Personal New Year

Today is my birthday or, as a friend once described it, my personal new year.

Celebrating another year of life while in Costa Rica creates a perfect space to reflect back on all of the choices I made and challenges I faced that led me here. This past year was filled with an incredible amount of unknowns. While they were scary they’ve allowed me to be a part of experiences that I could have only imagined. It is not just the places that I am thankful for it is also the people that I have encountered, and been fortunate enough to befriend, that have made this year of life so special.

Two years ago I celebrated my 24th birthday as a student in my first teacher training. The following year I was in that same training but as a coach. Now, this is the third birthday in a row that marks a milestone in my teaching journey. So much has happened between then and now and I can only hope the next years are to follow suite in the rate of expansion.

Each year I learn more about who I am by determining who I am not. I do so by accepting opportunities to be uncomfortable. In these spaces I am forced to trust myself. And oftentimes find the courage to accept the vulnerability that asking for help requires. By resisting the urge to keep myself enclosed in my protective boundaries I have been able to create friendships with new depths.

I do admit, I am not completely free of the fears that getting older presents. I do not want to give that impression, because they are there. What excites me more are the possibilities that I will be presented with to prove my strength by overcoming them.

Thank you for a year of growth, courage, abundance, acceptance, and love. Cheers to another!

Xo,

Bri