You are an incredible human with the capacity to carry all you need.  I urge you to set down what no longer serves you and leave it in the container of 2025.  With renewed strength and determination, I challenge you to carry the good. 

Father asked us to truly listen to our hearts and ask our heart what it is that we truly desire this holiday season.  He asked to take a moment of silence and listen to our hearts.  My heart in this moment responded, health and vitality. 

Sometimes we are so “in action” that we forget how to just be. Action involves taking proactive steps to achieve a goal, while inaction involves doing nothing and allowing events to unfold on their own. 

My sons asked me after one had found the pickle and opened the little gift, “Why do we hide a pickle?” To which my husband replied, “I think it's a German tradition”.  Me being the one who needs the answers, does the ultimate fact check- I Googled it.

The next six weeks are often a blur of how many activities can we fit into the tiniest window possible.  I invite you to come into this month of December with an air of rest.  

How can you rest? Here are seven ways you CAN.

May each day this week, choose one.

As I stood in the long winding line of the check out, I took into perspective how fortunate I am, I GET TO gather and nourish those I love and have the resources to do so.   

I hear it all the time- “ I can’t meditate… My body is too anxious.” “I can’t meditate, I just can’t slow my brain down enough to be calm.”  

Guess what?  ME TOO!  

The Ashley of five years ago, would have said, with a LOT of Universal prodding- “Yes, you’re right, that is EXACTLY what I want to do and where I want to do it, but I just do not see HOW I am going to get from here to there, it's impossible.”

This week, I strive to acknowledge my posture of elegance. I will hold my intentions in crystal clear clarity. I will do what actually matters. I will be present for the sweet moments. When I strive for balance, in what may feel like an unbalanced week, I know it will not be perfect. But if I hold myself in the center, I know I will be able to shoot more arrows without tiring.  

As the days grow shorter, I encourage you.  Please, find the light. In any way you can.  Take 20 minutes for yourself and know that that walk is truly the healthiest choice.