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0:01 Hello friends. It's been a while since I sent a newsletter. I think it's been since May, and I didn't want to let 2024 end without coming and saying hello.
0:22 And I actually wrote a blog post this morning that I'll share in a link below that has some thoughts and resources that have been keeping me going over the past many months that I haven't been in much touch.
0:38 So I hope that that is helpful. And I also wanted to share, you know, part of what happened over the summer is that I'm now in a two-income family again and that I had some space to not push as hard with my business and I took it.
0:59 And so I've really just been resting and reconnecting with myself. I've been taking care of my health. I got glasses.
1:07 Um, yeah, being in community, traveling, a lot of things that took me away from the computer, gladly.
1:18 And, you know, I also am really sitting with the fact that, yeah, just, like, being online as a substitute for real one-to-one connection
1:38 is just feeling less and less like it makes sense to me. And so I've tried to make this a space that feels different and smaller and more intimate. But I think I'm wanting something even more intimate and smaller.
1:57 And so that's something I'm really thinking about for next year and I'll share with all of you and I hope maybe we can do something together along those lines.
2:12 And, yeah, I think just to say a little bit about what that might look like or what I'm excited about, one thing I will, I do want to share with you all because it does feel good is that I, you know, I'm landing on my intention for next year and it feels really clear inside of me that it's “awakening wisdom.”
2:29 And thinking about how do we do that, how do we awaken our own wisdom, our collective wisdom, the wisdom of the earth.
2:41 To me, at least for me, it feels like it happens in group, it feels like it happens in connection to nature in some way. It feels like it happens through the whole physical body and system and energetic system, not just through the mind.
2:59 Yeah, and then it happens in relationship in, like, the growing of real, close-knit relationships that can only be grown, I think, in a smaller number and scale than we've been
3:14 taught to think about over the past couple of decades. And so, I'm starting to ponder what some kind of, maybe like a monthly zoom gathering, or what's, you know, in my world has been called, like, a wisdom circle, what it would look like for me to create or hold something like that?
3:36 And that's as far as I know. There's a lot of different ideas and things that could be brought in, and ways to collaborate, things like that.
3:47 But that's kind of the, that's the seed of the idea. And the part of the intention for that group being to really look at the reality of the changes that are happening all around us. That this really, does feel like a breakdown-breakthrough moment of a lot of things ending.
4:08 Of a way of life, of worlds, of our expectations of things ending in really big ways, sometimes scary ways. Um, but that, that can also open up space for something new to be created. And the only way I think that humans have ever created something new is in close-knit trusting groups of people, wise people.
4:27 And so I want to do my small part to make sure that what we're creating out of this ending
4:35 is something that we want to step into. So, yeah, I hope maybe you'll want to join me. Please let me know if you're interested in talking more, or thinking about this.
4:46 I hope you're having a wonderful end of year season. If you are interested in thinking about this end of year season for yourself, I'm doing my year-end review and intention-setting workshop on Friday of this week.
5:04 And we'd love to have you there. I'll put a link for that too. And just sending a lot of love, and protection, and rest to all of you.
5:14 And I hope we get to connect soon. Take care.
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