The Space Between (sharing a creative end of year integration exercise and journal prompts).

Happy New Year! Perhaps you can take a moment before the hustle of the new year begins. Reflect on the year you’ve had and the one that’s coming.

To help you do this, I’m sharing some fun and creative journal prompts at the bottom of this post to help you integrate your 2025.

Personally, I’ve had a lot of spacious stillness over the last 10 days. I’ve been home alone (with my dog and cat whose company I’m grateful for) whilst my husband is away cooking for a Saudi prince.

I must say, this year, I’ve truly relished this space and time alone and experienced moments of beautiful self-connection whilst reflecting and contemplating.

As I sit here in this liminal space between 2025 and 2026 I feel very much that we are standing on a threshold of enormous change. Across the board.

I don’t need to highlight all the ways in which the world seems f*cked right now. I mean, yes, I think about what will happen when AI has taken over 80% of jobs in the next 5 years.

Or when the sinking ship of the current economic model which serves to benefit the few at the top of the wealth pyramid, makes the standard of living unbearable for the majority.

Or the continual genocides, ecocides, outright wars to online spats, and all the suffering.

To many of those who come to see me with grief and anxiety, I tell them there is nothing wrong with them. Their response is appropriate for the level of suffering they are seeing in the world.

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

– Jiddu Krishnamurti

Yet, my hope for a beautiful new world that will rise from the ashes runs deeper than ever. Because one small step at a time, I see victories in the people I work with. And this is always a microcosm of the World Out There.

I see years of fear and distrust of people from the pain of being hurt, being transmuted into an open mind and heart to give a new relationship a real go – love blossoming as a result.

I witness the journey of others who have been ill-treated at work begin to say no, their voice taking more depth and their confidence taking deeper root each time.

Others who can look back at their trauma and feel true peace with it, something they never imagined possible.

And then I see in my younger clients mid 20’s down to 18 with such an incredible amount of self-awareness. An emotional intelligence that many, three times their age do not possess. They are such wise and powerful souls.

I walk away from those sessions utterly astounded and brimming with hope for humanity. I see in them the ability to acknowledge and feel the pain of their past wounds, yet the ability to shake off the shame that I feel older generations have been bearing like a cross.

This is what gives me hope.

We are all here with a specific role to play in the shaping of a more beautiful world. Your role may be to be that active listener for those around you; to be the parent you wished you had; to smile at that passerby; to create something. It doesn’t have to be grand.

As we stand here between the old world and the new, I feel it’s imperative that we develop the capacity to hold two contrasting truths simultaneously:

Can we acknowledge our wounded parts yet know that we are far greater than them?

Can we honour the pain of others yet still stay balanced in ourselves?

Can we see the old and diseased systems collapse around us, yet stay unwavering in our vision for a better world?

And more than ever, emotional regulation is key.

You can check out my guided Tapping videos to help you regulate your Nervous System and change your mood.

Wishing you a beautiful 2026!