For the final episode of 2023, I've decided to record my first solo episode, specifically focused on how to powerfully close out 2023. So often, we can just move on to what's next, but it's so important that we actually process what we've experienced. Both on a micro and a macro level.

So, in this episode, I'll cover the following:

1. Why it's important to close out the year
2. How to embrace change and evolution in life
3. What happened in my year and how I navigated it
4. A series of reflection questions for you to use in closing out your year

Reflection Questions

1. What actually happened this year? What events did you actually move through? What were your highlights? Lowlights? Get out a big page, and draw out the timeline of your year 
2. What were the inflexion points in your year? What events, big or small, really became the crux points in your year? 
3. What self-realisations did you have across the year? What did you learn about yourself and the world? 
4. What do you want to honour and acknowledge yourself for this year? What strength of character or spirit did you bring or create into your life and the lives of those around you, that only you could do?
5. If this year was a chapter in the book of you, what would you call it? What’s the title of it? 
6. Now, write a letter to yourself at the start of 2023. If you could go back in time, and speak to yourself at the beginning of the year, what would you say? Allow this letter to be one of gratitude, acceptance and encouragement.

How Surely Gravities Law - Rilke 

How surely gravity's law,

strong as an ocean current,

takes hold of the smallest thing

and pulls it toward the heart of the world.

Each thing

each stone, blossom, child

is held in place.

Only we, in our arrogance,

push out beyond what we each belong to

for some empty freedom.

If we surrendered

to earth's intelligence

we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves

in knots of our own making

and struggle, lonely and confused.

So like children, we begin again

to learn from the things,

because they are in God's heart;

they have never left him.

This is what the things can teach us:

to fall,

patiently to trust our heaviness.

Even a bird has to do that

before he can fly.”