As another year comes to a close, I want to thank you for sharing some of your heart and world with me this year, in all its chaos and glory – the grief, the tears, the joy, the longing, all of it.It’s not easy to make this journey on our own. As open, sensitive relational human beings, we’re wired to connect, to love and to be loved, and to support one another as we open into the mysteries.Perhaps in other worlds there are other types of nervous systems. But here, on this star, we have this one – which is so precious.Whether our primary interest is in tending the wounds around love – attachment, trauma, narcissism, betrayal in soul – or in exploring within the transpersonal band (communion, union, Oneness, Unity with the divine ground), we do so by way of an unknown and mysterious relational field, through the dance and play of love in form.Whether we’ve met in person or through one of my courses, my ongoing online community, on retreat, in individual work, or within the inner space of the heart, thank you for being here. I’m honored and grateful to be surrounded by so many kind-hearted friends and fellow travelers.I know many have been through so much this year and lost many of their familiar reference points, unsure where to look for refuge and meaning, confronting feelings of groundlessness and uncertainty.In so many ways, we’ve been asked to turn toward the unlived within us. To provide a temple where the shattered pieces of the heart can come to reassemble.Rebirth is tied intimately to our willingness and capacity to grieve, a holy activity not always honored in our world. But here we are, the misfits of despair, ecstasy, sorrow, and wonder, knowing the aliveness we long for will only be found in embodied attunement to the full spectrum.The process of “falling apart” is not some great cosmic error or mistake we need to correct or repair, but an emissary of wholeness, a way shower of what will emerge from the ashes of reorganization.It is love, of course, that will guide the reorganization. But it is love, too, that is the substance of the ashes, and also the tears…Wishing you a deeply meaningful, joyful, and wildly creative and alive 2025. See you next year.