Happy New Year! (Almost ) I hope wherever you’re reading this from, you’re happy and healthy. I hope this year brought you more healing than hurt. I hope things get easier and you realize how much you matter. Your place in this world cannot be matched and I hope you pick this next year, to stay. ‘You’re doing better than you think.’ It’s okay if you’re going into next year as the same you. I’m going to show up as the same me. 🙂 Progress isn’t contingent on a ball dropping. 🙃 Friendly reminder: The world needs your magic, as do I. 🤟🏻 Thanks for reading 💜 ~A

Finding the calm in the chaos has never been a strong sticking point for me. I STRUGGLED. Like legit struggled every single day to show up, control the narrative and force some sort of outcome. For those of you unfamiliar, that’s a straight up trauma response -!: and… it’s exhausting. Urgency is directly related to the part of the brain trying to heal from trauma. It hurts and we need it to end. There’s full on panic and a race to the finish line until it does. Blast of a shit time, just saying. (Side note: it also never works. Not for this girl at least.) This year was a…