When you think about it, 2025 is just as close to 2050 as it is to the year 2000. Funny, what perspective can do.
I thought long and hard about what I wanted to write for my opening snippet as your therapist – do I go the road of reflections and what 2024 represented, or do I share my hopes and dreams for what the year ahead may look like. Do I talk about my own healing journey, and how my burnout was at the worst in history, or how I also recovered. Then, alas, it struck me that it no longer serves me or my creativity.
I did it all to prepare for the best new year possible. All the trends (eating 12 grapes, IYKYK), affirmations, vision boards and reflections. Then we had a death in the family – young, unexpected, and earth-shattering. My January would look a lot different than I wanted it to. But that made me think. I wanted to believe badly that I did not trust in the universe. That all the work we do, all the progress and healing we make, makes no difference cause another wave comes, and even though it doesn’t knock you down, it knocks the people around you, it changes your plans, it tests again and again. But I just couldn’t lose the trust. Well, that is because it wasn’t true. I do have so much trust in the universe, but it’s the patience that I am beginning to lack now. How long are we supposed to wait for good things to happen?
A question I am sure many of you have asked yourself from time to time. My answer … The truth is that waiting for good things can feel endless, especially when we’re struggling. But here’s the shift: what if we focused on planting seeds for those good things instead of waiting? Small acts of self-care, reaching out for support, setting boundaries, or even celebrating tiny victories—these are the building blocks for change.
Good things often come not just from patience but from nurturing the process. While we can’t always control when they arrive, we can create space for them to grow.
Remember, if there is something that you truly want and desire for your life and you are being met with resistance each step of the way, it is not necessarily about pushing through or cutting people off but taking a step back to see where your perspective lays—are you going to look to the year 2000 or to the year 2050, because they are both the same distance?