Category / SELF.

by Renee Michelle

TWENTY SIXTEEN.

With another year ending in a month, I’ve started to self-reflect on life and what this year has taught me. The central focus of 2016 was resilience and creating order in my life when things didn’t necessarily go as planned.  The past few months have been about rearranging my plans when it had fallen short of my own expectations and picking up the pieces and starting over again. Just like a chorus to a song, a reoccurring trend in my life is collecting moments of my past and determining if I will let it be a part of me or a memory that encouraged and molded me to become who I am today.
Like a garden, I replanted myself this year to stay rooted and to watch myself grow into the woman I have worked so hard to become. Cultivating the courage to let go and start over is never an easy task, especially when my expectations had somewhat seemed attainable at one point, whatever that may be. I will admit, the year has brought about both difficult and happy moments where it involved letting go and starting over, but today I have discovered I am exactly where I need to be. The act of letting things be and accepting things for what they are has given me a sense of what I am capable of as well as allowing me to be the best version of myself in the process. Cheers to the last few weeks of 2016. Let’s make it a memorable one!

XO,

Nae