12/31/2025
Happy New Year
Here is my annual letter and New Year's Ceremony to help you bring in 2026.
May this year bring you many blessings, love, joy, renewed faith in self, and a partnership with your Source to co-create the life you desire.
Dear Beautiful Souls,
As we say goodbye to 2025 and all that it has held, let us pause for a few moments of reflection. This is a sacred threshold, a place where we can honor where we have been, what we have walked through, what has blossomed, and thoughtfully recognize what we are ready to release. In this space of awareness, we open within ourselves the capacity to welcome new possibilities, to trust and have faith in our soul’s path, and to co-create with the Creator within as we step into our next chapter.
This year has been a year of growth, gratitude, patience, inspiration, and fulfillment, and I’d love to share a few highlights with you.
In September, Melissa Scannell and I hosted a weekend women’s retreat, The Medicine Within: A Shamanic Journey. It was powerful to immerse these beautiful souls in a journey of self-exploration, transformation, earth medicine, community, and deep soul remembering. We are delighted to share that we will host two weekend women’s retreats in 2026, May 1st through 3rd, and October 9th through 11th. More details will be available soon.
We are also looking forward to expanding these weekends in the future to include mixed groups, couples, and more, continuing the work of deepening connection, healing, and community.
In January, both in-person and Zoom Dream Workshops will be available, along with many other offerings throughout the year. And as always, I continue to be blessed to walk beside so many beautiful souls in session work.
Thank you for being part of my journey and for the way your presence has touched my life. I wish you a New Year filled with love, peace, health, compassion, and abundant blessings.
Below is a New Year’s ritual to bring ceremony to the beginning of 2026.
With much love and gratitude,
Donna
New Year's Ceremony
Let's first take a moment to reflect.
What gifts came to you this year? What are you most proud of?
What did you struggle with, and are you ready to take a deep breath, let those experiences be your past, and let go? Is there a recurring story you mentally entertain that you are ready to release because it never brings you joy?
Are you ready to release regrets from situations where you can bring no change? Forgive yourself and let go of others' words, actions, or inaction, remembering we are always doing our best in each moment. If we could have done something different, we would have. This is a powerful truth. Until we bring in new information or heal, we will keep repeating the patterns. This is what makes this statement a truth sometimes hard to understand.
The courage to bring peace to our past frees our energy to bring the changes we desire to life.
Looking at situations with compassion, recognizing our value, setting healthy boundaries, and walking with grace and integrity, is a powerful healing practice. Remember, integrity is not about being right. Integrity is following our intuition without judgment of ourselves or others.
AND … Are you ready to welcome a new dream for you, your life, or the world? Can you trust in these heart-desires gently and let Spirit and the Universe figure out the ‘how’s, ‘when’s, and ‘what’s?
Dreaming without any expectation of the outcome takes practice. Dream the dream because it feels good and let it come to life within you; feel how delicious it is to be alive in your visions. Believe you are enough, you matter, you were always meant to be, and remember dreams are an expression of the beautiful light that is you. Don’t let your inner saboteur get in the way.
Love your dreams! Love you! And LET GO! Doing this opens your energy to receive more than you ever could imagine.
So, let’s talk about some ways to do this!
1. Write a letter to 2025. Put everything in it, all the good, bad,
ugly, precious, loving, and crazy. Let it all out; this is only for
your eyes.
2. Write a gratitude list – bring yourself back into the gift of
today. Find things you believe in about yourself, about your
Source, push yourself to open your heart, and allow joy.
3. Destroy this letter, shred it, burn it (safely), tear it into pieces. Let last year go.
4. Write a love letter to yourself.
5. Call in your Dream. What do you want to create within yourself, and have it manifest in your life? Do this without
limiting yourself by the dreaded "how" s. Just dream it. Let it be alive in you. Let it inspire you to remember how you are
capable of more than you allow yourself to truly know. DREAM!
Write, draw, paint, collage, and or visualize your Dream coming to life. Allow the feeling of it to be alive within you and make a physical representation to remind you that your dreams are possible. Then give it to your Higher Power or Source, trust the process without expectations, and celebrate you.
And if you feel drawn to it, dream a new dream for our world.
6. Create a list of affirmations to support you in living more fully
from your authentic self. Write these things on a piece of paper, print it out, be creative, and hang it on a wall or mirror so you can see them and read them aloud daily.
7. Create a list of simple habits that will support you in believing in and loving you. Do at least one of these habits everday.
(ex: light a candle, smudge, meditate for 5 minutes, wash your dishes before bed, make your bed, walk, go outside, great the sun each morning, set an intention for the day, laugh at everything misstep that happens throughout the day, be compassionate and kind to you)
Thank you for being you!
I look forward to the time I will spend with you this upcoming year and the journeys we will take together.
May 2026 bring you many blessings, much love, health, compassion, and joy.
Much love,
Donna
