Okay but what if you DO want to drastically change your life starting this week?
Thoughts on transformation.
So it’s well documented by now that my general New Years vibes are please leave me alone until March-ish, thanks. I will be starting anew in the Springtime, when the earth shows us how to sprout and wake from slumber, thank you very much. As for me, for this first week of this new year, my phone usage is up 23% (yikes, okay, don’t love that). I’ve been home more this week than the entirety of 2023 combined, probably. I have spent the week researching soup—like, not its origin or anything. By research I mean I ended up on a reels rabbit hole of extremely easy, hearty soup recipes, and saved a few to revisit or not revisit later. I’ve been really overhauling and curating my sock drawer. I’ve been deep conditioning my hair. That’s where we’re at over here.
But.
I know what it is like to wake up and feel like I need to crawl out of my skin and into a new entity. I know what it is like to hear the voice calling to me, saying my name as clear as day, waking me out of my autopilot or my doubt or my I-guess-this-is-who-I-am-now and reminding me that I would like to be someone who is very much alive in my life. I have known the meeting of self that says, we can’t do this like this anymore. I have known what it’s like to need a fresh start in the early morning or the gift of a Monday or the flip of a calendar as a mark for The New Way. And maybe you’re there, and January was the line in the sand you needed, and you are boldly and bravely etching new brain pathways and choosing You and proving to yourself that you can keep a promise to yourself. And wow, look at you doing that in this dark, cold, wintery month.
So, if that’s where you’re at, here is your caveat-one-time-exception-for-January-just-for-you love letter from me:
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