What once was is no longer. And the more we look back, the more we hold on to the dream, the idea, the person, the place, the thing, the more we will hinder ourselves from receiving all the beauty that is here for us now.
I recently wrote a post on Instagram that seemed to hit home…
“The degree to which we will flourish in our next chapter, is directly related to the degree to which we are willing to let go of the last one. We cannot leap if we are holding on to the ties of what was. We cannot fly if we first do not let go, and let ourselves fall.” - Katie Buemann
It feels as if there is a collective invitation to let go. That a lot of us find ourselves standing at the very beginning of an entirely new path. One we didn’t expect ourselves to be standing on. One that wasn’t visible or available to us before. One that looks nothing like we thought it would look.
One that perhaps might be leaving us asking the question…“Is it safe to trust this path that feels right yet so foreign?
Personally, this is showing up for me in a big, big way.
On December 30th a wonderful man asked me to marry him (and his four beautiful children). It came in the form of a gift under the Christmas tree that, in one singular moment, flipped my entire world around.
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