It’s the last day of 2023 and here I sit, all snuggled up in my favorite chair, wrapped in my cozy blanket with two (yes, now 2!) pups at my feet.
Historically at this time, I would be reviewing this past year, setting goals and a vision for this new one, checking my boxes and making new ones – my new year’s road map. But today feels different.
Instead, as I sit in reflection, the overwhelming and compelling sentiment coursing through me is simply and powerfully, LOVE.
2023 saw some really wonderful highs and some really challenging lows and sure, there are plans and hopes for this new year but all of that just seems irrelevant when I reflect on the women with whom I got to know and work with this year. So instead of a new year’s wrap-up or an inspirational note on the year ahead, this is a love letter. A love letter to you, my precious and beloved clients.
Through talks I gave, groups I facilitated, retreats that I led and especially, my time with my individual coaching clients, I sit in awe of the extraordinary women I got to meet.
“Client” seems like such a clinical word and perhaps “friend” is unprofessional so how do I best and most accurately label our relationship? A relationship where I get to hold not just space for, but a vision of the magnificence that you are, even if you can’t yet see it? A relationship where I love fiercely, invest deeply, feel my heart swell with love and pride and break with your sorrow? A relationship that witnesses so many incredible conversations, revelations, challenges, and triumphs and somehow I get to be in the room for it all?
The only word that seems to even come close is Reverence.
So I write this to you, my beautiful and cherished “clients”, the objects of my reverence. I do not, for one second, take for granted the privilege you have bestowed upon me. I am humbled by your trust in me and more importantly, yourself.
Your commitment to your growth, your courage to choose you, your vulnerability in sharing your story and your rise into your power and importance astound me. Please know how deeply loved you are, how inspired you leave me and that I am forever in your corner.
In boundless love and gratitude, I celebrate you this year and every year to come.