Happy New Year!
My favorite day of the year! The day of so much hopefulness for the year ahead, a clean slate, Day 1! A day with family, a day to just be, a day to dream! Cheers to 2023!
I have some exciting goals this year, and I’ve seen a different thought about goals I’m embracing this year - good goals don’t change you, good goals bring you back to who you are, and who were made to be!
2022 was hard. Like really hard. I struggled. Big time. I struggled in lots of ways, and I realize that it’s because I fell away from me and didn’t even know it happened. I spent 5 months of 2022 with my foot in a boot, and while I recognized at the time that it sucked, I let it change me, and not for the better. I threw in the towel on anything healthy, on any level of physical activity, on any amount of awareness around what I was fueling my body with, instead of using that towel to wipe my brow and double down given my limited mobility. With two stress fractures within 9 months, with no apparent reason, the stories I started to tell myself were grim and my mental health was the darkest I remember. I pride myself in being able to carry a heavy load, to take stress in stride, but this year just about crippled me. 2023 is about returning to who I am, who God made me to be, and about rediscovering the fire inside me, to achieve everything I set my mind to, to overcome. That’s who I am.
I’m looking forward to chasing dreams and goals in 2023, to make amazing memories with my family, (keeping up with my family!) and to laugh so much along the way!
I hope your day was amazing, you took some time to dream (something I hadn’t really done in far too long!), and soak in every quiet (or chaotic) moment of your day!
Cheers to 2023, to dreaming again, and returning to who you are!
xo,
Ali
