As we step into a brand new year, many feel aligned to choose a word to represent their desires or their desired feeling for the year. It seems to be growing in awareness and popularity, and it can have a profound impact on how you experience your year. The year I chose 'intuitive', I launched my spiritual wellness business; 'courageous' saw me move to a small country town where I knew no one; 'committed' was the year I moved in with my now-fiancée; and last year, with 'accelerate' driving me forward, I relocated across the country and started a brand new chapter on the west coast.

And the word I have chosen to guide my intentions and decisions for 2025? Ease.

Why 'Ease'?

The past years have been a whirlwind of growth, change, and a whole lot of courage. I've intentionally sought out and made bold decisions, navigated big transitions, and stretched myself in ways I never thought possible. And to be completely honest? I'm ready to catch my breath for a minute! While the world (and hustle culture) pushes us to achieve and do more, more, more every year - and I'm incredibly grateful for and proud of what has unfolded the last few years - I've decided it's time to slow down.

This year, I want to shift the energy. I'm craving softness, flow, and alignment. 'Ease' doesn't mean avoiding challenges or taking the easy way out (I don't know if that's entirely possible and certainly not the way I want to live my life); it's about navigating life with a sense of trust and allowing things to unfold in their own time. It's about recognising when to lean in and when to let go.

What 'Ease' Means to Me

Ease is an invitation to:

• Release control: To let go of trying to control every outcome and trust that life has its own rhythm. *work in progress!!*

• Simplify: To strip away any unnecessary mental load and prioritise finding ways to create mental freedom

• Connect with my intuition: To listen to my inner Knowing and make decisions from a place of alignment rather than fear or control.

• Find grace in challenges: Grace is one of my top values and I'm keen to deepen into her this year. To approach difficult moments with compassion for myself and others, and to stop chasing or pursuing anything that has served its purpose and is ready to move on.

For me, 'ease' also means creating space - space to breathe, reflect, and simply be. It's about balancing the doing with the being and finding moments of stillness amidst the busyness of life.

Bringing Ease Into My Life

This year, I'm committed to weaving ease into my daily life:

1. Creating the environment for ease to exist
   Having firm boundaries and implementing systems and schedules that allow the mental freedom and ease I'm craving, instead of overwhelm and busyness

2. Prioritising rest and play
   Learning I was a Projector and being in lockdown for two years (simultaneously) were the biggest catalysts for learning how to relax. Before that, I literally didn't know how. I'm so much better at resting and playing now; 2025 is the time to sink in and deepen those skills.

3. Nourishing my spiritual health
   Utilising my skills of Reiki, journalling, manifesting, meditation, and gratitude, I can connect to my soul's Knowing, and a state of mindfulness that helps me stay connected to the present and release unnecessary stress.

4. Trusting the process
   I've really been working on "control the controllables" and the word 'ease' feels like the perfect opportunity to expand on that and truly trust the timing of my life.

How 'Ease' Aligns with My Business

Embracing and embodying 'ease' means I get to be a role model for my clients. I can walk alongside them as they work through their people-pleasing tendencies and crippling self-judgement, with a deep understanding of their feelings and a lived experience of how to move through it. I can show them how to move through life's challenges with gentleness. By prioritising ease, I'm creating a deeper expansion in my own alignment from which I can better support others.

An Invitation for You to Reflect

How does the idea of ease resonate with your own life's journey? Are there any elements that you feel called to integrate into your own life? It's all a process and you'll feel drawn to what you're ready to work through. Trust that.

Have you chosen a word for your 2025? If you're a little stuck, or completely unsure of where to even begin, I walk you through all the steps in this blog post.

Here's to a year filled with ease, grace, and alignment - for all of us.