Happy New Year to you all, my darling readers and tribe. I trust that you had an amazing festive season filled with loved ones, vibrant high vibe food, lots of movement (dancing very much included) and sunshine. Here in West Aus, we were treated with incredible Summer days and brilliant balmy evenings. ‘Good for the soul’ kind of vibes all round.

Twenty sixteen. Ripe with possibility and overflowing with positive intent and global change. Can’t you just feel it?

In truth, the first few days of 2016 have been some of the most challenging of my very blessed little life, but with these new experiences and sensations comes lessons a plenty and renewed hope. I asked for help and was granted it – by friends and family alike, and my big ole Universal safety net.

The first few mornings of this year had me in tears, flummoxed at my situation and how I came to be in such an unfamiliar space (physically, mentally, emotionally) and left me with no other option than to literally get on my knees and pray. I prayed to God//the Universe//my higher self to help me, to guide me to where I needed to be this year and to support my highest purpose. I don’t know if it was divinely guided support granted from my plea, or the cumulative efforts of all of my nearest and dearest, but something certainly shifted within me and I have been pulled out of that negative little vortex that left me feeling shattered and alone. I was so stuck in a fear based mindset, something that I had worked so hard to reduce in 2015, but that creeps up unsuspectingly on even the stealthiest of minds.  Things that once instilled a sense of excitement and eager anticipation, actually felt more like a doomful and terrifying unknown. I wanted to curl up and close the door on my plans, and just surrender to a safe, sturdy (albeit uneventful) little life.  I felt like who I was starting the year as wasn’t good enough and therefore I needed to make drastic changes to myself, my life and my everything until ‘someone’ deemed me//it ‘good enough’.

Hold the fucking phone. When did we EVER allow ourselves to buy into the idea that we are flawed or imperfect? Because the truth is, we will never please everyone. We will never be perfect, because ‘perfection’ in its literal sense is an illusion. We, when we allow ourselves to get caught up in the vicious cycle of comparison, will always have less than someone else (but we will also always be a lot more fortunate too). Why does that matter? The people who are brought into our lives, either serendipitously (if you’re a spiritual//cosmic believing junkie like me) or coincidentally – will adore us exactly as we are. I am a big ball of crazy and a mash of contradictions – and my incredible support network LOVE me for that. Those who aren’t really for me – and aren’t my energetic match – don’t dig it so much. And that’s ok. When your relationships (either romantic or platonic) are right – there is a sense of ease and flow, of total acceptance, and pure unconditional love.

I have always been appreciative of my relationships and choose wisely when it comes to who I tether my soul to. I have been so unbelievably blessed to have met my ‘crew’ so young and to have found people who just get me, accept me and love me so profoundly. But this sense of gratitude and appreciation has recently crescendo-ed to an absolute ‘HOW THE FUCK DID I GET SO LUCKY?!’ kind of feeling. So resolution number one for 2016 is ‘to never stop showing and telling my loved ones, just how much I adore them and to prioritise quality time with these quality people’.

My New Year’s resolutions, for the past few years at least, have definitely had a more connected, less material, spiritual, heart centered vibe than in years past where I would pledge weight loss, getting a boyfriend, earning more money etc. I have always tried to focus on what resolutions with enhance my soul growth and my core desire to somehow contribute to the greater good//global consciousness. So that’s what I’m a-do this year.

It’s very easy to get caught up in the crazy hooplah of New Years with its frenetic pace and ripe promises of transformation and change. Which, don’t get me wrong, it’s a powerful and potent energy that can serve as an amazing catalyst for upward momentum. BUT it can also be a little overwhelming and can leave us unsatisfied with where we are at. Uh uh, that ain’t good. Where we are is perfect and where we will go, is just as perfect. We need to remind ourselves, before putting our gung ho ambition pants on, that in every moment every single one of us are doing our very best, and that every step within our journey is vital (even the set backs and rock bottoms). Life is deliciously messy, and unpredictable, and inspiring, and terrifying.  It’s all the colours of the rainbow splattered on a canvas.

So, baby, what big dreams and ambitions does 2016 have in store for you?

Blessings and big plans x