Dance It Out!

Humpday Haiku

December 31.2025

Old year fades away.

New dawns on the horizon.

Destiny dances!*

     *Demetrios Trifiatis

Here we are at the end of the calendar year. We have added another year of life to our journey here.

What adventures did you have?

Where did you throw away your cynicism?

How many ways have you noticed you are better, wiser or stronger?

What “yes” did you decide to withdraw because that thing just wasn’t working for you?

What unexpected successes did you discover on a difficult project?

How did you use yourself, your skills, your knowledge in a new way?

How did it feel to walk through fear and see “fabulous” awaiting you?

I began writing on Substack early this year to do something new: write. Write in service to growth and expansion – mine and if I do it well, yours too. Here are a few things that organically came from this experience.

1.Sometimes we have to dig really deep and do lots of personal work to heal ourselves; to win the battle for our minds. To get past whatever keeps us from being our full, whole, best, higher selves. I was talking to myself as much as I was talking to you in the posts that I’ve written. I had to tunnel my way through so many layers of emotional earth and rock and exhume the me that has been buried for longer than I realized. It’s interesting and ironic how liberating it is to now put myself in a public place of vulnerability, when in the past it was important to keep the imperfections hidden…as if no one could see them already.

2. I have reached my tipping point and am recalibrating. Along with the emotional healing, the physical setbacks I’ve dealt with for the past few years are calming down. Even with good planning and intentions, it’s hard to give and be at 100% when the mind, body and spirit are out of balance. My healing journey had so many examples of how God’s guidance and provision show up. I couldn’t find a therapist, but those meaningful synchronicity incidents came. Strangers who didn’t know I was trying to turn things around informed me of the origins of my disconnect and how to heal. Even the health issues were reversed when I began a simple conversation with my tai chi instructor. He’s been my teacher for years, but balance came in divine timing.

3.Stepping into a new year, it’s a moment for looking ahead and asking what’s next, what’s doable, what’s calling? Time to move into the stretch. Stretching myself like I haven’t before. To continue taking incremental steps and also deep dives in the work that’s calling me and just won’t go away, so I keep at it. I’m allowing myself to look beyond the fog of disjointed thinking and anxiety about how I’m going to make it happen, and choose to simply rest in knowing that fabulous is waiting. Even when I don’t see anyone, I know I’m not walking alone in this. I also know that people are waiting.

As this year wraps up, I’m grateful for the trek across the desert wilderness, through the valley and up the rough side of the mountain. It’s always in the quiet of the open spaces that I hear the whisper of God’s Holy Spirit guiding me. Here’s to experiencing that miracle in 2026!