The Year I Chose to Become Someone New
There comes a point in life when the questions change.
Early on, the questions are about survival:
How do I get through this? Why did this happen? How do I keep going?
Later, often years later, the questions become quieter and more meaningful:
Who am I now? What matters? What is asking to emerge next?
As I move into 2026, this no longer feels like a year defined by grief.
It feels like a year defined by becoming.
It has been nearly three years since I learned my twin had terminal cancer and only months to live, and over two years since he passed. That loss didn’t disappear with time, but it has transformed. What once felt sharp and disorienting, unable to stay my birth day without breaking down, gradually became reflective, clarifying, and deeply revealing.
Grief shattered my life open.
But it didn’t leave me empty.
What followed were seasons of turning inward, sometimes quietly declining gatherings, sometimes choosing solitude over noise. This was not because I was broken, but because something in me needed space to listen. I wasn’t withdrawing from life. I was integrating it.
Grief has a way of stripping away what is no longer essential. It dismantles identities built on momentum, expectations, and unconscious patterns. And when those structures fall away, awareness naturally rises.
At the same time, my work as a hypnotherapist was deepening.
What I didn’t anticipate was how much holding space for others would awaken me.
Sitting with clients as they reconnect to themselves by helping them release subconscious blocks, regulate their nervous systems, and move beyond patterns that no longer serve them, has been one of the most profound teachers of my life. You can’t witness transformation without being changed by it. You can’t guide others inward without being invited inward yourself.
Hypnotherapy isn’t just something I offer.
It’s something I live.
Through this work, I’ve seen how awareness rises naturally when people feel safe enough to stop resisting themselves. Healing doesn’t come from force or fixing. It comes from presence. From listening. From allowing the subconscious to reveal what’s been waiting beneath the surface all along.
This is where my own becoming has unfolded.
2026 feels less about “healing” and more about embodiment. Less about repairing the past and more about consciously choosing how I live now. I’m not interested in returning to who I was before loss, that version belonged to a different life. I’m interested in honoring who I’ve become because of it.
This year, my intention is simple: to live awake.
To continue supporting others as they reconnect to themselves, while allowing that same awareness to guide my own path. To trust the quiet seasons. To honor the moments of inward turning. And to recognize that transformation is rarely loud. Transformation is subtle, steady, and deeply human.
If you are in a season of change, letting go of what no longer fits and opening to what’s emerging, you are not lost or broken.
You are becoming who you are meant to be.
And if you find yourself needing support, clarity, or guidance along the way, I am here to walk with you through whatever you are ready to transform.
Wishing you a year filled with abundance, growth, and meaningful expansion.
