Hello, and welcome to the first Journal Edition of 2025. As we leave behind last year, January brings a new start—a time to set intentions, embrace change, and find beauty in the stillness of winter. With this edition, I hope to share insights, inspiration, and moments of quiet magic that come with this time of year. I hope you’re staying warm, hopeful, and ready for all that 2025 has coming to you. I hope you had a really good start into the new year, and if it’s been hard, I hope you know that it’s going to get better. 2025 is going to be good—really good.
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You can change your life. You can create the life you want to live. It’s all within you. The potential is there, the moment you begin believing in it. And equally if you do not change things, they mostly won’t change. Growth is an active process—small, consistent steps that align with the vision you hold for yourself. You begin to live the life you want when you know what that looks like for you and take action to implement the changes it takes to get there. Wishing for a good life, hoping something will happen or someone will come to change it all will not bring you closer to the life you envision. Instead, every day spent waiting for things to change is a day you could have been working to change them. For every so subtle shift, every new perspective, every exchange of thoughts, each time you let go, and every moment you leave your comfort zone, you are building the life you always wanted for yourself. A good life is created.
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Opening up, opening your heart, invites more lightness and love. When you let yourself be vulnerable and seen, you create space for understanding, compassion and connection. By allowing love in, you soften and the heaviness on your heart begins to ease. Vulnerability changes how you feel, while it can bring with it new perspectives, clarity, and release. It can be so freeing to share what is on your heart, and so comforting to know that you are not alone. When you let love flow freely, trust grows, relationships deepen, and emotions transform from burdens to beauty in the most wonderful ways. Sharing your feelings is a form of embracing them.
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The in-betweens are some of the most valuable moments and hold some of the greatest lessons. It’s in the moments you feel stuck, like you can’t move forward, lacking focus, clarity and direction, that you sometimes grow the most. Although it can be really frustrating and also uncomfortable, these phases encourage you to dive deeper, observe more closely, reflect and reevaluate. They push you to confront the fears, doubts, and limitations you may otherwise ignore or suppress. It’s in feeling stuck that you are called to slow down and reconnect. It’s in these spaces of uncertainty that you understand more about who you are. It’s in the discomfort of not knowing, in the trust that the answers will come with time and in your patience, that you prepare for the next leap forward. In the stillness motion is set free.
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reduce stress. By being more mindful, slowing down, meditating, breathing deeply, I will keep coming back to the present moment. I will work on grounding myself and living in the here and now.
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feel more, and (over)think less. I will put heart over mind. Rather than worrying, overanalyzing, and questioning, I will shift the focus to my heart. To my emotions. To become more aware of how I am truly feeling.
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I want to be honest. January hasn’t been everything I hoped and envisioned it to be. Nevertheless, I am accepting it for what it has been and finding meaning in every moment of it. In particular, beginning my yoga teacher training this month has been exciting (even though it’s also been physically, mentally and emotionally challenging). But already, I have learnt so much, am noticing how I’m healing and growing, and have met such beautiful people. Equally, this month I am especially grateful for my family. As remember the connection and love on Christmas and New Year’s, my heart feels so full. And I’m also so happy that my sister is visiting from Hamburg, so that I can spend quality time with her while she’s here.