12/31/2025
Have you been following the Chinese zodiac at all?
So many people have been talking about 2025, the Year of the Snake: a year of shedding, loss, and transformation.
And that could not have been more true for me this year. Both in and out of the studio, I experienced significant loss of familiar routines and faces and of the ways things had always been.
For someone whose greatest fear is abandonment, I felt completely raw by the time we took our family vacation halfway through the year.
If I’m being truly honest, there were many painful conversations about whether I would continue moving forward with Gray Lane at all. My ego was bruised. My heart was hurt. I had worked so hard over the last five years, and it felt like I was watching it slip through my fingers.
The truth I didn't want to see was sometimes growth doesn’t come from adding more, it comes from shedding what can no longer come with us. And I wanted to bring everything.
Yet by shedding, there was room to grow.
And now... we are now experiencing the best months we have ever had at Gray Lane. Not only did we meet our goals this fall, we exceeded them in ways I couldn’t have imagined back in June.
If this year asked you to shed something too, trust that it was making room for your next season.