A Year of Voice, Roots, and Becoming

Practice gratitude. Practice it daily. Name and give thanks for the blessings that hold up your life, the blessings you receive, the blessings you offer your world. Hiro Boga 

As this year folds itself gently into the next, I find myself returning to the same truth that has carried me through every season of 2025: growth doesn’t always look like movement. Sometimes it looks like staying. Sometimes it looks like choosing the slower rhythm, the deeper breath, the more honest answer.

This year asked me to be rooted — not in perfection, not in performance, but in presence. And as I wrote my way through each lesson, each discomfort, each small joy, I realised that reflection is not a luxury. It’s a practice of remembering who we are becoming.

So as you close your own year, I invite you to pause with me. To look back with softness. To look forward with intention. And to honour the quiet ways you kept showing up for yourself.

Five Rooted Reflection Questions for Closing 2025

1. Where did I choose rootedness over rushing this year, and what shifted in me because of that choice?

2. What truth about myself became impossible to ignore in 2025, and how did I honour it?

3. In what moments did consistency become a form of self-love rather than self-pressure?

4. What did I release this year — a habit, a belief, a coping mechanism — that made space for a more grounded version of me?

5. How did I use my voice this year in a way that felt true, brave, or newly aligned?

As you step into the new year, carry only what feels true. Leave the rest with gratitude. You don’t need to rush into becoming; you’re already unfolding in the right direction.
May your roots deepen.
May your voice steady.
May your choices honour the person you’re growing into.
And may you continue to meet yourself — gently, bravely, and with the kind of honesty that transforms everything it touches.

Peace and Blessings