Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five......

Step in 2025 with grace, glow and goals. Cheers to our dreams!

Shakespeare wrote that "time goes very slow for those who wait. Very fast for those who are scared. Very long for those who lament. Very short for those who celebrate. But for those who love, time is eternal."

I know several people who will look back at tremendous year of accomplishments, myself included. But there are those of you who simply are thankful you took each day at a time. Things don't always turn out as you planned, or the way you think they should. Things can go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. Some broken things stay broken. But if you feel broken or think you have a broken heart, you are NOT broken. If you can still get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, your life is not broken.

It may be broken dreams, but not a broken future.

I wish for you to seize loveliness. It has always been yours. Know this, you can be content with small steps. That's all life is. Small steps that you take every day so when you look back down the road, it all adds up and you know you covered some distance. It is very true. You just need to wait. Have patience. Be still. Nothing protects the heart like patience. You don't get your hopes too fast and you don't let fear speak too loud.

For me, what a year. I have a truly incredible life. I could count every moment with a smile that stretches from ear to ear. If life is repeated a thousand times, still mine, mine, and again, mine. I wish you to look back upon yours and share the same sentiment. Thank you 2024, I totally rocked those 366 days.

So as this year closes, my wish for you is to create a new chapter with the best for YOU. This is the beginning of anything you want. Happy New Dreams. Happy New Days. Happy New Desires. Happy New Ways. Happy New Year. Happy New You. I hope somewhere in this new year, you surprise yourself!

I know exactly what I want. What an honor and privilege to live my life. Rich beyond my dreams. Rich in adventure. Rich in health. Rich in laughter. Rich in family. Rich in love. Rich in my successes. 2025 I am coming for you. We are elevating our game babydoll. I am very much looking forward to kissing my person who thinks I am wonderful. Happy New Year's Eve my sweet peas ♥

Readiness

Love finds you when you're ready to receive it.

Said goodbye to birthday month and well hello to Fallorado. Birthdays tend to force me to know how to be solitary because as we know I thrive off people's energy as an extrovert. The art of loving is central when we can be alone and we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

During my birthday month, I always partake in a ritual of reminding myself to do reflection on my character and who I have become over the year. I am so very lucky to have incredible people hold me accountable as well as my own sense of personal responsibility. The beautiful souls that surround me are cut from the same cloth, one that is uniquely special and custom fabric of integrity and deep caring love.

When we think of toxic relationships, we think the worse. Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are toxic to our being simply because of their needs and way of existing in the world force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren't inherently bad people, but they aren't the right people for us. And as hard as it is, we have to let them go. Life is hard enough without being around people who bring you down, and as much as you care, you can't destroy yourself for the sake of someone else.

You have to make your well-being a priority. Whether that means breaking up with someone you care deeply about, loving a family member from a distance, letting go of a friend, or removing yourself from a situation that feels painful. You have every right to leave and create a safer space for yourself. You are not weak because your heart feels so heavy. The thing is that they needed to happen to you so that you can gain balance with yourself.

Never be ashamed of how much you love or how quickly you fall. Love fully, love completely. Most importantly, love naturally and don't you ever apologize for it. Don't ever be sorry for loving the way your heart knows.

Sometimes people walk away from love because it is so beautiful that it terrifies them. Sometimes they leave because the connection shines a bright light on their dark places and they are not ready to work them through. Sometimes they run away because they are not developmentally prepared to merge with another; they have more individuation work to do first. Sometimes they take off because love is not a priority in their lives; they have another path and purpose to walk first. Sometimes they end it because they prefer a relationship that is more practical than conscious, one that does not threaten the ways that they organize reality.

Because so many of us carry shame, we have a tendency to personalize love’s leavings, triggered by the rejection and feelings of abandonment. This is not always true. Sometimes it has nothing to do with us. Sometimes the one who leaves is just not ready to hold it safe. Sometimes they know something we don’t; they know their limits at that moment in time. Real love is about receiving. Readiness is everything.

• Crush on life and it will love you back tenfolds. Anchor in love with infinite possibilities.

• Location: San Clemente Pier l San Clemente, CA

You will come into each other's lives at the exact moment when we are ready. In the right space, you will be heard without shouting. You will be seen without showing your wounds. You will be understood without changing who you are. You can be yourself without any need to alter you.

From that moment, it is just you and him with infinite possibilities... the future ahead of us.

Grounded by dreams and reality, our life and love flows effortlessly, always gentle, always strong, and moving forward. Together we are anchored in love and present in the moment ♥

Partings

Truthfully I could go back and do everything differently.

That's for you to decide. You can decide which parts of you are worth keeping. This is the most important part. Take your time. Pay attention. The easy part is over. You can go slow. You can stay down for as long as you need to.

• I go where I am loved and bring love to where I go.

• Location: London Eye l London, England

You cannot heal what you hide. You cannot heal what you ignore. You cannot heal what you cover. You cannot heal what you avoid.

Turning the page, this part is much longer. It's the healing. The comeback and the birth of the new you. And it is not easy. You have to be all in.

For me, it took two years. I left so much of myself behind. All the parts that I outgrew. It meant not making myself small. Not bending to fit where I don't belong anymore. The feeling of not belonging is a sign that you are supposed to be somewhere else, doing something different. Let it push you. Let it shove you. Let it force you onto a new path.

Take on the messy work and come out on top, still smiling, still strong. I am still a warm and gentle soul with a heart of gold willing to help anyone. Observe what everyone else is doing, but not absorb it. Love people but don't depend on their love. Want people and things but do not need them. Feel everything fully but not dwell. This is the part of my life where I add people who love me, replenish me, bring me peace and claps for my growth. I am not sorry for the time it took to learn my worth.

I am completely whole. My heart is whole. My soul is whole.

I am here. I am me. Comfortable in my own skin. I earned it. I decide what I am worth. I celebrate me. I live life a bit more selfishly. Pursue my own passions more courageously. People love you because you are you. Exactly as you are right now. Not for some version they hope you'll be one day. There is more road behind me than ahead. I intend to make every step as beautiful and peaceful as possible. Just the best of me.

Then he walks in, guiding me toward a fresh beginning. I love you. Thank you for being here ♥