2025 – The Year of Coming Home to Myself

I walked into December completely sure of my word for 2025. In fact, I’d picked it months ago. Actually I’d picked it in 2023 for 2024 but then as 2024 got closer, explore decided it needed to be my word so I figured I could save “release” for 2025. So it was reserved. 

I was so sure I was picking it that I bought myself a balloon necklace to remind myself to release. I started a pinterest board, collected quotes and more. 

But then on December 20, I read through Susannah Conway’s “Find Your Word” booklet. I read each word on her list. And when I came upon the word “home” I felt an actual chill in my body.

Home.

Yes, that’s what I wanted. Sure I wanted to release all the baggage I was carrying and all the ideas and thoughts of right and wrong that weren’t mine. But really it was all in service of coming home to myself. So the feeling I was after was being at home with myself. And I thought release was the path to get me there.

But reading that word made me realize if there was a different way to get there, that was fine with me too. Because the true goal, the end goal, was being at home in my own skin, in my own body. Being at home with myself. 

I tried to fight it for a few days. Because come on I’d bought the balloon necklace. I’d been carrying the word “release” for two years now. And was I really going to change my word 10 days before the year ended. 

And then I happened to be listening to Byron Katie’s book “Loving what is” and at the very end of the audio, she said:

Just keep coming home to yourself, you are the one you’ve been waiting for.

And that did it. 

Home it was.

Apparently I really was going to change my word 10 days before the year started. 

Here’s to learning to keep coming home to myself.