Damn, what a year it’s been.
Let me tell you - the overarching lesson of 2023 for me has been to GIVE YOURSELF GRACE + keep pouring into yourself, no matter what it looks like. Constantly, abundantly, and over and over - as many times as you need.
As my acupuncturist (who partially serves as my therapist) put it - my year has looked something like this:
Really high highs, and also really low lows - but all in an upward trajectory and it could not be more accurate!
I’ve been going THROUGH IT chile. Life has really been lifing for like, the last 2 years straight. In my blog last year I talked about the ‘shxt show of 25’…well honey the emotional rollercoaster of 26 broke the charts! But wildly enough, everything I said I wanted this year, I got - just in ways I did not plan or expect!
This year I faced low lows like…
- Absolutely the most stressful 6 months I’ve experienced working full time (burn out!)
- Emotional rollercoasters in the love area every other week lol
- 2 very personal / impactful deaths
- And more..
But also really high highs like…
- Being promoted from Analyst to Assistant Manager @ work and manifesting the EXACT salary I was after. wild + I’m gonna tell you how.
- Being sent to the UK for a hands on course
- Traveling 9 times to places including Paris x2, Thailand, London x3, Vegas (what!!)
- Major princess treatment in multiple every areas of my life lol
- Landing the cutest apartment right in town!
- And more..
It’s been amazing and I feel sooo grateful and lucky, but it’s also been hard, and stressful and sad AF because naturally, it’s so much easier for the challenges to consume you, and at times for me they really did.
One thing I prioritized through the entire year though, that I know for a fact not only got me through it, but literally brought the blessings to me - was making a conscious decision every single day to do something intentional; no matter how simple or extravagant, big or small, whether it was for 2 minutes or 2 hours, to pour into me, allowing me to create a full toolkit of practices, places, and things to rely on that genuinely make me feel good and attract good shxt. And that’s what The Conscious Collective is all about.
I’ve tried again and again to get back into the swing of things with this space, because I have such a huge passion for personal development. But an even bigger passion to do it with other like-minded women like you to help and encourage you to also create the life you want for yourself - even through the bullshit. So know, running into you beauties and connecting, hearing you TELL me to get back to it sits on my spiritttt and I love you for remembering me for it!
I even filmed podcast episodes for a podcast I’ve been ‘planning’ for over a year, that’s never seen the light of day lol. And I still don’t know when or if it will. But it’s because, transparently, it's just been hard to manage and hard to figure out how to get back to it in a way that feels good for me.
So yea, back to the lesson learned here - GIVE YOURSELF GRACE.
Life has a way of throwing shxt our way that we don’t expect or think we're ready for, but your higher power knows exactly what it’s doing. You can handle this. You're more than capable.
Don’t get caught up in what you don't/wish you had, what you didn’t get done, or what you couldn’t do, or what other people are doing or saying, - accept where you are, create and put plans, practices and boundaries in place to make it happen and make sure you do the things that make you feel good so that you can show up as your best.
Trust the journey chile. Trust your journey, because our next steps are being paved out for us through the bullshxt we’re going through. Do your best, and know that that’s all you can do!
You're exactly where your supposed to be, and it's all serving it's purpose.
You’re more than capable.
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This resonated so deeply, this year has been so heavy!
We often times focus so heavily on what’s going wrong and become discouraged instead of focusing on all the blessings that we have despite the setbacks.