Get Excited: An Adventure in Self-Discovery

Hi Friend, 

I’ve thought a lot about what I wanted this week’s newsletter, the first of the year (2025), to be about. I thought about choose yourself, pause in the middle, get focused, get excited — all topics that have come up for me over the past few weeks. That’s not to say I won’t come back to them. However, when I finally sat down to write this week’s newsletter, I couldn’t help but feel excited about it. Excited about this week, this year, about all that is to come and what I get to do differently.  

This year I’m committing to 42 newsletters. Not quite one a week because this year I’m focusing on “choosing myself”. This means that I’ll need time to manage life’s happenings as they come up. I’ll want to take a real vacation (one where I don’t berate myself for not pulling out my laptop). And I’ll need to work on letting go of expectations — my own and the expectations of others. And while the act of truly choosing me is terrifying, I’m also very excited about it. It’s a turning point - an opportunity to put the last 18 months of deep inner work into practice. And the Universe, God, Spirit, Source, the All of Everything has already started dealing me cards that are making my heart race. I have to what?! Already?! Okay…bring it!

This year is not going to be perfect. It is going to be filled with loss and joy, hope and fear, love and sadness and there is more than enough grief I still need to work through. It will be filled with life; opportunities to practice being the person I want to be, and love. I get to keep learning how to love - me, others, the world. There will be chances to connect, to meet new people, explore new places (and old ones, too), to let go of old concepts and build new paradigms. 

I’m looking at this year through a new set of lenses. I used to think that if I got all of my proverbial crap together I would find this mythical plateau where I could rest, relax and enjoy the rest of my life. (Insert slightly manic laughter.) I know now, on this side of things, that life is more like a river. It keeps flowing until we’re done, and all along the way there will be white knuckle rapids and calm eddies, rushing currents and trickling creeks, and my job is not just to hang on, but to take it all in - the things that scare me and the things that make me sad and let it transform me into the woman I get to be all along the way. 

I’m looking forward to this new and varied pace, a new level of acceptance, and I hope you’ll join me along the way. So, I’m excited to be doing this thing…wanna come?

Lots of love,

Christine