If you have been reading my emails for a while, you know I love rituals, especially the end of year/ New year one.
You might have read before about my letters written to the year that has just passed and the letter to the new one. This year I have added a new layer to my letters.
For the year that has just passed, I am not only writing about what I leave behind and celebrating all the good but I have added a list of the things I forgive myself for. We tend to be SO hard on ourselves. So I am taking some time to acknowledge my mistakes and my fears, letting them out of my body and onto paper. I am allowing myself to forgive and let go. I am choosing not to carry that energy with me into the new year. And this has been amazing!
As for the new year I am not going filled with intentions and a thousand goals but more with a decision on how I want to feel and a list of a few things that I choose to give time and space to. Things that are really important to me and my happiness. Not to please anybody but just to fill my heart fully.
Life is short, it is happening now and I am more conscious of this now more than ever. So all I want to keep top of mind in 2023 is that experiencing joy day to day is incredibly important to me. That might look different come February, so for now, I have clarity on a few things for January and then I will allow myself to flow with how the year is going.
I have a tendency to over-plan and be inflexible. So I have chosen to be more in the present and let life and joy flow more freely.
I hope my ritual has inspired some ideas for you on how to start 2023.
I would like to wish you an incredible year, where you choose to make yourself and your happiness a priority. I trust you will choose to bring more of yourself into how you show up every day because remember that is your superpower.
Lots of love
Alba x