You know that I’m all about the celebrating (and we’ll get to that, I promise)…and yet being human involves regrets, unfinished business, challenges, and other less than ideal stuff.

Ergo…we need to let that shizz GO. 

I know we’ve all got at least 20 things on that list from 2022—I definitely do too!—so get out a piece of paper and write ‘em down. Acknowledge it and mourn it so you can let it GO!

Your mission: list at least 20 things that you regret or are bummed out about from 2022. (Write more if you’ve got ’em.)

Write a paragraph for each one about what you would have wanted and what it means to you.

And at the end of each paragraph (note: this is very very important), write: AND I LET IT GO...

So you can let it go, and create room for the awesomeness to ensue in 2023!

Prong 2: CELEBRATE! (Of course!)

Now that you’ve started to let go of the ick from last year, you’ve got room to truly and deeply CELEBRATE whatever awesomeness that happened in 2022. Phew!

Because even though there were lots of challenging things in 2022, there was immense awesomeness too. I KNOW THERE WAS!

Relationships. Money. Career. Health. Love. Achieved desires. Connecting with people you care about. Creativity. Social life…and everything else.

Your mission: List at LEAST 20 things that you want to celebrate from last year! I KNOW you can do it…and you can probably note even more than that!

Read through everything you’ve written down. EVERYTHING. And when you’ve done that, say to yourself…

“I celebrate that all of this awesomeness happened in my own life and my world.”

Really take a moment and pause to honor that. Because it’s true. It’s SO TRUE. All of that awesomeness happened in your life and in your world, and honey, it is WORTHY OF HONORING.

Breathe in the awesomeness. I mean, YOUR awesomeness, so you can be ready to…

Prong 3: DREAM!!!!!!

How do you let yourself dream?

Take some time and space over this weekend, get out your journal or some paper and ponder these questions:

~ What do you want for your life this year?
~ How do you want to feel?
~ Did you desire something last year and it didn’t happen? Well, maybe you still desire it for 2023!

No dream or desire is too big or too small…it just has to be YOURS!

This is where you create your intentions and your roadmap for this year, so give yourself the time and the space to deeply go inward and consider.

NOTE: Do. Not. Worry. About. “How.” Just allow yourself to desire and dream!

Most of all, let yourself have fun with this!  If it starts to feel not-fun or it’s anxiety producing to write down your dreams, take pause. Jump around, listen to some energizing music, drink some water. Celebrate a few more times, and THEN come back to desiring and dreaming!

And that’s how it works!  Now you know what you want for this year, so you can figure out how to make that happen.

If any of this is hard or you want to go deeper, I'm doing a virtual retreat so we can work through all the everything that was 2022 and create a (hopefully) better 2023. 

It's called RELEASING 2022, and it's about letting go of what we need to let go of and celebrating what we need to celebrate, in order to heal and move forward. 

I'll share rituals and processes for celebrating, letting go, grieving, uncovering desires, and more!

It's on Saturday, January 15th, 12pm-3pm EST/9am-12pm PST, and if you can't make that time, you'll get access to the recording and all the materials. 

Also: it's sliding scale, because I want it to be as accessible as possible.

Learn more about the retreat and enroll at releasing2022.wordpress.com.

If you have any questions about the retreat, please don't hesitate to reach out!

It is SO GOOD, and I go even deeper into these three prongs, and more awesomeness happens too!

Wishing you an incredible, abundant, safe, healthy, and joyful 2023!

 xoxo

Fave photo corner

Instead of one photo, I'm sharing what Instagram has decided are my top 9 photos from 2022. 



Photo locations, starting at top left: 

~ Grand Marais, Minnesota; Grand Portage Anishinaabe Nation
~ Saugerties, NY, Esopus Nation
~ Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park, WA; Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S'Klallam, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Skokomish, Quinault, Hoh, Quileute, and Makah Nations
~ Robert Moses State Park, Fire Island, NY; Unkechaug, Secatogue, and Shinnecock Nations
~ Cape Disappointment, Washington; Chinook Nation
~ Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, WY; Kiowa, Blackfeet, Cayuse, Coeur d'Alene, Shoshone, Nez Perce, Lakota, Crow Nations
Planting Fields Arboretum, Long Island, NY; Setauket Nation 
~ Hawk Falls, Hickory Run State Park, PA; Lenape, Susquehannock, and the Iroquois Nations
~ Robert Moses State Park, Fire Island, NY; Unkechaug, Secatogue, and Shinnecock Nations