The Threshold of 2025

As we cross this imaginary threshold from 2024 to 2025, can we allow ourselves the space to stand in the doorway, looking both forward and back?

Every year, between Christmas and New Year’s, my little family visits our dear friends in New York. They have a wonderful house an hour north of the city, where we go for an annual “staycation”.

It’s well worth the 8+ hour drive with a toddler for this much-needed rest time, where we have no responsibilities and nothing is expected of us.

For a week outside of time, we order takeout and eat decadent food, watch movies non-stop, drink coffee, craft beer, sparkling water, and champagne, and lie around without feeling guilty AT ALL.

Considering the fact that we’re all attentive parents with full-time+ jobs, this week is something we look forward to all year.

This is the reset we need to go back out there and be awesome day after day.

This group have all known each other for so long that there’s no pretense, no holding back, no worrying about what others might think. For one week, it’s just sarcasm, movie references, and inappropriate utterances of, “That’s what she said.” (Yes, I know we’re old school and probably offensive, but that’s how I relax!)

I can’t imagine facing the deep snows and constant pressures of January without this week to rest and reflect. To allow myself to be exactly as I am as I let go of the old year.

You probably won’t hear from me again until the new year…
So before I sign off I wanted to check in—

How do you spend this time before the turning of the page?

How do you close out the old year?

Do you take the time to get complete?

Are you extra sweet and gentle with yourself?

Do you give yourself the space to rest and reflect?

January was named for the Roman god Janus, god of doorways, gateways, and transitions. With two faces, he looks both forward and back—seeing the past and future at once.

As we cross this imaginary threshold from the 2024 to 2025, let us bring enough consciousness to allow ourselves the liminal space in between—a time outside of time—standing in the doorway, looking both forward and back.

There’s so much pressure to be better in the future… to change the things that aren’t working… but any real change begins with simply being present to what’s so.

Can you sit and rest? Can you be with things exactly as they are without trying to change them? What happens when you look backwards and forward at the same time?

Bonus points for actually taking a break and sitting down while you do it!

Instead of adding one more thing to your list or pressuring yourself to be more… better… or different…

I invite you to take a break. To just stop. Even for a moment.

You can’t make 2025 an amazing year—but if you’re willing to be fully present to whatever arises, a new Beauty and Magic will appear.

It may be the greatest gift you can give yourself this year.

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