Celebrating YOU: Year End Celebration
I have recently returned from a deeply grounding retreat experience in Maui, hosted by the amazing healer and coach Molly Davis Moon. I am still settling into the new meanings and messages that are unfolding from the experience. It was a sacred space with an amazing group of women. The experience has me reflecting on the upcoming new year and how I want to flow into it. I hope this short blog post + exercise gives you a moment for pause in your own life. You deserve it. You, who rallies around others. You, who serves others. I invite you to make some space for yourself… So, here we go…
The holidays and the turning of a new year land differently for each of us. Some arrive as if they’ve been launched out of a cannon, full of momentum and resolve. Others tiptoe across the threshold quietly, with tenderness, uncertainty, or hesitation.
This is the messy beauty of being human. Sorrow and sadness live alongside joy and connection, and somehow they make the moments of light feel more vivid and more precious.
The longer I walk this earth, the clearer it becomes that what stays with me is not the material things. It isn’t the boxes I checked off or the lists I carefully curated throughout the year. What lingers instead are the moments of meaning, the relationships, and the ways I showed up for myself and others.
As I move into the new year, I let go of the pressure to set big, rigid goals. That doesn’t mean I abandon planning or intention. I still engage in thoughtful business planning. What I no longer do is measure my worth by arbitrary markers or hold myself to harsh expectations like losing a certain number of pounds in a fixed amount of time.
Instead, I choose to focus on what I want to celebrate about myself and what I feel deeply grateful for. In the most challenging moments, those celebrations and acknowledgments become a quiet source of fuel, gently reminding me of who I am, where I have been, and what truly matters.
I do welcome intentions. In our family, we have a simple and meaningful practice. We gather by candlelight and name what we are grateful for in one another. At the close of the ritual, each of us sets an intention to guide the year ahead. It is not a checklist or a lofty goal, but an invitation to sink more deeply into ourselves and into what feels true. I highly recommend this practice, or creating one that feels right for you.
As you move into the new year, I invite you to pause and reflect. What stands out for you? What are you most grateful for? What would you like to celebrate about how you showed up this past year?
If you would like support in leaning into this season of reflection, I invite you to use this free resource I created just for you.
If you would like the Celebrating YOU! Handout, please download it is free (and no strings attached) HERE. Click either hyperlink for the FREE resources page and then choose the button “Celebrating YOU!” for the download.
If you would like to process the exercise with me, I invite you to book a FREE 45-Minute Discovery Call.
