30/12/2025
As we scroll through end-of-year reflections filled with accomplishments and milestones, it's easy to feel like we didn't do enough, achieve enough, or become enough.
Some years aren't about climbing mountains. Some years are about simply holding on. About breathing through the pain. About choosing to get out of bed when everything in you wanted to stay under the covers.
That is not failure. That is survival. And survival is sacred.
If this year held grief, trauma, loss, or overwhelming anxiety—if you spent your energy just trying to regulate your nervous system, to feel safe in your own body—then you did the work that mattered most.
Healing isn't linear. Growth isn't always visible. And sometimes the bravest thing we do is simply keep going.
So as the year closes, I want you to acknowledge yourself—not for what you accomplished by society's standards, but for the strength it took to simply be here.
You made it through. And that counts for everything.
With love,
Maria x
