Farewell 2023
I’m having a good time farewelling 2023.
I’m creating and crafting my own ritual for closing this year.
For the first time in years, I actually journaled most days of this year. It started as a way to track a few new habits and it turned into so much more. This daily practice has given me so much useful information; what new habits worked, which ones didn’t and why, it helped me see what lights up my heart and why, places that I love being in, and so much more.
So over the next few days I’m sitting and reading it from the beginning to end. I’ve noted that I want to farewell a few habits, none of them are great surprises to me.
I’ll write about it and why, because writing it out gives me clarity. It takes a jumble of thoughts and the process of writing articulates all the reasoning and feeling for me.
My closing ritual for 2023 is:
review the past year. take our journals, credit card statements, diaries, anything that captures information.
pop on some beautiful music, light a stick of incense. create the mood.
write out what your values were for 2023. they can change, don’t think you need to stick with the ones you made in your earlier years. we change, we evolve, we grow. so does what and whom we value.
take a look at it all, writing down what you spent time or money on, did that feel in alignment with your values. why? why not? what would you do different this coming year?
what habits or rituals do you do? do you love them? do they support and nourish you? do you enjoy them?
look at your wardrobe. what clothes do you love? do you wear them? what ones make you feel alive and gorgeous? which one’s don’t? why? switch things around in your wardrobe space: group them in colours, ascending order, have fun creating new fits.
look in the fridge and pantry; what foods have you been eating? why? how are they working for you? any switches you can make? pinot noir for peach bellini?
step into your bathroom: what makeup do you love? what dont you like? has you daily face cream not stacked up, is it performing and really moisturising? over to face oils? what’s past its due date? smell all your perfumes, what did you wear this past year? did you feel good?
what did you learn from the year, from your people, from your habits and rituals?
You can continue this ritual, working around your home using your values as your guides for what stacks up well and deserves to come into the new year and what didn’t and why.
Journal, do voice memo’s, doodle, mind map. There’s so many ways to get creative and reflect on the year.
Make it beautiful.
2024 ritual to come.
xx
