A year filled with thresholds

This week I find myself looking back at this past year with a deep sense of gratitude. I am grateful for many things, many people, and many experiences. But what I find myself wanting to acknowledge most is the gratitude I feel towards myself, for all the ways in which I opened and stepped out of my comfort zone, again and again.

Often without realizing it, I followed my intuition past many thresholds. I learned to sit with the fears that inevitably arose in these unknown spaces, and I practiced continually saying “yes” to myself and my desires.

The journey has led me to friendships that I’ll carry with me forever. Connections that feel as if they span lifetimes.

I met my fear of being seen and I stepped into the light. I visited shame and found my power. I acknowledged the pain of not feeling worthy, and I allowed my heart to tenderly expand as I relearned the language of radical self-love.

I found a deep truth within me: that I have gifts worth sharing with the world, and big dreams took shape in the space created through this awareness.

I built daily practices and let them go when they no longer served me. I lost myself and I found my way back, again and again.

I learned that I can survive the unknown and that often my imagination of what the unknown will hold, is much worse than reality.

The further I traveled in this new and intuitive way, the more joy, peace, connection, love, and power, I found. And this strengthened my tolerance of the fear, pain, grief, and tenderness that I’ve come to embrace as part of my process.

This year I leaned into the ebb and flow, practiced letting go, and was carried by trust into spaces and dreams that I’d never imagined before.

I am grateful to myself, and I am grateful to you as well, dear friend.

Thank you for seeing me. Thank you for journeying with me.