Letting Curiosity Lead: A New Year, A New Way of Healing.
Just because the calendar turns doesn’t mean our lives shift overnight. Most of us wake up to the same routines: the same coffee, the same commute, the same conversations. And yet, something inside me feels different. It’s already January 7th, and I find myself asking: Where did the first week of the year go? More importantly: How do I want the rest of it to feel?
In this reflection, I’ve noticed familiar patterns surfacing. Old trauma responses whispering back to me, limiting beliefs I thought I had outgrown still quietly lingering. But this time, something is different: I’m meeting these moments with more compassion. I’m also meeting them with curiosity.
That gentle pull toward what I don’t yet know about myself, about the world, about who I’m becoming is something I’m choosing to explore deeply this year.
In 2025, so much healing took place. I began to live like I had a choice. Not just over what I did, but why I did it. I stopped outsourcing my life to the expectations of others and started choosing what aligned with my own values, energy, and truth.
This shift didn’t come easy. Growing up in competitive sports from the age of five and continuing through college, I was shaped by performance, discipline, and doing what it took to excel. For most of my life, I knew myself only as a student-athlete. Someone who could push through, show up, and succeed.
But today, at 27, I find myself scratching the surface of who I truly am beyond all of that.
And this year, I’m choosing to follow the thread of curiosity. Not as pressure to “do more,” but as a softer, more sustainable way to understand myself.
Here are the questions guiding me as I step into 2026.
Maybe they’ll stir something in you, too:
What daily choices still carry the weight of past survival patterns?
Where am I settling in comfort instead of leaning into growth? Why?
Which relationships expand me and which constrict me? What am I afraid will happen if I let go?
How can I become the future mother, aunt and grandma I needed growing up?
How do I serve others from a full cup, not from depletion?
I don’t have all the answers yet. But I do have a willingness to ask better questions. This year, I’m letting curiosity lead.
And I trust that wherever it takes me, it will be somewhere more honest, more aligned, and more whole.
Thank you for taking the time to read. If you, or someone you know are in a season of healing, expansion, or simply learning to live with more curiosity, I invite you to follow along. I’ll be sharing bi-weekly reflections, tools, and truths from the journey. You’re not alone.