Happy new year to all!

I’m not much of a new year’s resolutions person. I used to be, but I found that focusing too much on specific goals kept me from seeing other areas of growth, change, and progress. At this point, I choose to simply invite what I’d like into my life and find ways to make those happen to the extent I’m able along the way. After all, not everything is within my control, but if I’m open to seeing the areas that are instead of the ones that are not, I find amazing things can happen.

I invite change this year because so much does need to change in my life at present. Some of those things are not within my control for the time being. Some are, but I need to learn some new skills first to better enact that change. Some are solidly within my control, and what I need most is to learn to stop getting in my own way. Change can be an amazing thing, and I’m hoping for a lot of it this year.

Peace! What an elusive force it is in my experience. I’ve craved it my whole life and yet never really found it. In 2024, I started carefully cultivating small moments of peace and making changes to make room for more peace in my life. I had some success. I’d really like to build on that success. Like the antidote to negativity is warmth, the antidote to a lot of my struggles is a few peaceful moments every single day.

Abundance is a word that I love because it truly comes in many forms. You can have financial success and abundance, of course, and who wouldn’t love a bit more of that in their life? There’s also having an abundance of love and support, an abundance of resources, and abundant success in other areas. I will take abundance in any form with gratitude. Paying my abundance forward is also extremely important to me.

If I dared one more invitation, it would be for wellness. I know that being chronically ill, I’ll never have the same wellness of a healthy person, but there are many kinds of wellness: mental, emotional, spiritual, social, etc. I would welcome improved physical wellness as well, and I feel I could do a lot of good with that for myself and others, but I’m aware that may not be in the cards this year.

I hope that you have a gentle 2025, dearest reader, and that you see some of the things you’d love most come to life.