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The Year We Stopped Waiting
A love letter to permission, power, and what happens when you finally choose yourself

Happy Holidays, friends. ✨
I'm writing to you from that strange, in-between space where one year hasn't quite ended and the next hasn't fully begun. You know the feeling. The world slows down just enough for you to catch your breath and think.
And in this stillness, I'm not here to give you a highlight reel or tie 2025 up with a neat bow. That's not real life, and honestly, growth is far messier than that.
What I am here to do is reflect with you. To pull the thread that's been running through this entire year, through our conversations, through the work I've witnessed with clients and organisations, through the patterns that keep emerging. To name what we've been learning together, what we've been unlearning, and what we're finally ready to claim.
Because if 2025 taught us anything, it's this: we've been waiting for permission that was never anyone else's to give.