12. A Journal, A Sauna, & a Lightbulb moment

Firstly, Happy New Year! I hope the end of 2024 and the start of 2025 have been kind to you. And if not, I truly hope you’re being kind to yourself.

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Over the summer holidays I’ve been cleaning out boxes, some of which contain things I’ve carried around with me since childhood. The mission started because I’m sure I have a collection of letter stamps somewhere that I need for a new art project. My word this year is CREATE, which holds so many layers and meanings for me - including creating the life I want to live. It’s about filling my days with creativity, crafting art projects, and writing meditations and mindfulness practices to share.

The word CREATE represents me at my most alive. I am truly myself when I’m in my creative mode.

Do you choose a word to represent the year you want to live? I’d really love to hear what yours is!

Back to searching through boxes - I came across an old exercise book with a journal entry from a family holiday in 1990.

The significance of this lies in the line about the sauna. For 34 years, because of one tiny moment in my life as a 9-year-old, I believed I didn’t like saunas. I was convinced that if I went into one, I’d faint.

But late last year, I discovered my love for saunas. The gym I’ve been attending for two and a half years has a sauna I’d never dared to try. It took booking a private sauna 30 minutes from home to realise I actually enjoy them! The push came from a podcast where I heard that getting really hot a few times a week is excellent for your health. That thought lived rent-free in my mind for months until I finally said, “Maybe I can sauna like other people?”

I sometimes struggled to fully grasp concepts like grounding, inner-child work, or limiting beliefs until I experience them firsthand. And BAM - here I am, witnessing a limiting belief unravel in my life.

This lightbulb moment has made me question: What else have I internalised as “not for me” in life? What other stories have I been telling myself that might no longer be true?

As I reflect on this, I invite you to do the same. Are there beliefs or stories from childhood that might be holding you back today? Perhaps they served you once, but do they still fit? What might you discover if you let yourself explore beyond them?

Here’s to creating space for curiosity, for rewriting old narratives, and for stepping into the fullness of who we are meant to be in 2025.

Libby x