New Year Hangovers
Nurturing Yourself After a New Year Energy Surge
My love,
My goals for January are to hibernate, dream, learn and create.
I’m on track to do this (I am deep into an intensive Yoga Teacher Training as we speak) and yet … I feel like I’m falling behind!
It’s classic January stuff. I get all excited about the new year, the energy of it all and my goals, then I get a kind of New Year hangover!
My fears show up as ‘I’m not doing enough to be seen’ - I’m not showing up enough online, sharing enough, connecting enough, etc. etc. - whilst also not wanting to be seen at all and wanting to hide away in a cave.
Now, I was very aware of this feeling last January, so this year I preempted it.
During a mediation about what I’d like to call in for winter and 2025 - I wanted to feel safe to rest without wanting to disappear - I had a letter to future me (me of today!) channel through me.
I thought I’d share it.
Just in case you have a bit of a NY hangover and you need to hear it too.
Rest my love
You are enough, you have enough, stop searching for answers ❤️
Just show up and enjoy sharing what you’ve learnt.
This is easy whenever you are yourself. You are a magnet; people love you and your energy.
Nurture yourself, go inside, take time to learn and *create*.
❤️ Create containers for people to do the same - they will come ❤️
It’s that ‘just show up’ bit that get’s me every time!
When I’m feeling wintery. When I’m learning and processing (as I am in this course). When I’m still tired from Christmas, with a few extra mince pies around my belly … I don’t want to show up. I don’t want people to see me like this. I’m scared I’ll be rejected.
Actually, I believe the opposite is true; it’s in nurturing connections when we’re at our most vulnerable that the best connections are made.
I’d love to hear how you are doing? Does this resonate? Or does your fear show up in a different form? (I think my fear around being seen or not is related to my human design so your could be very different!)
Loads of nurturing love,
Hannah XOX
P.S. Luckily this year, because I’ve ‘created containers for people to do the same’, it has the happy side effect of making sure I ‘just show up’!
The next 6-week Venus Yoga course starts this evening, and I’m so grateful of this opportunity to show up as we are and work with my local loves in person and with my online loves from all over the UK.
Venus Yoga is themed around love and we’ll be working with the element of water to strengthen love for ourselves. By the time I’m finished with them on 14th Feb (as luck would have it), they’ll be feeling empowered; like they’ve really got their own back ❤️🔥
NB: This round is now closed for sales, however, the next 6-week course starts on 7th March and will include an extra special Spring Equinox Ceremony on my birthday!
P.P.S. If you would like to join one of my other containers for Love Note Members, every fortnight I host Monday Mediation here on my substack. The next mediation is on Monday 13th January and we will be working on feeling safe to be seen as we are.
You can find more information about becoming a member here. There is also a free meditation to try out on that link.