🌟 My word of 2024 🌿✨

Embracing "Balance" as my guiding light for 2024

Happy New Year everyone ✨

For the last few years I have started with a word of the year - my guiding light for the year.

This year the word Balance found its way into my heart. Which really surprised me because I've always been drawn to life's extremes.

When I look back on my twenties it was so many big swings. When I got into running, it was very quickly ultra running. With meditation it was back to back month long silent retreats. I swung vegan to paleo overnight. Hardcover raver to sober person. City dweller to country bumpkin.

In many ways this has been a beautiful journey, because I've touched so many edges. But it's also been exhausting. And the undercurrent was this restless searching for "the thing".

Now, as I approach my 37th trip around the sun, everything feels quieter, simpler and lower to the ground. There's a quiet contentedness, that just feels.. enough.

As I think about my role in my family as mama, and in our village of families as honorary aunty to lots of little wildlings - there's a rootedness and a groundedness that is part of my essence (Capricorn goat over here 🐐) that is really being called forth in service to our community ecosystem.

And in an increasingly polarized world, I'm compelled to continue to bring forth balanced perspectives. To nurture harmony, and remember that co-existence across lines of difference is achievable.

So "balance" emerged as a beautiful and natural intention for me this year.

For me cultivating balance in my own life looks like (amongst other things)

🥗 🍗 a balanced omnivorous diet with lots of animal products, and lots of fruits and veggies, and carbs and cakes and basically all the things.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 balancing all areas of my life - family, work, friendships, passions, service all attended to.

🌿 time in nature and with animals.

🦮 walks with my dog without my phone.

📈 continuing to consciously evolve myself and my life while also resting back into all that I already have and am.

🌍 working to contribute to our collective evolution while acknowledging and celebrating all that we already are.

🧚🏽‍♀️ surrounding myself with people from different walks of lives and backgrounds.

📺 intentionally balancing the media I consume to understand and genuinely consider multiple perspectives.

🔥 evenings spent singing and praying round the fire with friends and evenings alone in bed watching trashy TV.

As I step into this year, I feel rooted in this centering space and I'm so honoured to continue sharing and connecting with all of you. Your presence here means the world. 🌍💫

Love,

Holiday

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Coming up..

I have started the year super organised and committed to releasing consistent and good content! So here’s what’s coming up in the next week or so.

✨ a follow up to my last essay Silence, Violence and the death of Civil Discourse called “When Justice gets personal”

✨ a re-introduction to my work and all the ways to work with me in 2024

✨ a super funny (I think!) spoken word poem I wrote about about sales

✨ an invitation and special discount code to Human Work: The Remembrance, a 4 day / 3 night training, in the heart of northern England, I am co-leading.