This I know...

It's a New Year. Again.

Not everyone made it through last year. I lost my father, and also a friend and many of my loved ones lost people they loved too.

Personally, I spent a lot of time in reflection in 2015. I thought deeply about my loss, about my relationships (I've had a particularly hard time letting go of someone who was no good for me) and about my place in the world.

I'm pretty emotional, a lot of the time my heart rules my head.

I have trouble letting go sometimes, I attribute this stubborn streak to my dutch blood.

I'm a deep thinker, this can be impractical at times.

I've kind of floated through 2015, allowing myself time to grieve. I've had moments of motivation and inspiration mixed in with moments of despair and deep sadness. I've had days when I didn't want to get out of bed and days when I've been enthralled with learning new things and wanting to share them with the world.

I've never been great at goal setting (I'm a pisces so I tend to go with the flow) but as I sit and write this blog post I'm flipping back and forth from here to facebook and reading all of the inspirational quotes and goals that people are posting. I take them in with a grain of salt knowing that we all have good intentions on this one day of the year but then human nature takes over some of those goals take a back seat to everyday life or perhaps that's just me.

The more I learn about myself the more I come to know that we are all the same but also very different.

This I know.

We love, we laugh, we have joy and we have sorrow, we have shadows that we are scared to reveal and we have inspirations that we want to shout from the roof tops. We are vulnerable and strong. We are dark and we are light. We are everything and we are nothing.

We are all here and we are all learning......

May you choose to be brave in 2016 - share your shadow and your light and see where that takes you.