Monthly Intentions: ~Create~
Many Decembers ago, I started picking a word for the year ahead instead of making resolutions. I'm pretty goal oriented, but I enjoyed setting a single word or phrase as a guiding intention for the year. It's easy to hold that as a feeling or value I want to hold tightly and help make decisions through the upcoming months. Then I hit The Spring of 2018. Phew. Let's just say it's been a ride since then, ok? Coming out of that now, my decision-making process is shaky, and I feel like I've hit a lot of transitions on a lot of different fronts in my life. Every month, every week, every DAY brought new challenges, and I was exhausted and ill-equipped to roll with the changes. So I went back to what I knew. I picked a word, not for the year, but for the week. I started with Breathe , because yes, I needed to get that fucking basic. And it helped. That week, I focused on my breath. I would breathe through rough moments. I took deep breaths before I had to make decision