this fresh fog
on learning in 2024 with the lesson of 2023
If you could choose a word for 2023 what would it be? I was asked this question yesterday… different from the question of choosing a word for the year ahead.
Release came to me in a flash. I released my deepest, truest work into the world by creating my coaching practice. I released my need to show up as my old self, a first born, big-sister who gets it right every time (ahhh!) and I took the space I needed to feel into the heartbreak of health crises that showed up for those I love. I released excess weight from my body by releasing old narratives I had around my own dependencies. I released the illusion of perfection for what it is - an illusion.
I learned that release is a scared ritual for me, a daily practice. And a relief.
I learned that I am a person who can live in the fog. For most of the year, I would stand and in front of the fog and argue with it. I wanted the next ten steps. I wanted a big master plan or to know what was unknowable.
But by releasing over and over I started to understand that the fog is actually quite beautiful and refreshing. The fog is thick and salty, cool and quiet. The fog only allows me to see the next six inches in front of me, the fog asks me to trust myself and take the next step. The fog asks me to rely on my intuition, my inherent wisdom, what I feel in my body.
Clarity, the next small step, one after another is what I support my clients to find in their own fog: “Something that makes you stand apart is that you are one of, if not THE BEST listener I’ve ever talked to! It doesn’t feel like you’re just clocking time, but you are engaged in the drive to find clarity.” Lauren
Using observation, questions, curiosity and an orientation that you hold your next right step already within you, I delight in sharing a walk in the fog with my clients.
What did you learn in 2023 that you will carry with you into 2024?
love,
Anna Marie
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