Thank you for this deep dive into your year and for sharing your beautiful and tender experiences. It has been amazing to see your creative work unfold here and beyond, I am so inspired by your considered yet bold approach. I value your work, and the opportunities to collaborate so much. Sending love for 2025, I am excited to see where it takes you xx
Thanks so much, Lyndsay. I was so pleased to be able to invite you to contribute to the mini zine and for all your support with the card deck. Excited to see how 2025 unfolds for you too 🥰
I love what you say about stepping into the most me version of yourself. Me too. Although me has to be undefined as it's so changeable like a kaleidoscope.
“We hold many, many truths”. I love this whole post, I love the deep reflections and I am so excited for what’s to come. It’s taken me a while to settle into the duality of life, and the many versions of who we are. So happy to be working with you this year ✨
Ditto! I spent so long trying to be anything other than multifaceted, and to contain anything other than multitudes, and the whole time I was holding myself back. So pleased to have your energy in the Playgroup ⚡️
I think that for me, 2024 felt outwardly successful, but inwardly a struggle. But with that, comes some clarity to take forward in the middle ground, and I look forward to exploring that in the year ahead. Thank you for sharing your lovely reflections ✨🌿
Beautiful Sarah, as always. I wrote about diagnosis myself this morning, so that part of your thoughts here resonated. Mine was slightly different in that I feel I have almost instantly gained that 'permission' I seem to seek in order to be gentle with myself! But it has been a long four years in maybe getting there, and it has been hard. I am always so grateful to people that share, as you do. The sense of community that brings is something else. And I love how you draw out the light and the shade - as you say, it is never just the one is it, and maybe that's part of how difficult it is, that the world can often portray that we should only be light. Thank you having me here, I don't show up much I know but I am truly grateful xxxx
What a lovely, thoughtful comment. I might not always see you, but I feel you. This community gives me the courage to show up, to share the hard things, because I know how supported I feel when others talk about their own truths. Thank you for being here. Off to read your post now ☺️💛
Ahh bless you, I only wrote it in my notebook unfortunately. But it may make a post one day! A snippet (with thanks for getting it further out!): 'today I feel I have tiptoed a little closer to accepting that how I feel today may be how I always feel ......., the resistance maybe waning in the face of diagnosis, of explanation'. Much love x
Diagnosis came as a shock to me, then acceptance arrived in the form reading someone else’s CPTSD story. I no longer felt like I was somehow broken, unfixable, and could let go of the “but you haven’t been to war” voices. Sometimes an explanation can help so much 🥰💛
Can't it just, I'm so glad you found the acceptance that's often so needed to take care of ourselves. Those voices really do need some weight to shift them sometimes! xxx
“ I feel like I’m stepping into the most “me” version of myself—someone I value, someone I respect.” This made me SO happy 🥰
Thank you for cheering me on, Anna! So looking forward to making some magic together in January 💫
I agree, Anna! Read that line and thought, "YES!" Happy new year, Sarah. 2025 holds many gifts. Xx
Happy New Year, Lindsay! I have a feeling 2025 is smiling on you, too 😀💛
As always Sarah, your words connect deeply and with a sense of nurturing, of yourself and for those who read. X
Thanks so much, Sarah. For commenting and sharing. Glad this resonated with you, too 💛
Thank you for this deep dive into your year and for sharing your beautiful and tender experiences. It has been amazing to see your creative work unfold here and beyond, I am so inspired by your considered yet bold approach. I value your work, and the opportunities to collaborate so much. Sending love for 2025, I am excited to see where it takes you xx
Thanks so much, Lyndsay. I was so pleased to be able to invite you to contribute to the mini zine and for all your support with the card deck. Excited to see how 2025 unfolds for you too 🥰
I love what you say about stepping into the most me version of yourself. Me too. Although me has to be undefined as it's so changeable like a kaleidoscope.
Ooh yes, I watched Tilda Swinton talking about identity earlier! I think you’ll enjoy it. Will tag you in it!
“We hold many, many truths”. I love this whole post, I love the deep reflections and I am so excited for what’s to come. It’s taken me a while to settle into the duality of life, and the many versions of who we are. So happy to be working with you this year ✨
Ditto! I spent so long trying to be anything other than multifaceted, and to contain anything other than multitudes, and the whole time I was holding myself back. So pleased to have your energy in the Playgroup ⚡️
I think that for me, 2024 felt outwardly successful, but inwardly a struggle. But with that, comes some clarity to take forward in the middle ground, and I look forward to exploring that in the year ahead. Thank you for sharing your lovely reflections ✨🌿
I think this is a helpful way of reframing it. If we can accept those inward struggles, we can begin to find our way through them 💫
Beautiful Sarah, as always. I wrote about diagnosis myself this morning, so that part of your thoughts here resonated. Mine was slightly different in that I feel I have almost instantly gained that 'permission' I seem to seek in order to be gentle with myself! But it has been a long four years in maybe getting there, and it has been hard. I am always so grateful to people that share, as you do. The sense of community that brings is something else. And I love how you draw out the light and the shade - as you say, it is never just the one is it, and maybe that's part of how difficult it is, that the world can often portray that we should only be light. Thank you having me here, I don't show up much I know but I am truly grateful xxxx
What a lovely, thoughtful comment. I might not always see you, but I feel you. This community gives me the courage to show up, to share the hard things, because I know how supported I feel when others talk about their own truths. Thank you for being here. Off to read your post now ☺️💛
Ahh bless you, I only wrote it in my notebook unfortunately. But it may make a post one day! A snippet (with thanks for getting it further out!): 'today I feel I have tiptoed a little closer to accepting that how I feel today may be how I always feel ......., the resistance maybe waning in the face of diagnosis, of explanation'. Much love x
Diagnosis came as a shock to me, then acceptance arrived in the form reading someone else’s CPTSD story. I no longer felt like I was somehow broken, unfixable, and could let go of the “but you haven’t been to war” voices. Sometimes an explanation can help so much 🥰💛
Can't it just, I'm so glad you found the acceptance that's often so needed to take care of ourselves. Those voices really do need some weight to shift them sometimes! xxx