My Christmas Wish for You
Merry Christmas! This message will land in your inbox on Christmas Day (if you are in the Northern Hemisphere) and I wanted to take a moment and share my Christmas wish with all of you.
My life changed profoundly in 2015 when I decided I would give up alcohol. I knew I wanted something different, but I had no idea that this life would be better than my wildest dreams! I was simply ditching booze because I needed to change something. I had a sense it was alcohol that might be standing in the way of a more fulfilling life, but I didn’t know for sure. Now I do.
My Christmas wish for all of you is to discover how much bigger and brighter and better life can be when we stop hiding and numbing and tamping down our true self. It’s not that giving up alcohol in itself creates this change, but instead, it allows us to discover a part of ourselves that we have not yet met. A part that is vulnerable and messy and beautiful. A part that wants to be seen and wants to shine. This takes time and work – we will have to do hard things, but the reward is a bold and courageous life. A life where we can be fully ourselves, and we can learn to love ourselves again.
I want to keep this short, but it has been on my heart to share this wish for all of you and all of your loved ones. May we be brave enough to share the deepest parts of ourselves with one another so that we may be blessed by the human spirit within each of us.
