ENDING WITH INTENTION

May you use these final days of 2025 to let the tears fall and the answers be ugly.

May you listen as lady wisdom whispers her revelations,

and allow the rebirth of your deepest fears and insecurities.

May you reflect. Pause.

But long enough to check in with yourself and honor what you need.

May you finally let the truth find you.

Deal with the honesty of the heart,

and fill your well with the intangible.

May you allow your heart to explore risk.

May you let love be messy, confronting, and challenging.

May you love imperfectly, but never stop loving.

May your steps be steady, your choices bold,

and may your path burn bright with purpose.

May you see the power within yourself

and stand to live brave.

May you remember how worthy of love and belonging you are.

May you let your voice be a heartfelt murmur that moves mountains.

May you begin again.

May you always remember that you are not alone,

and keep celebrating Life.

With love, reverence & joy.

Closure & Completion.

Projects may naturally come to an end. Longstanding patterns may surface for healing. Relationships may shift. We must honor these endings without judgment —they are simply making space for future blessings. Old wounds may resurface, not to punish us, but to offer a final opportunity for true healing. When things fall away, it can be tempting to resist. Yet the teaching here is that true strength lies in surrendering with grace, trusting that what is meant for us will remain or return in its rightful time, perhaps in a different form.

It is the sheer weight of past and present emotion that sometimes leaves us downhearted, even though we try to convince ourselves that avoiding these emotions will spare us pain. But this only creates deeper denial, and eventually, deeper sadness. We may find ourselves dwelling on emotions like anger, fear, jealousy or grief, to the point where we cannot live constructively. Yet denial will no longer be an option as we move into the next cycle.

Soon, the atmosphere will grow lighter and more cheerful. Heavy hearts will rebound more quickly. This is the promise of the closing year, the end of an important cycle. And this end will be the place from which we begin again.

The Bridge to Becoming.

There is a bridge forming between who we have been and who we are becoming. It calls for courage, vulnerability, honesty, and deep trust. If we surrender to the rhythms of release and allow the tides of change to move through us, we will become freer and ready for a bold new cycle of creation.

So we return,

to the knowing that we are not alone.

You are invited to join the collective and find big meaning in the little things. A compliment. A kindness. A favor offered with no expectation of return. Togetherness is transformative. Standing strong, even in the darkest days, to keep a dream alive is not a solitary act, but a communal one.

The beginning of the year invites us not to be shy about sharing our life and vision, so that we may inspire others and allow others to benefit from it. This an opportunity to lay the groundwork for plans that will soon come to life.

We hope to quest, to voyage and explore more with you in 2026,

— for the benefit of something greater.

Words by Eva Lucie Daniela, founder of Retreats Collective

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