Reflections on 2024, Part Two

A deeper dive & the invitation of 2025: learning to befriend ourselves, especially when we're struggling

As promised, here are my reflections on some of the deeper themes of 2024:

The two biggest events of my year were the apartment move and the new book contracts, but as I look a little deeper, it’s what happened before those events that seems to merit some closer interrogation.

Moving is hard, but BEFORE the move, my anxiety was absolutely sky-high, the defining and overshadowing force every day until our new lease was signed.

And proposal writing is hard work, at least for me, but BEFORE I actually sat down and wrote it, I was so deeply stuck.