Her Unique Glow

I can’t believe that 2018 has crept up on us and that last week we said goodbye to 2017. When it comes round to the new year I’m always reflective:

• Have I achieved what I wanted to this year?
• Have I done everything I set out to do?
• Have I made a difference?
• Did I make the most of every moment?
• Did I fill my year with love, happiness and nourishment?

When I ask myself these questions I’m always hoping for a YES in every single way. Sometimes that doesn’t happen though, after all we are only human – mistakes, lessons and challenges happen to all of us – we just have to work out what sort of human we want to be and how we will let those affect us.

I went into 2017 full of hope. Hope that I would pour more of my heart and soul into HUG. Hope that I would make a difference to someone’s day. Hope that my family and relationships will be full of love. And hope that my relationship with myself would blossom into one full of unconditional love.

Now that 2018 has come around, I hope for all of those things I did last year but so much more too. I used to be the sort of person that wrote down a million and one new year’s resolutions and goals until I realised a few years ago that we have to tread with caution around new year’s resolutions – how much pressure we put on ourselves to achieve them, the expectations we hold for the new year AND the quantity of changes we desire to make on our lives.

Instead I opted for intention setting.

Rather than looking at what I wanted to change (to me it seemed that personally I would just look at the negative) I looked at how I wanted to be, who I wanted to be and how I wanted to live my life (focusing on the future and the positive). All of a sudden I dropped all the expectations that I held against myself for that year and instead opted for a relaxed approach where I focussed more on my journey through life and how I wanted that to look. I realised that it was more important to me to focus on my intentions for the year than putting emphasis on what I needed to ‘get done’ or achieve.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not putting new year’s resolutions down, or even goal setting. I love them both! They both have their place and their purpose. I just know that for me, the expectation that a new year would somehow change everything about my life was just too much. It took the control and the power away from me.

So this week I wanted to focus on a theme: the new year! Why not? It’s the first week back in the swing of things after the holidays and it’s the perfect time to reflect on our past year and what we desire for 2018.

So here’s some exciting news! With the new year here, I decided that I want to share more with you all so starting this week I’m going to be making weekly podcasts and YouTube videos! I’m so excited to share these with you and hope that my giving more content to you, it will help you on your journey towards that better relationship with yourself and total nourishment from the inside out. So keep an eye out and enjoy this new year for everything it has to offer to you!