Looking Back at 2025, and the Question I’m Carrying Into 2026

As 2025 comes to a close, I’m taking a moment to sit with what this year truly was.

It was growth-filled and energy-draining.

It was emotional and honest.

It stretched me in ways I didn’t always expect or feel prepared for.

I did brave things this year. Not the loud, headline-worthy kind, but the quieter kind that require resolve. I made decisions that asked me to trust myself when it would have been easier to stay comfortable. I began to silence unhelpful narratives written by others, stories that had been playing on repeat in my head for far too long. And I made a conscious choice to invest my time, care, and energy in the people who invested in me.

Growth is rarely neat.

But it is always instructive.

One of the biggest lessons 2025 offered me was this, we are often far harder on ourselves than we would ever be on the people we love most. Especially the women who have spent years being steady for everyone else, raising families, building careers, holding it all together. Somewhere along the way, we forget to extend that same grace inward.

As I step into 2026, there is one question I’m carrying with me. A question I plan to return to again and again:

What could I do if I trusted myself more?

Not someday.

Not when everything feels perfectly aligned.

But now.

This question is not about recklessness or reinvention for the sake of reinvention. It’s about agency. About listening to the quiet inner voice that knows when it’s time to move, to rest, to try, or to let go. It’s about choosing belief over doubt and self-leadership over old scripts that no longer serve us.

For me, this question sits at the heart of everything in development.

2026 will be a year of meaningful growth for me and this community. New conversations. New tools. New ways to support women navigating life after full-time parenting, women standing at the edge of a new chapter and wondering what’s possible. Big things are coming, and they are being built with intention, care, and a deep respect for the season of life we’re in.

Because this is our time. This is MY time.

To shine.

To create the narrative we want playing on repeat in our heads.

To choose words, beliefs, and paths that fuel our soul and ignite our passion.

I am living this journey along side you and sharing my real, raw moments in the hope you feel seen, heard and a part of something more.

Happy New Year, my sweets.

Be kind to yourself as you look back on 2025 and step into 2026.

Use the same words you’d use with your kids.

We raised them. Now we rise.