As I’ve stepped back these first few days of 2024, I’ve really begun to notice how much risk I did take in 2023. Now here, at the starting gate of 2024, I’m actually feeling hopeful maybe for the first time in my life about myself. In hindsight, the part that I notice that was quieter last year - finally - was the voice (part) that says “everybody else can achieve happiness/fame/success, etc., and have what they want, but not me”. It turns out that there’s another part that does understand the value of simply putting one foot in front of the other, and taking small, manageable, sometimes uncertain (but that’s becoming ok, thank goodness) steps towards what I want to achieve and manifest. For so long I wanted to be someone other than myself. In 2023, I found myself really getting into the joy of
being…me. What a relief. I mean, truly. Thank you, Lissa, for creating this space with your Substack for giving folks like me the opportunity to reflect on what’s meaningful in our own lives. For me, part of what’s meaningful is not dying with the same stuck wounds I’ve lived with for so many decades.
Here’s to a deepening and relaxing-into-more-parts-of-myself 2024!
As I’ve stepped back these first few days of 2024, I’ve really begun to notice how much risk I did take in 2023. Now here, at the starting gate of 2024, I’m actually feeling hopeful maybe for the first time in my life about myself. In hindsight, the part that I notice that was quieter last year - finally - was the voice (part) that says “everybody else can achieve happiness/fame/success, etc., and have what they want, but not me”. It turns out that there’s another part that does understand the value of simply putting one foot in front of the other, and taking small, manageable, sometimes uncertain (but that’s becoming ok, thank goodness) steps towards what I want to achieve and manifest. For so long I wanted to be someone other than myself. In 2023, I found myself really getting into the joy of
being…me. What a relief. I mean, truly. Thank you, Lissa, for creating this space with your Substack for giving folks like me the opportunity to reflect on what’s meaningful in our own lives. For me, part of what’s meaningful is not dying with the same stuck wounds I’ve lived with for so many decades.
Here’s to a deepening and relaxing-into-more-parts-of-myself 2024!