Intro…

I began 2025 in a way I never expected the kind of beginning that breaks a person open. I came into this year with a tired body, a heavy spirit, and a mind full of questions I didn’t yet know how to answer. Returning to work from medical leave, I carried emotional burdens, family concerns, and the ache of wanting something more but now knowing how to reach it. I felt overwhelmed, displaced and unsure of my direction.

But somewhere in the heaviness, I made a choice: I kept moving. I kept breathing. I kept showing up.

What unfolded was not instant transformation, but a slow sacred returning, to my creativity, to my intuition, to my voice, and to the parts of myself I had abandoned. 2025 became the year I jumped without a parachute and landed in my becoming. A year of building, blooming, reclaiming, and awakening. A year that began heavy but is ending undeniably sacred.

This is the story of how I just didn’t grow. I happened to this year

The Year That Began in the Dark

The truth of my 2025 is this: The way I began this year was not easy. In fact, it was the kind of beginning that breaks people open.

I came back to work from medical leave with a body that was still tired and a spirit trying to find the light. I stepped down from a position that drained me physically, emotionally, and mentally, a role that took more that I realized it had. I felt overwhelmed, directionless, and displaced. I was carrying family concerns, emotional burdens and the quiet ache of wanting something more but not knowing how to reach it. I was trying to find my place in the world while the world kept shifting under my feet.

Despite all of this, I chose to just keep swimming.

And then, halfway through the year, I did something I has spoken of for so long. I moved away from my family into my own place. I didn’t step gently out of my comfort zone. I jumped out of an airplane with no parachute.

I didn’t tiptoe. I didn’t wait for permission. I didn’t slowly step back or ease my way out.

The Leap that Changed Everything

I leapt into the unknown, into a version of myself that scared me and called to me at the same time. And look where the leap landed me :

• A blog with 20 + soul rich posts
• A growing community of readers
• A Pinterest presence that is thriving
• A creative voice that is clearer and bolder
• Tea recipes, affirmation decks and visual art blooming
• A sense of home within myself
• A rhythm that finally fits my spirit
• A devotion plan that is transforming me
• A consistency I once believed I didn’t have
• A year that began heavy but is ending sacred

I just didn’t grow. I transformed. I re-rooted. I reclaimed. I awakened. This year didn’t happen to me. I happened to this year. 2025 became the year:

• I returned to myself
• Trusted my voice
• Healed another layer of my story
• Built the foundation of my creative empire
• Stopped hiding my gifts
• Followed my intuition
• Reclaimed my joy
• Faced fear and walked right throught it
• Finally chose me

As I write these final words, I can feel the truth of this year vibrating through every part of me. The signs the synchronicities, the repeating numbers, none of this coincidence. They are confirmations, reflections of a woman who finally aligned with her own frequency. This journey was never about becoming someone new but remembering the woman I have always been. A woman brave enough to leap, steady enough to rise and tender enough to feel it all. If 2025 taught me anything, it’s that the universe doesn’t speak to those who wait, it speaks to those who choose themselves. And this year, I finally did. I gave myself a chance. And everything changed.

I didn’t wait for permission. I chose myself, leapt into my becoming and returned to the woman I was always meant to be.

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🌻Serenity