Dear Reader,
Happy New Year! I hope you had a restful last few days of 2022 and a gentle start into 2023. I spent a lovely week with my family, and was reminded of a few things:
- I've grown so much in the past few years. I used to be a mega-perfectionist, and motherhood (and life, and inner work) have helped a lot with letting go of it. Our Christmas Eve did not go nearly as planned, and yet it was absolutely lovely and relaxing and everything I needed it to be. And I was okay with it not being as I had envisioned it.
- It's okay to thoroughly enjoy the things you love. I spent a blissful morning playing legos and duplos with Aurin, not thinking about anything but how we could build a house with four dining tables and a big parking lot. Allowing this flow to happen was magical.
- Life is short. So short. The past week has brought some heavy personal news in our family. We're also grieving with friends who are facing a devastating loss. Moving in this with grace, allowing the feelings that come up, and talking through them is hard, but important.
- We're good. We're genuinely, really, thankfully good. Despite the above. The start of 2022 felt a lot more ... brittle? than the start of 2023. I'm moving into this year with awareness, and love, and compassion, and grace. (And then the toddler has a meltdown about me making my own coffee this morning. And that's okay too.)
So, let's move gently into this new year. I hope that wherever you are, whatever you are facing right now, you know that you are loved. You are enough.
Hanna Lisa x
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Ich freue mich so, das Projekt, an dem Elsa und ich in den letzten Monaten hinter den Kulissen gearbeitet haben, endlich launchen zu können: Unsere neue deutsche Website ist da!
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