Goodbye, 2025

The Year Before Alignment

2025 tested me, changed me and healed me in ways I never expected.

It wasn’t a gentle year. It asked hard questions and didn’t always wait for answers. It stretched me thin, cracked parts of me open and forced me to sit with discomfort instead of outrunning it. 

It was a year that stripped me down to what was real and asked me to sit there - without rushing, without numbing, without pretending I was okay when I wasn’t. I walked through dark nights of the soul. I released identities that once felt like survival. I rebuilt myself after loss, burnout and moments of deep, quiet self-betrayal. I learned what it truly means to surrender… and then rise. 

There were seasons when I felt undone, when the version of me I had outgrown fought hard to stay alive. When the healing hurt more than the wound itself, but in the breaking, clarity found me and in the stillness, truth spoke.

2025 taught me that endurance is not the same as purpose. It taught me that staying connected should never require abandoning yourself, that peace is not a reward you earn - it’s a responsibility you protect.

I learned the difference between being strong and being honest. I learned that healing isn’t linear and that going back to old feelings doesn’t mean you’ve failed - it means you’re human. I learned how to let go of what I can’t control and how to hold tighter to what truly matters.

2025 became the year I finally chose myself. It was the year I found the courage to walk away from what no longer served me - roles, expectations and attachments that asked me to be smaller, quieter or less than who I truly am. 

Letting go was not easy, but staying would have been a deeper betrayal of self. In choosing to leave, I chose honesty over comfort and alignment over fear. That same courage carried me into unfamiliar territory: starting my own business. It was not just a professional decision, but a declaration of trust in myself - my voice, my vision and my resilience. For the first time, I was not building something to survive, but to reflect who I am.

Through it all, I was reminded of the sacredness of my people. The ones who stayed when I had nothing to offer but honesty, the ones who checked in when I faced surgeries and spent weeks recovering from it, the ones who held space without trying to fix me or asking me to be smaller, the ones who laughed with me, cried with me and believed in me when I couldn’t fully believe in myself, the ones who saw me beneath the survival and loved me anyway. 

My tribe's presence was medicine. Their love was grounding and were proof that I was never meant to carry this alone.

As I close this chapter, I do so with gratitude - not because it was easy, but because it was necessary. 2025 gave me discernment, it gave me depth, it gave me a soul-led standard. I’m saying goodbye with clarity, with softness, with gratitude for every lesson - especially the hard ones.

Now, I Step Into 2026 Differently

2026 is not about becoming more visible. It’s about becoming more aligned.

This chapter of my life is invite only - not because I’m inaccessible, but because I’m no longer available for anything that pulls me away from my soul, my peace or my purpose.

I’ve learned that access is energy and energy is sacred. I am no longer explaining my boundaries to people who benefit from me having none. I am no longer shrinking my truth to stay connected. I am no longer confusing urgency with alignment or endurance with destiny.

This is the year I move with discernment instead of urgency, with faith instead of fear and with intention instead of obligation.

“Invite only” means God-led, not ego-driven. It means I check alignment before I check availability. It means I honour the quiet nudges, the divine pauses, the inner knowing that has never steered me wrong.

In 2026, I choose spaces that feel safe in my body, I choose people who respect my process and I choose work that expands my spirit - not just my schedule.

Peace is no longer something I hope for - it is the minimum requirement.

Goodbye, 2025

Thank you for the lessons, the losses, the love and the becoming. I leave you changed, softened and stronger. Thank you for everything you gave, everything you took and everything you taught me. I’m stepping forward changed, healed in new ways and ready for what’s next.