At the end of each year, I do a self-inventory where I evaluate the year I've just been through and set some hopes for the year ahead. This involves writing down my goals of the year as well as some guiding words, phrases and symbols.
Since I tend to judge myself harshly and take on blame that I haven't earned, I hope to morph that nasty habit. My overall hope is to encourage myself to soften that assessment by focusing on giving gentle care to myself and others.
Word of the Year:
Nurture
Phrase of the Year:
I am allowed - and encouraged - to be gentle to myself
Symbol of the Year:
This symbol is from a necklace I bought 30 ago when my own three kids were little. Then, it was a symbol of Dale and me growing our little family.
Now I think of it with us as grandparents, nurturing our granddaughters in this quieter phase of our lives.
When we nurture our grandkids, we are nurtured in return.
I appreciate how the linked arms/shoulders form a heart.
I'm fairly certain that was by design.
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