Review Your Year With Me
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Let’s look back on 2025 together, but not with a “year in review” exercise where you list all your career accomplishments or gratitudes.
Instead I want to focus on these questions:
🌟 How have you experienced both rest and unrest this year?
🌟 What has happened when you have explored the needs and longings of your body, mind, heart, and spirit this year?
Just Trying To Get Through This
Anyone else been flailing around in a storm of overwhelm?
For me, it began with a stomach bug on our way home from a big family trip abroad.
Then my husband Micah caught it.
Our kids started school four days later, with no school supplies because we’d had no time to buy them.
Afterschool activities, backlogged appointments, and unpaid bills immediately clogged the calendar.
Jet lag still plagued me, weeks after our return.
I’ve been doubting my decision to try life without caffeine as I dragged through the days, while also contending with erratic perimenopausal hormones and autoimmune fatigue.
Friends are grappling with hard diagnoses.
Micah returned to work and learned that a family in his community lost their young son.
Stories of heartbreak continue unfolding: genocide and gun violence in the news, deportation and eviction in our community.
Everything’s been a struggle–getting out of bed, helping the kids get ready for school, completing basic work tasks, making meals, just showing up day after day.
I keep asking myself:
How will I get through this?
You Choose How to Meet the Moment
I have been invited to many rallies and protests this year.
I have attended zero.
Several years ago, I did things very differently.
I joined a public action at least every few weeks, often with my baby and toddler in tow.
I regularly pulsed with fear and outrage.
I believed that putting my (white and privileged) body in the streets was the most valuable way to show how much I cared.