07/11/2026
Today marks the start of my 54th trip around the sun, this time around ππ.
Thank you for the many texts, messages and posts. Your love, and kindness and beautiful words have filled my heart and added so much to a beautiful day ππ€π.
Today seems to have been a time of reflection and remembrance. Perhaps Mercury retrograde in the sign of cancer has added to that.
Looking back over the years, remembering my journey, who I was and how far I have come has been a real gift. I have so much gratitude for every step that has led me to this moment, every person, place, experience and especially every version of me along the way. From the little girl who loved to swim and seek out wildlife, to the teenager who grieved the loss of a truly incredible women (my grandmother), to the woman in her 20s who experienced university, began a career, moved many times including to a different contintent, to the woman in her 30s who married, became a Mom 3 times over, faced significant health challenges and relocated half way across the world, to the woman in her 40s who faced betrayal, abuse, more significant health challenges, and then in her darkest and most lost time, she finally remembered the spark of her own light and the courage to choose herself and her children. To walk away from a relationship that almost destroyed her, and embark on a truly profound and humbling healing journey. My journey back to me. Not back to who I was, but to who I was always meant to be.
That version of me, at 46, lost, broken, scared but so incredibly strong and brave, is the one I honour the most in this moment. A part of her believed in the woman I am today, and I am so grateful to her.
In my 50s, I left a 27 year career to embark on a new chapter, to live a life that reflected me, authentically. I moved half way across the world, again, restarted my healing practice and finally came home to myself.
Is life perfect, easy, no, but the woman I am today has a full and open heart, I know my worth, I shrink for no one, my boundaries are strong and I choose to live in gratitude and joy.
Lifetimes of learning, growing, evolving and remembering have led me here, to now. I see her complexity, her heart, her gifts, her joy, hope, love and compassion and I choose her, every day.
I am excited to see and experience the unfolding of my 54th year.
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