✨ HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here’s to an amazing 2025!✨

Well 2024 has been yet another wild rollercoaster, my personal year 9, so with that I’m hoping the 3 years of crazy has come to a neat little end!😂🙈🙏🏼🤞🏽

This one I think has been the hardest, some realities set in and living by myself in my own home has definitely highlighted areas I need to work on and patterns of behaviour I’m leaving behind moving forward.

From starting the year working on a film set with the van and some lovely peeps, Getting the keys and moving into my own home, making it mine over the course of the year and finally having a safe space for me and Charlie after being nomads for a while - I will forever be grateful for my home and all my friends that talked me out of nearly bailing on purchasing it!😂🙈❤️

This year has been hard when I realised that I wasn’t aligned with the coffee vans anymore, so I sold up and then felt very lost. I didn’t have my own business anymore, I didn’t have a direction on where I wanted to go and I just didn’t know what to do with myself. It had hit me that I was living alone for the first time ever and had properly hit that my long term relationship had ended, we weren’t gonna get back together. That was a hard pill to swallow.

I’ve then tried to see if I could do the 9-5 office job and have struggled bad. The biggest challenge I’ve faced this year (apart from the perils of dating😂) has definitely been battling my own mental health. This year has caught me off guard, when I’ve questioned everything and have got to some of the lowest points I’ve ever felt. 

On reflection, this has been another mad chapter of the book. I have had some amazing highs, but some of my lowest lows. My biggest lessons and teachings… 

First, I have to love and accept myself as I am. I can always aim to improve and progress but I need to show myself the same compassion and kindness that I show my friends.  I need to remember what I bring to the table - in all my unique and wonderful ways and don’t let anyone doubt myself again. And we’re all on our own timeline, just have to trust it’ll all work out the way it’s meant to and the time it’s meant to ❤️

Most importantly, I think this year has actually made me realise what true love is. It’s not the fairytales that I still do believe in and hope for. Nope, my true love stories are the amazing and incredible friendships I have (you know who you are 😉) and my incredible Mum and Nan being in my life. ❤️

What I’ve realised the most is true friendship really is the best gift and I am incredibly lucky with the friends I have in my life. They really are my ride or dies and that’s the thing with friendship - there’s no ring, no commitment ceremony, no declaration of love (to be fair I do declare my love to my friends alot ) but it’s a quiet, secure, safe love. Never leaves you doubting yourself, instead it’s the support, advice, hugs, tough love when needed, the cheerleading, the belief, the laughter, the tears and everything in between that helps you come back to yourself. You may not talk everyday, or see each other for a while, but they’re there when you need them, that unspoken promise to love all of you, faults and all, through the hard times and the good ❤️

My friends, mum and Nan have been there for me these past 3 years more than some of my friends I knew for a very long time. They’ve shown me what true love is, supporting, encouraging me and cheering me on to be the best version of myself and for that I’m truly grateful and will love you all til the end ❤️ I know I can be a damn right crazy bitch sometimes but thank you for all your love, patience and support, you all mean the world to me and one day I’ll fly us all to a private island to celebrate 😂 I hope I’ve given you some laughs along the way 😂😉😘❤️ and thank you to the amazing new people who have come into my life this year and become close friends - so glad we’ve met!🥰❤️

Love you all so much and here’s to an amazing 2025, I’m cheering you all on 😘❤️🥰