Sara K

This is your reminder that social media is fake!!! Even when it looks like people are telling it all. It’s so curated and it’s dangerous to compare your everyday to someone’s curated aesthetic on social media.

There were a lot of really good moments, celebrations, and travel this year. Moments I’m so grateful for. But if I’m being really honest, this has probably been one of the hardest years of my life. So in reality there were also moments where I was barely holding it together, questioning everything, grieving someone I loved, running on no sleep, getting sick from stress, and just trying to get through the day.

It was experiencing grief I had never experienced before. Burnout. Fear. Sleepless nights. Watching my dog struggle to breathe and feeling completely helpless. Carrying on with work and life when my nervous system was completely fried.

I think it’s important to be vulnerable when you can on these apps if you are capable of it. It helps us all feel less crazy and to be honest, I think it creates more empathy around how many other challenges everyone else is going though each day.

If you didn’t get engaged. Didn’t buy a house. Didn’t hit every goal you set. That doesn’t mean you failed. It means you’re human and you are on your OWN path! It took me years to accept this about my own life and be okay with it. And I mean years lol. But I also know with every fiber in my being that I am making choices that reflect what I TRULY want for myself, what makes me happy… not what society tells me I should be doing.

If you’re feeling behind because your year doesn’t look perfect enough, please know you’re not alone. You’re not late. You didn’t miss your window. Maybe you survived a really hard year too. One day you will wake up and wonder how you accomplished it all!

This year changed me. It stretched me in ways I didn’t think were possible. And somehow, I’m ending it more grounded, more myself, and more hopeful about what’s next than ever before. If all you did this year was survive, that is more than enough (BC SAME!!!!)