02/02/2026
Being late to the party never hurt anyone 😜
When I first saw the 2016 trend we had landed in 2026 & I thought to myself ‘I’m looking forward baby not backwards’ 🤣
Then I remembered how important 2016 Anna was and the catalyst she created…
2016 I was fresh out of my breakup 💔
To my personality it was my ERA of ‘I’ll show him’ which = wild trips around the world 🌎 (my fav breakup medicine back then)
But 2016 turned out to be the year I was forced to look at myself.
Undeniably the year of my RECLAMATION 🦋
From the outside looking in, I was a newly single woman without a care in the world…
But it was a mask 🎭
No one saw the pain inside of me, the grief & trauma when you lose someone whose still living
No one saw the shame of not feeling good enough because he cheated
No one saw the fear of being single forever because trusting another man again felt impossible
But that year I decided to stop lying to myself
I stopped escaping my patterns.
I stopped numbing my pain with distracting with ‘the next the plan’
For the 1st time, I chose me as the priority.
I started asking different questions:
What do I actually want?
Not just in love…but in life.
I became obsessed with understanding what the happiest, wealthiest, most fulfilled women were doing differently...
And then I put myself in rooms with them so my nervous system could learn a new way to live 💃🏼
I started healing by reclaiming the parts of me I’d been conditioned to believe were “too much.”
Too emotional.
Too difficult.
Too rebellious.
You could say this was the year my rebel was reborn & my no f**ks came online🖕🏼
2016 was also the year I declared:
I will leave England & my 9–5 (no clue on how just ALOT of delusion 🤣)
(& yes it took 4 more years + a whole lot of patience 😂 but we got here)
It was the year I said goodbye to a decade of living in London, a decade of so many amazing memories but some of the hardest challenges I’ve ever faced.
No one talks enough about how leaving a city
is like breaking up with a guy you still love
but know you can’t become who you’re meant to be if you stay.
If 2016 taught me anything it was remembering who I wanted to be again 🥹
