Hello love,
 
Amelia, here. It's been two months since I dropped into your inbox. Are you starting 2022 as slowly and sweetly as I am?
 
I like to open each year by picking a few words to guide my intentions for the months ahead. Last year my words were shine, support, and surrender. This year, my words are expand and discern. 
 
With these words I want to invite in more and more magical opportunities to say YES. I also want to practice the sacred act of saying NO. Expand and discern encourage me to lean into the wisdom of the both/and. I'm already finding that practice supportive as I face 2022's struggles and successes.
 
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For those of you who are new to this list, welcome! Every month or so, I'll send you a note sharing something close to my heart. Sometimes it's an essay, sometimes it's a free resource, sometimes it's a list of fun things. This month it's a gorgeous conversation I had with my friend and mentor Grace Allerdice on her podcast home—body.
 
This isn't your typical “share your story and promote your shit” kind of podcast episode. We skip those formalities and head straight to the heart of our topic—connection and service. We discuss:
  • reframing our life as an ecosystem
  • how connection is essential to our full expression
  • is service something “extra” that we do?
  • the relationship between service to ourselves + service to others
  • why taking care of ourselves doesn’t always happen first
  • how to be of service without being codependent, a martyr or a “savior”
  • the Star card in the Tarot + how it holds a vision of service
 
I hope you'll tune in to the podcast episode and let me know what you think. If you enjoy the conversation, you can also join Grace and I in the free home—body portal on Mighty Networks.
 

 
Next month I'm planning a special valentines treat for all of you (think selfies! think self-love!), and in March I'll be sharing a new podcast about leaving social media. Then in April, I'm offering a free workshop through Holisticism that I can't wait to tell you about.
 
This year is already good and bad and hard and soft and beautiful and ugly and everything in between. As you navigate 2022, I wish you the best of the both/and. Here's to expanding and discerning and expanding again, until we speak next.
xoxo, Amelia
 
P.S. If you skipped to the end, I invite you to listen to my conversation about connection & service on the home—body podcast.
 
P.P.S. If you've been reading closely you know I got married in December. Here's a preview of our wedding photos from our lovely photographer Linsey Huffaker.