Courtney Hope Instagram – This year was weird, jolting and absolutely beautiful. My words moving into 2024 were growth, expansion, and peace. And while those are seemingly positive words, I didn’t factor in that they would come with a lot of grief, stretching, and redirecting to achieve these things.
I spent a huge majority of this year feeling like I was watching myself and my immediate world as a fly on the wall, with no attachment to all I thought I knew and was. My brain and memory literally stopped working for a couple months and I was removed from my body. It was strange and scary, and I would be lying if I said I wasn’t concerned and scrambling in moments. As someone in touch with my body and feelings, losing that to burnout was wildly terrifying. Some challenges happened that kept trying to shake my grounding and my faith, but they didn’t prevail! It was confusing, but I ultimately decided I was being given an opportunity to awaken and start from scratch in choosing who I wanted to be and what I wanted to stand for. I could drown or remember how much I love to and trust myself to swim, which I see now was the whole lesson 🙂. I’ve never spent so much time alone and I finally began to love myself and others as I always wanted to.
I had INCREDIBLE moments too, life long dreams realized, and was gifted deeper relationships and understandings of where I am and where I am headed. I can now say I am surrounded by my people and have a crystal clear vision of what I am meant to do. I have a peace that is becoming unshakable and a joy that radiates from my core and for that I am grateful.
I say all this to acknowledge that sometimes we pursue positive things but fail to recognize that we must be washed clean of all that holds us back from those visions. The challenges of dismantling may seem to be moving us farther away from our desired outcome, but they serve a purpose in preparing us to move closer.
No matter how your year treated you, I hope it was an adventure that brought you to a more honest and authentic version of yourself.
Enjoy the exploration for the treasure on the other side is priceless.
Here’s to a powerful and fantastic year 🍾
What were your words for 2024? | Posted on 01/Jan/2025 00:33:44
