21/12/2025
Let your intention unfold - but make it scrappy.
I used to feel ashamed that my practices were simple, and very often not insta-perfect.
That shame more often than not made me overthink things and wind up NOT honouring my rituals, rhythms and sacred moments.
This is the weirdly-wired world we currently live in.
It say, “Do it perfectly/prettily or don’t bother at all.”
But if there’s one thing I’ve learnt along the way to re-acknowledging, honouring and embracing my spirit-having-a-human-experience, it’s this:
Let it be scrappy. Always.
It’s the actual *embodied intention* that matters, NOT ‘how it looks’ - yes! EVEN if that ‘look’ is just for you alone.
How often have you refused, denied or abandoned your soul self because it didn’t seem “perfect” enough what you were doing/giving/being for yourself?
Let’s leave that energy here, in the darkness of this new moon solstice. Leave it behind.
Can we do that together?
I’m so grateful to for her brilliant and timely reminder to honour this dark solstice and make it about intention, not performance.
Because performance sneaks in in the most insidious ways, even for scrappy folks like me!
Today I used what I had, and made it matter.
🔥 My daughter made the wreath this morning. It wasn’t finished, but it became a placeholder.
🔥 the beeswax candle was gifted by a longtime school mum-friend who has made them every year since Steiner days.
🔥 I wanted ‘special’ paper but started overthinking again so just grabbed printer paper.
🔥 The receptacle I am using for my intentions is an old Optibac jar 🤣. I could have used my Posca pens to make it beautiful, but instead I cut the heading from my intentions and stuck it on, then coloured the top in gold.
🔥 I wrote my intentions with children making lunch and arguing in the background (with my headphones in😆).
🔥 I did not overthink my intentions, and made them very simple. Most were 3-5 words.
To mark the solstice I drummed a little looking out over the garden and giant yew tree, with my son on his iPad behind me. Not perfect. Not pretty. But real.
Thanks for the new ritual 😍💖🔥