It’s time to start wrapping up 2013, ladies! Maybe it’s because I’m a mother now or just because I’m getting older (ish?), but this year just zoomed by! It’s insane and I can’t believe I have an almost 20 month old.
So in December 2012, I waffled back and forth on picking a word to for 2013. I just wasn’t in a good place mentally and I couldn’t see any way to focus on anything but getting up everyday and just surviving. I’m not sure what pushed me over the edge but on Yule, I did a tarot reading and picked 2 words to focus on. I wanted to do a little update on how those words manifested for myself and my family throughout 2013.
In 2013, I decided to focus on creating roots and improving my health.
“-More than anything, Roots, is about building our foundation as a family. The three of us. Before Jeffrey was born, there was no way I could imagine never being with my siblings and parents for the holidays. I couldn’t think we would ever have our own home and want to do most of our celebrating just us.
-The images on my tarot cards depicted a turtle with plants growing from it’s back. To me, that spoke that yes our roots are growing but we are still moving. This isn’t our place to settle yet, but we need to start and let them slowly go forward.” (post)
We finally have a space of our own.
We are slowly decorating and creating it to be what we need on a daily basis and what we want to be comfortable and happy. I worry about getting too settled here because when we move, there’s no way we will have this amount of space at least for a while.
We might be buying an RV after this so space will be limited and I worry about spreading out here and getting used to it. But I’ve pushed those worries aside because I know deep down, I just need a space to live in that feels like mine and feels like home. It’s been a struggle to get this space to be what it is and I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished here.
We spend a lot of time as a family of three. We’ve started creating traditions and doing things just for us. We have gone to festivals and the zoo and parks. We are even making our own stockings this year. That seems weird and small but the stocking I’ve had since I was born has been themed with my brothers and sisters stocking, so it was that family. Now, it’s time to create my own family, just the three of us and so we are making stockings and making plans to celebrate Yule in style!
I feel really good about how far we’ve come when focusing on “Roots”. It feels like it would be a cop out to re-use the same word for 2014, and I probably won’t but family and creating roots and traditions and celebrating just the three of us is something we are intent on continuing with.
“-2013 needs needs NEEDS to be the year my fiance and I focus on our health.” (post)
It was. It wasn’t as extensive as it needed to be but it was a beautiful start. I saw a chiropractor at the beginning of the year for a few months, I need to go back but my pinched nerve is gone! In 2012, my shoulders were so bad, it went on months and months and I often couldn’t pick up my son because of the pain. Now? I can’t remember the last time it hurt. Awesome!
I’m currently seeing an art therapist and it’s fantastic. She gets me, she’s an artist too and that’s just awesome.
I’m doing pole dancing. Yay for exercise!
Despite a little bump in the road in my health in September (that I’m still on medication with annoying side effects for), things in the health department are going okay.
Again, I feel good about how much we focused on “Health” this past year, even if it was slightly less than we wanted. We took more actions and have been actively trying to get healthier than ever before in our lives and that is awesome. Go us! (I totally need to put all of this down in my “I Am Proud” journal!). I won’t re-use health but we are intending to continue along this path. I need to find a new general practitioner and I need to go back to the chiropractor. We both need to see the dentist. I need to continue my therapy, and focus more on eating and exercising (this is something I am working with in therapy and I’ll talk about it soon). We are planning to try to do more alternative therapies this coming year as well. I would love to try acupuncture for my anxiety as well as some reiki.
It’s odd that I was hesitant to pick a word (or words) for 2013 but I think this has been the year that I’ve most successfully focused and manifested the words throughout the year. Wow.
Share: Have you written up a 2013 wrap up post or talked about how your word of the year was manifested in 2013? Share the link or your thoughts below.
