My 2025 Word Of The Year
Each year I choose a focus word for myself; something I can anchor to when I’m feeling like I’m on the road to depletion and in need of realignment.
For 2024 it was “nourish” and I did just that. I started a morning routine that begins at 5:30am and allows me to ease into my day. It was built upon ways to enrich my life that are good for my mind (meditation/stillness/affirmations) my body (the gym/walking) and my soul (journalling/writing).
For 2025 I’m making “intention” my word of the year. I’ve been reading Mel Robbins’ new book “The Let Them Theory” and I’m deeply into this idea of freeing myself from what I cannot control. I had been practicing a version of this for a while, before this theory landed on my path, but I was using it in a “letting go” sort of way that wasn’t always effective. I’m learning that letting people behave as they want to behave, do what they want to do without my interference and allowing them to feel how they want to feel doesn’t mean I have to suffer the consequences if I in turn use the “let me” tool to protect my well being.
I believe intention will fuel my ability to “let them” and to “let me” with efficiency and with kindness.
I hope 2025 is gentle to all, and thank you for reading Feels Like Yellow. 💛
I like Mel Robbin's Let Them Theory as well. I listen to her podcast on YT. Thanks for your idea of having a word of the year! Might just start that practice as well. :) Happy New Year
I'm a year behind you. Nourishment was starting to pick me as the word of the year but I think it's now secondary to serenity (and not in a cheesy Seinfeld way). To me it means learning to be at peace with things wherever they are and living with a bit of idleness. As someone told me recently "you don't need to solve the world's problems."
Happy New Year, Jennifer! 2024 will forever be... the year I met you 😁.