Beginnings can be difficult. Whether you are beginning a new job, beginning a new relationship, a new routine, or wanting to begin something NOT new with a NEW attitude.
That feeling of starting from scratch, of wiping the slate clean, can be both exhilarating and discouraging. However, there is always help, so we invite you to start a new year with tools for building your own life path.
By Alexandra Zareth y Carolina Cuervo (Raiz Arte).
Elders in my community say, to know where we are going, we must know where we are. As we begin the new Chinese year, we invite you to think about where you are in order to start the journey you want. A beginning can be a special kind of magic as it could be about a journey, a dream, a space to create and grow. And we, here at the ZoeNetwork, want to posture you for this season that requires courage and determination, if you want to write an original new story for yourself.
As a marriage and family therapist, I will be the first to recognize that where we come from is usually the lens we use to see and understand the world and this can mean, using unhelpful or even hurtful behaviors and ideologies. How we communicate, attach, feel love, respond to attention, and all sorts of things ARE influenced by where we came from and it is helpful to identify some things you believe in a few important areas in order to begin setting your intention about what you want. Setting our intention helps clarify priorities so we can focus, channel motivation and energy so we encourage growth.
With this in mind, today we want you to focus on knowing yourself.
Our diverse team might have a slightly different way of defining holistic and all fine. Here is just one exercise that helps you begin to identify your own thought-patterns (ideologies) so you decide what you will want to hold on to or release for your healthy relationships.
Holistic Sections for Relationship Wellness:
Physical | Financial | Emotional | Intellectual | Recreational | Spiritual
You can download this format HERE
With awareness comes choice.
We have the ability to create a healthy path for ourselves and just because we learned something from homes and families we grew up in and with, does not mean we need to keep those ideologies. Evaluate how your beliefs are serving you, as yourself if they are helpful and identify how you feel about these things and which beliefs you might want to shift in any or all of these particular areas of your life. The key to this new beginning is your awareness of where you are. If you would like any of our team members to walk alongside you as you begin this new journey, we are here for you.
Another lap around the sun
Starting a new year fills us with hopes and expectations to fulfill throughout the cycle we are beginning. It is the time to think very carefully about the steps we are going to take and where we want to route our objectives.
First, I invite you to think about whether every year end you feel that you have achieved everything you set out to do at the beginning. In my case, my answer is no, because I was so excited to start a year full of so many opportunities, that along the way I realized that many of those goals fell by the wayside, I now feel like Hansel and Gretel when they left crumbs in the forest to find their way back home, because I try to remember where I was at the beginning and I do not see it, I do not see a single crumb on the road. But I know that I had already passed that way.
So, going back to my goals for this year, as a continuation of last year's goals, I ask myself where am I going? Again, full of hope and invaded by the excitement that means starting a new cycle, it is like when you start something, you feel full and you enjoy it to the fullest, so I feel the same way now, wanting to start the return to the sun with all the best attitude.
If this happens to you, I invite you to keep that good attitude throughout the year, what if we set out to keep just one thing alive? And what if we managed to persevere in the same task throughout the year, instead of releasing and already, simply keep alive the flame of our purpose with something that helps you remember your goal. Can you imagine the satisfaction at the end of the year, feeling that finally one of many was achieved!
Very close to where I live, these two farmers are planting a plot of land, I do not know well what kind of planting it is, but I see in them every day a great perseverance, hard and constant work, and patience with the seed and the land; every day they are there, and they are always in the same work, that reminds me that when we want something to prosper, we must remain, we must wait for the time of the fruits, we are only attentive to keep alive the purpose through our actions.
I like to enjoy the process, so I want to leave you here some ideas to keep your energy alive in front of just one of the goals you want to accomplish this year.
There are many tools and activities that will help you to sustain this fire. I invite you to follow each of these steps which will surely lead you to feel that each beginning really has a great value in our lives when at the end we know that we will be able to celebrate the results.
Thank you for following our articles, this year we will have very interesting topics along with resources that you can use for your life processes.
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Alexandra Zareth
Carolina Cuervo
Raíz Arte Studio
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