30/12/2025
At the start of each year, I take time to reflect in a way that feels slow, honest, and deeply personal.
This year, that began, as it always does with traditional journalling, guided by workbook.
Pen on paper.
Gentle prompts.
Letting what mattered rise up without rushing to name it.
For me, choosing a word is not a resolution and not something to achieve or perfect.
It’s a way of living the year with intention, a lens I return to as life unfolds.
What was new this year was what came next.
Once I had pages of reflections, I brought my thoughts into conversation with ChatGPT, not to shortcut the process, but to sit with it longer.
I used it as a reflective partner:
asking questions,
refining language,
and testing whether what I was circling had enough depth and resilience to carry a full year.
That dialogue helped me:
bring clearer definition to something I already felt.
shape a symbol I can return to when things feel heavy
and open up creative pathways including music and poetry, that help me inhabit the word, not just name it.
This kind of work isn’t about productivity or optimisation.
It’s about listening, then giving what I hear a form I can live inside.
AI didn’t replace the inner work, it supported it, gently and thoughtfully.
I’ll now spend time finding the music, poems, and quiet practices that help me sit within my word over the coming months.
This is the kind of deeper processing we’ll be exploring together on my retreat on January 15th , creating space to reflect, articulate meaning, and carry it forward with care.
I’ll share more when I’m ready.
For now, I wanted to honour the process itself and the many ways we can be supported as we choose to live with intention.
We have two spaces left if you would like to join us to do lord of this work on retreat.
Just DM me.
#2026
