Returning To Self - What 2025 Meant to Me

If I had to summarise 2025 in just a few words, it would be this. A year of coming home. Not neatly or conveniently, but truthfully.

At the beginning of the year, during a mastermind day, I chose three words as my intention for the year ahead. Signature. Sparkle. Simplicity. I thought I knew what they meant. Looking back now, I realise they were a roadmap that slowly revealed itself over the course of the year. 

Simplicity made space.

Signature revealed truth.

Sparkle became expression.

This year did not give me what I planned. It gave me what I needed.

January began with a very different question from the one I had been living by for years. Instead of asking what needs to be done, I asked, “How do I want to feel today?” 

That small shift softened old patterns of pressure and reconnected me with the wisdom of my body. Instead of pushing, I began choosing.

In February, travelling through Tasmania with my daughter, I realised how much space my mind and heart had been craving. Walking among botanical gardens and watching the ocean breathe against the shore, I started to hear myself again. That was simplicity long before I recognised it.

Mexico brought some of my biggest lessons of the year. Supporting my daughter through tournaments while being extremely unwell forced me to surrender. So much was outside my control. The part of me that loves rhythm and certainty felt stretched thin.

This is where Signature showed its true meaning. It was not the polished version of self-leadership. It was the kind that shows up when everything is uncertain. The kind that chooses presence rather than panic. The kind that allows softness inside discomfort. 

Sparkle showed up too, but in tiny moments. Laughter. A quiet night. Nourishment. Small wins inside a hard season.

Professionally, 2025 was a year of creative expansion. We finished Season 1 of the Embracing Extraordinary podcast. Eighteen episodes recorded and released. 

This year also saw me bring Rhythm Reset to life. And the first rounds of Awaken Your Dreams were completed with beautiful feedback from the women who stepped into that work. These offerings were my Sparkle. Not loud. Just true.

Motherhood shifted again this year as both of my children found new independence. There were moments where the house felt expansive and others where it echoed with quiet. I began to explore who I am beyond constant support. Simplicity stripped back the noise. Signature reminded me I am allowed to evolve too.

And then, late in the year, a fall brought everything full circle. Recovery asked me to slow right down. To listen to my body. To prioritise rest. It was the harshest moments that forced me to come back home to myself. 

I am not carrying resolutions into 2026. I am carrying the wisdom that lived inside every moment of this year.

The greatest transformation of 2025 was not what I created. It was who I became while creating it.

And that is how I will keep moving forward. With clarity. With alignment. With a deeper trust that returning to myself is always the way home.