An End of Year Reflection for Women
Even though every year is not all sunshine, we still have rainbows
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One of the greatest ways you can show yourself love is by offering yourself compassion as you reflect on your year. Especially when it’s been a tough one. Here’s an end of year reflection for women, especially if your year hasn’t gone the way you thought it would.
An End of Year Reflection for Women
Who you are now, or where you are now, is not who you imagined or where you imagined you’d be when the clock struck midnight on January 1st. Your best laid plans and goals and aspirations went all the way awry.
Maybe you’re wondering, how?
Maybe you’re wondering, why?
But maybe it’s not about figuring out how or why what you thought would be isn’t. Maybe the lesson is in appreciating what was and accepting what is.
Maybe amidst the sorrow there was still joy.
Maybe amidst the hurt there was still love.
Maybe amidst the loneliness there was still connection.
Maybe amidst the struggle there was still purpose.
Maybe those contradictions can coexist.
Both things can be true at the same time.
Revisit and reflect
Try using your calendar to go back in time, month by month, to find the moments, events, and time where you felt loved, cared for, seen or supported by your community. Consider both large and small moments. Maybe you made a new friend or went on a fun adventure. Or maybe it was a moving moment in a yoga class or a sincere hug from a friend. Think expansively.
Every day is an opportunity
There are more days and weeks and months to fill with more joy, love, connection and purpose. It may look differently than you thought or planned, and it can still be healing and nourishing and fulfilling and fruitful.
In this year, one chapter may have closed, but that doesn’t mean it’s the end of your story.
You may have to go back to the beginning of your story to remember who you are, but the good news is, that’s not where you’re starting. And when the time comes, let yourself turn the page and write a new chapter.
Reflect and renew
Like sentences turn into paragraphs and chapters into books, our lives take shape when small, every day moments accumulate into weeks and months and seasons and years.
You don’t have to plan out your entire next year in this moment. Are there a couple of things you can plan in the next few weeks that will be healing and nourishing? Perhaps it’s as small as adding a few minutes of meditation to your day or planning a menu for a special meal. Document a few and put them on the calendar, if you can.
How will you plan to reflect on this year and plan for the next? Share your ideas in the comments below.