Restoring my soul.

After years of loss and heartbreak, lifting through grief and PTSD, my first word choice for 2025 is RESTORE! restore the lost peace, harmony and love in my life. Remove the “noise” that was flooding my head everyday, to where I did not recognise myself or my surroundings. I have embarked on new personal challenges and set new goals. I am dreaming big and actioning a plan to achieve those dreams.

My physical health and body has deteriorated through neglect and apathy the past two years. I am now endeavouring to find a holistic solution to regaining my health and putting my body back into shape. I rejoined the gym, enlisted the help of a Naturopath and a Personal Trainer and am beginning the restoration of body.

My mental health is the aftermath of a war zone, destroyed buildings and infrastructure. A barren landscape, a wasteland of devastation. I am restoring my soul to create a new mentality and a more peaceful existence. By rebuilding a prayer life and adding meditation and yoga into my daily practice, I am already seeing some light return.

For intellectual development I have set challenges for reading everyday and learning from professionals. I have invested in online courses on nutrition, exercise, self compassion. I read novels for pleasure and listen to audiobooks to relax. I have re awakened this “blog” to share my journey and invite you to join with me.

My counsellor worries I am doing too much all at once, I am in the planning phase, each new thing is in a tiny bite size piece of my day or even week. I don’t beat myself up if I don’t follow exactly the plan or my week gets out of whack and busy. I just meet myself where I am each day and listen to my body and my soul to see what is needed in the moment. This is self compassion, this is self care, not following blindly but seeking to be a little better and a little improved each day.

I hope you decide to follow along and cheer from the sidelines or even offer your own tips as we move through 2025 together.