Trust.
My friend Tracy Kessler is an amazing entrepreneur and founder of Kindness Grows Here. She recently put out a proposal to her Instagram followers: choose your word for 2022. After watching her stories and reading her thoughtful post on the subject, I became consumed with what word I would choose to spend the year of 2022.
I really sat with this concept. I thought about it in the shower. I meditated. I kept spit balling words while on the treadmill. I sifted through several great words—grace, patience, bravery. All of them felt meaningful in one way or another, but then in the most random of moments, it came to me.
Trust. Trust was my word.
As each year ticks by, I become more of my true self. I feel my truth inside of me and when things become difficult or I am faced with tough decisions, I become one step closer to the truest version of myself. Like many of us, I suffered from the ever-popular people-pleasing crap that many women succumb to. I wanted to be liked, not rock the boat, be agreeable. Motherhood was the first swift kick in the ass that I needed to step into my power, and in the two years since, I kept choosing to myself over and over again.
So that led me to Trust. It takes on various meanings for me, but, at its core, I wanted to Trust in myself and my intuition. That’s it. I know that when I’m faced with a tough decision in my life, deep down, I know what my gut is telling me to do. (That doesn’t mean I’m always right, just following my own feelings). A women’s intuition is strong, as is a mother’s, and I plan to lean in to that as much as I can, even when it’s uncomfortable.
I also chose Trust because of how helpless I feel about the current state of our world.
Two years into this pandemic, no one knows anything. How to act, how to be, what decisions to make, what’s a risk worth taking and what’s not. I am choosing to Trust in our world and the path it needs to take. I will also Trust in myself to make the best decisions I can for me and my family.
It may be a long road, but I Trust in the future.