Proud of us.
