Mental Health 2 years ago My 2023 Intention
Happy New Year everyone!
Let’s try things different, shall we?
There’s a collective “burn out” happening right now and I am feeling it too. I recently posted “How I Do It All” where I slightly touched upon my own personal burn out. However, I didn’t really dive into the realness behind why I believe it happened. In my post I explain how I signed up for more than I should have in 2022, but why? Were we making up for “lost time” post Covid? Were we revenge traveling, working, parenting and socializing more than before or did we just feel it differently?
Whatever the reason, it seems as though everyone I know is feeling it. I find solace knowing that we’re all in this together. After all, where are we all rushing to be? What are we rushing to do?
This post will not include a list of resolutions or goals I will set for myself, rather a guidebook and reminder of where I am today and where I want to be in a year from now. To be honest, I would be perfectly happy to be exactly where I am sitting in this moment, emotionally, physically and spiritually in one year from now. I say this because I have not felt this clear probably ever before. However, life moves, shifts and changes and I know that with every breath I am given and take there will be an opportunity for me to be more present and grow. What fun would life be if we didn’t change?
I wasn’t really inspired to write this post until I saw my favorite fashion gal, LSD, post her new stylish 2023 agenda on Instagram. I immediately ordered one for myself with my word of the year on the front. I want to use this agenda as anything but an agenda at all, yet a daily log of my inner well being. My thoughts, my reflections and use it as a guidebook to remind me of my intention for the year.
My word of the year is “soften.”
I have started to say it to myself all the time: Soften my words, my touch, my breath, my approach, determination, hard headedness, even my snuggles with my children. I need to soften around the hard edges that I have built up around myself for nearly 40 years of survival. Without realizing it, I have been operating in a full state of fight or flight since I can remember. It doesn’t matter when my fight or flight mode began, but it matters where it ends.
With every single thing that I do this year, I will approach it with my word, “soften.” Outside of this, I guess I could muster up a few more things that I hope to achieve but for the first time in a very long time I do not have a list and I really don’t want to make one. For years I have been dreaming up big picture things that I’ve wanted to do. Whether it was traveling to new countries, writing a book or launching a new brand, I was constantly focused on what was next instead of what was right infant of me.
This is the year I do less. This is the year I will receive more. This is the year I will soften.
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