For me, 2024 included mystery, grief, rage, anxiety, and depression.
It also encompassed new beginnings, deep healing, career and personal growth, extraordinary connections, fun adventures, and deep-hearted love.
Our lives are full spectrum, after all.
Good and bad, joyful and tender, beautiful and challenging—it matters that we honor this past year.
Because equally as important as setting goals and New Year intentions—so too is reflecting and appreciating all that was. It’s how we learn, realize what we value, and identify what we want more (and less) of in 2025.
What events, experiences, relationships, breakthroughs, and transformations are you honoring, celebrating, learning, and growing from?
If you feel inspired to reflect on your 2024—I invite you to meditate on your most alive memories, review your personal and work calendar, re-read your journals, scroll your social media posts, or peruse your camera roll.
Then, write down some (or 24) highlights that encompassed your 2024 for a powerful and reflective, illuminating practice.
Mine looks like this; I …
- Sold off ¾ of my possessions, put the rest in storage, and uprooted my life from the USA for a slower-paced life in Southern Europe
- Did allllllll the necessary bureaucracy to get my Portuguese residency + tax benefits
- Lived 11 out of the 12 months, nomadically
- Deepened with my Boo, beyond what I could have imagined what was possible in a long distance relationship
- Began to understand, have compassion for, and started to heal my attachment system—shifting from anxious towards secure
- Worked with and benefitted from a couple’s therapist—my first time, ever
- Grieved, grieved, grieved
- Raged, raged, raged
- Turned 50 … in Barcelona!
- Got certified as a Master Sacred Depths Coach
- Worked with a new business coach to launch: Leading with Love Coaching, LLC
- More than doubled my coaching income from the year before
- Chose Setubal—a quaint fisherman’s city just South of Lisboa—as my home-base
- Bought my first house, ever—in Portugal!
- Celebrated multiple holidays with my blood family in Florida
- Started a new dance practice: Biodanza
- Got to know, love, and have compassion for some dark, young, and shadow-y parts of me
- Made friends from other countries and learned about their cultures
- Made a new bestie in my new hometown, and stayed connected with my old bestie from my old hometown
- Had an exquisite repair conversation with another bestie after a 4+ year break
- Enjoyed precious in person coaching client sessions
- Endured the most difficult symptoms of peri-menopause
- Said yes to Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Visited castles, rivers, remote beaches, intentional communities, lighthouses, medieval cities, a chapel of bones, and far-away rural villages
How about you?
What are some of your gems from 2024 that you want to name?
As always, I would love to hear from you! You’re invited to send me a message with your list of 24 in ‘24—including your highs and lows.
All is welcome. It is a new year, after all!