26 days.
In just 26 days, I'll launch my new online home. After 7 years of writing 37days here, I've been working hard to create a new space for myself, one full of images and words and full of strong offers for those who visit needing inspiration.
To celebrate, I'm throwing a free, online party on January 5th (the 7th anniversary of 37days!). I'd love for you to be there. You can learn more and register here.
As we make our way toward a new year, and this new space, I'm asking you to answer the question I ask myself at the end of every year: In the new year, what do I want/need to let go of, and what do I want to create?
Submit your answer here, and I'll post a few answers each day as we count down to the party, the new start, the launch for me–and for you.
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Let go of the deep self-hatred that eats at my soul.
I need to find some way to let go of the deep self-hatred that eats at my soul a little more each day, each year. To do so, I likely need to forgive myself, though for the life of me I can't figure out how to do so. It probably will come through some form of creating, but I feel silenced even in that area. I want 2012 to be the year where I accept my flaws and move forward… but I have not one clue how to do so.
-Jenna Hatfield
I don’t want to live in these shadows anymore
I need to continue letting go of secrets. Though I came out more than a decade ago, I only recently became more open at work about my sexuality. It’s been incredibly freeing and has helped get the ball rolling for other aspects of my life. I blog under a pseudonym, which means I can't share a lot of what I write with people. My house is usually a horrific mess, so I rarely invite anyone over and fear drop-bys. I don’t want to live in these shadows anymore. I need to bring light to myself and teach myself how to breathe again. I think it will really help with the depression that occasionally pins me to the ground. I want to create an online space where I can share my writing and drawings and openly communicate with my readers. I want to create a living space where guests are welcome, a home whose foundation isn’t shame and embarrassment.
-Chi Sherman
To let go of stuckness, of stagnation.
To let go of? It would have to be the feeling of stuckness, of stagnation. It is not true that I am stuck or stagnating, but the feeling is there. The feeling comes from fear. The feeling comes from holding back. So, I want to let go of fear. And holding back.
To create? I want to create health, health on various levels: financial, physical, spiritual, emotional. Especially financial and physical. Which would let go of fear and holding back. Which would create health. Hmmmm. I spy a circle. T'was ever thus!
-Deb Reynolds
To let go of feeling that I cannot make a difference.
The news this morning while driving to work; Virginia Tech gunman, Syria, Occupy (name your city), environmental summit mtgs, financial crisis, border wars, drug wars, wars against each other. I need to let go of the sense of being overwhelmed by our earth's crises, wars, and the disenfranchised. To let go of the thought that our troubles are so complex and how are we ever going to find a resolution. To let go of feeling that I cannot make a difference, that i'm just one person. I, we must create a sense of resilience, perseverance, determindness, can do, will do, and to imbue this effort with love, kindness, vision and community.
-Esther Louie
