CARE check: if for some very strange reason you could only do one thing all day long all year along in 2025, what would it be?
Trust the first answer that came up…
And promise yourself to do that at least twice as often as you’re doing it now.
That will be enough to completely transform your life—and that might not look true yet on paper in December, but that will be true in the only way that counts.
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Hi CARE friend,
Today’s letter will be short and sweet because today’s letter is a prayer.
From my heart to yours.
From my heart FOR yours.
Next week I’ll be off, because my best friend and baby godson are coming to New York to ground in New York’s magic… and to hold my hand while I enter the next decade of my journey!
And so I’ll be back with those weekly letters mid January. I’m looking forward to spending this year with you—and I do hope that those letters will feel supportive on your way to embodying your spark and sacred dream.
I’ll turn 40 on Saturday and I couldn’t be more excited…
Apart from the very first one that took me from pure soul embodiment into the challenges of a trauma body, every decade I’ve spent on Earth has brought me closer to who I am meant to become—to who I already am within my heart.
2024 shook me at my core and showed me every parts of my foundation that had been built on sand… The cracks felt brutal as what no longer served collapsed, and my integrity was tested up to the ability of my skin to repair after cancer.
But I’m not only still here, I’m feeling more full of love and wonder than ever—even if a bit weary and off balance.
I feel awed, humbled… and transformed. I feel changed for the better and committed to Life and to my dreams, more than ever. I surrender to my inner kintsugi process, WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
And I’m so grateful to have this platform to share with you what I’m learning through it all.
I receive a word to guide me every year and my word for 2025 is REWRITING—I couldn’t be more delighted…
One of my favorite quote of all time is from Simone de Beauvoir who wrote “Tel était le sens de ma vocation adulte, je reprendrais en main mon enfance et j'en ferais un chef-d'oeuvre sans faille”:
“This was the meaning that fueled my vocation as an adult,
I would reclaim my childhood and turn it into a flawless masterpiece”
—Simone de Beauvoir
And one of my biggest lessons in 2024 was that I —and only I—am in charge of defining myself.
Buying into my parents’ delusions about the way things were saved my life at one time, but it’s not keeping safe anymore! It’s keeping me stuck. And worse than that, it’s stealing energy away from my dream and my songs.
So I’m taking back the penship of my life now. Indeed, I am the only one who gets to say who I am and who I am not… because I am the only one who has access to the only one who knows: my HEART.
And she’s telling me I am finally ready to learn through joy. I even get to decide—or rediscover—that it is in FACT how we learn best.
What about you?
What is one thing that 2024 taught you that changed you forever?
What is one pattern that you know is no longer serving you the way it used to?
What is one crack that has been turned into a vein of gold and that you want to promise to honor?
What is one wish that you want to gift to yourself today?
And while you ponder your answer, here is my wish for you in 2025:
Please imprint each and every word that resonates onto your heart…
May this year soften you—may it soften your hands, your shoulders, your eyes and your heart area. May it soften you OPEN and melt you back into the love that you are.
May you look at yourself as the treasure that you are, even on the days—especially on the days—where the world seems gloomy and your self-talk unmanageable.
May this year nourish you in all the ways that count.
May this inner dark forest that lies within each of us receive the light, warmth, water and reverence she so greatly deserves for holding you together.
May your light feel untamable and may it benefit YOU first and foremost. (No, there’s absolutely nothing selfish about that.)
May you receive the kindness and compassion that you so naturally bestow onto others.
May your days be filled with little moments of wonder and awe.
May you be tucked in in a blanket of love every night.
May the ordinary feel sacred like never before.
May the extraordinary lead you into a chapter that you would never have dared to dream for.
May you remember all the ways in which you are unconditionally supported, seen, guided, cherished, cheered for and loved.
May you find the root of safety and freedom in the inner holy chambers of your heart.
May you be filled with soul energy and with the fire that birthed you into this world.
May you let yourself cry and rage and scream and unravel as many times as you need to reclaim the joy and awe that is constantly flowing from your center and into every inch of your body temple.
May you welcome even those little frustrations and petty disappointments that we’re so quick to invalidate and find the courage NOT to brush them aside, to learn the valuable lessons that they are trying to teach you before the storm explodes.
May you be met exactly where you are and know that who you are is a MIRACLE—right here, right now, without question.
May you reclaim your so-called weaknesses as badges of honor and proof of your sacred humanness.
May you OWN your strengths and know that they are yours to celebrate.
May you let Fear teach you about courage.
May you surrender to Shame’s guidance into the healing power of compassion.
May Grief bathe you in kindness.
May Anger awaken you to your own boundless wisdom.
May you know that your dreams matter more than could ever be put into words.
May you know that doing what you truly love is how you change the world—even if it seemingly doesn’t impact anyone else ever.
May you be your fiercest advocate and your most loyal ally.
May you treat yourself as the soft animal and precious soul that you are.
May you feel love, loved and loving—and may Love be the only voice you believe.
May you become YOU, everyday more…
May you remember that there is nothing, NOTHING, to fear, even in the darkest night, because the darkness is a nursery of star.
With kindness, love and light—knowing that all three are born in the sacred darkness that we do not need to run away from anymore.
leo