Lately, I’ve been noticing something in myself.
I’ve become a little more still. A little more protective of my energy.
I’ve been a lot more intentional, but not over-thinking… It’s more like I am creating space around ideas, letting them come in, orient, and really connect before moving.
This new year just feels different so far. It’s not exactly a new beginning. It feels more like all of the seeds I’ve been planting are slowly coming to life under the earth. They’re not sprouting yet. They’re just awakening. Slowly, sleepily stirring under the surface. It’s quiet, but I definitely feel them shifting the earth underneath me.
January has always felt like a threshold month. A liminal space. Even though the calendar says “new year,” so many ancient systems—astrological, energetic, seasonal—haven’t actually crossed that line yet. The new year doesn’t truly lock in until February. So it makes more sense not to charge forward with personal goals or business plans, yet.
So what if we just played with this idea for now…?
Honoring a rhythm instead of a schedule.
Listening to our bodies, our inspiration, our intuition.
Recalibrating and feeling into what’s rising beneath the surface before we decide where we’re going next.
It feels like a spiritual practice, right? But is it, really?
What if it’s just naturally, authentically who we are and how we are actually meant to operate?
What I keep noticing, both in myself and in the conversations I’m having, is how many of us can relate to feeling like we have been standing in a threshold, with one foot planted firmly in “real life” —relationships, responsibilities, jobs, bills, and all of the emotions that come with it. And one foot deeply curious and invested in exploring our spirituality—the connection to something beyond our physical reality.
And lately I’ve been wondering, why is that? Why couldn’t we integrate these worlds?
What would change if we did actually live our spirituality in real life? What would be possible then?
And maybe this is where this year comes in for me.
2026 is a one-energy year. A frequency of self-leadership. Self-mastery. Self-responsibility. But I want to be absolutely clear about this, because I am someone who spent years carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders, feeling like I had to do everything myself. And I know many of you might feel that way right now too.
So hear me: It is definitely not a year to do more, or try harder, or finally get it right.
It’s not about holding it all together better.
It’s not about becoming even more self-reliant or self-contained.
This is about honoring you as a return to Self.
What I’ve been calling a collapse into self doesn’t feel like added responsibility — it feels like coming home. Like gathering your energy back from all the places it’s been stretched, pulled, or projected outward. And this doesn’t mean carrying more. It means carrying less of what was never yours in the first place.
What if this year is actually inviting us to make room to explore, from the inside of our bodies, what it would feel like to let the soul come all the way in?
What would that look like to let my soul come all the way in and fill my body from the inside out?
And to let my soul experience the fullness of ME —as I am. Fully human. Filled with the divine.
I keep coming back to this quiet knowing: our souls chose to come here. Into bodies. Into time. Into this particular moment in human history.
And maybe part of why is simple — the soul can’t experience this anywhere else.
It can’t feel joy, grief, wonder, pleasure, longing, love, disappointment, curiosity — not like this. Not without a body.
So what if embodiment isn’t something we achieve…but something we allow?
What if it’s less about learning more, seeking more, reaching outside ourselves — and more about turning inward and letting what’s already here expand?
I’ve been wondering what that actually looks like in real life. Not the weirdly serious social-media “embodiment” that is probably flooding your feed right now. But embodiment as the actual lived relationship with our soul and self.
Slowing down enough to notice what’s already present.
Letting the body speak in its own language — sensation, tension, softening, contraction, release.
Listening not just to the mind, but to the gut, the heart, the places that tighten or brace before we even have words.
I notice how often my body tells me something before my thoughts catch up.
A clenched jaw… A tight stomach… A shallow breath. A wave of…is it anxiety or could it be excitement…? I’ve started getting curious and asking questions instead of ignoring my body’s signals or overriding them. I feel things deeply, and I know many of you do too. So I’ve started asking those feelings directly (like, actually asking them):
• What are you trying to tell me?
• What are you protecting me from?
• What do you need right now?
And I start listening. And when I am present with my feelings, this incredible thing happens: the world inside me steps forward and starts speaking.
When I approach it this way, embodiment stops feeling abstract. It becomes intimate. Practical. Honest.
And something else happens too. The more I listen inward, the clearer my sense of authority becomes.
I start to recognize:
What’s mine to carry — and what isn’t.
What actually feels aligned for me — and what I’ve been tolerating out of habit, obligation, or conditioning.
What I need — and what I’ve been outsourcing to others to tell me.
This doesn’t mean we don’t need support or connection. It means we start aligning to healthier relationships with others and ourselves. It means we stop giving away our inner knowing to people who don’t live inside our bodies.
We’ve been taught that spirituality is up there, out there, or somewhere beyond us. But this…? It feels like resourcing the soul, nourishing it, instead of bypassing it, or treating it as an outsider to real life. And it’s led to a much stronger connection to EVERYTHING — my self, my soul, my body, my mind, my home & environment, my people, and to God, source, and all that is “out there.”
I keep wondering what happens when we stop clenching against life and start allowing our innate wisdom to speak.
When we stop managing ourselves so tightly based on society’s “rules” or what others need or expect from us.
When we let our authenticity — not effort — lead.
Who do we become?
What do we begin to radiate then?
And what naturally finds its way toward us when we’re living from that place — not because we’re trying to attract or manifest anything, but because frequency does what frequency does?
And maybe that’s part of the invitation here… This is integration. This is real embodiment.
Not “tapping in” from our meditation cushions and letting our soul just guide us from afar, but actually inviting it all the way in, in all parts of “real life” so that we can finally radiate our truest, most authentic light out into the world, unfiltered, unapologetic, and fearless.
I don’t have a conclusion here.
Just a lot of curiosity.
So I’ll leave you with the question I’m sitting with myself:
What might change if you let your soul come all the way in — and let your life be lived from the inside out?
Maybe it’s just an invitation to stop bracing…
and start letting yourself be lived—
from the inside out.
