THIS YEAR, MY WORD IS...

The last twelve years have been a blur of pushing and hoping—building a business, raising a family, holding myself together through loss. My dad’s long decline, infertility, realizing the dream I was chasing wasn’t actually mine. Each grief layered onto the next, and I kept going by becoming smaller, quieter, numb.

After my dad died, the hope I’d been carrying finally broke. At first I avoided feeling anything at all. Then, slowly, I let myself remember him—his voice, his music, his presence. That’s where healing began.

When the grief started to lift, I realized how much I had shrunk to survive. How invisible I felt inside a life I had worked so hard to build.

This year, my word is Untamed.

Not reckless—honest.
Choosing instinct over expectation.
Letting what feels alive lead again.

Untamed is how I come back to myself.

untamed

Not reckless.
Not loud.
Not wild for the sake of being seen.

Untamed in the truest sense— unbound by expectation, unedited for comfort, unwilling to shrink to be understood.

I chose this word because
I am no longer interested in
living a curated version of myself.

For a long time, I softened my edges. I considered how things would land.
I weighed how choices might be perceived.

Somewhere along the way, that awareness turned into self-editing.

Untamed is not about burning everything down.
It’s about returning to what feels honest.

It’s choosing what resonates deeply, even when it doesn’t make sense to everyone else. It’s letting my work, my rhythms, and my voice come from truth rather than approval.

One of the quietest cages we live in is imagined judgment.

What will they think?
Will this be understood?
Is this too much—or not enough?

Untamed is releasing the weight of judgement.

Not everyone will get it, and that’s not a failure. It’s clarity.

Living untamed means allowing myself to be fully seen by the people who are meant to see me, without diluting my truth for the sake of comfort.

Untamed is my reminder that :
    1. I don’t need permission to live honestly.
    2. My path doesn’t need consensus to be valid.
    3. My truest work comes from listening inward.

This year, I’m letting myself be guided by what feels real—even if it’s imperfect, even if it’s misunderstood. Especially then.

Untamed isn’t about proving anything,
it’s about being deeply,
unmistakably myself.