Me Time ✨

Hello, Cadre fam. My name is Jean Mitchells. I'm coming in on this beautiful Sunday, calling in from my little sanctuary that I like to call it. It's a little studio that I do some of my work out of and I'm excited to be here today. So on Sundays I like to get on here and talk about me time. And I feel like with the holiday and the holiday weekend, it's a good time to do that. Sunday mornings I also teach spin classes. So you're seeing me with a little post spin hair nice and sweaty. But on this holiday weekend, I'm gonna share a couple things.

So today, if you are into moonology at all, it's a new moon. Today is significant in moonology because it's a new moon. For any of our Sagittarius friends out there, it's a new moon in Sagittarius. It is also Mercury in retrograde. And I'm just going to say, why are all these things important whether you believe in new moons or not? We are entering in today, the first day of the last month of 2024. This time is a time for us to slow down, even though the world is telling us to speed up and be chaotic.

It's holiday season. We have a lot of emotions that happen, a lot of mixed emotions that happen, you know, and for some of us, holidays are fond memories. And for some holidays are a time of loneliness or sadness, of grief. There's no right or wrong way. And if we remember back to when we were kids, some holidays were really great, some holidays might not have been. Hello Kar Jazz. How are you doing today? Hope you're great. My name is Jean. Nice to have you here. So I just shared with everyone that today, December 1st, first day of the last month of the year, it is also moonology wise.

Today is a new moon. It's Mercury in retrograde. And the energy that's surrounding us right now is energy of slowing down. If you work with moonology or if you don't, it doesn't matter. Every month I try to do just a reset, a reconnect and some intention setting. And if you do follow moonology, this particular moon is really about rectifying some things in our past. So if you think about, you know, holiday season and emotions, old relationships, parents, grief, all of it like we are a swirl of energy and experiences.

And as we get older, those those experiences can become more prominent. Those experiences can fall by the wayside because we push them in the back. But today, with this type of energy, it's really about taking a pause to reflect back, seeing all the things that you've accomplished so far. So in 2024, you started the year. Many people start the year with a plan or an intention or a goal, an aspiration. And now's the time to just check in. So where are you at with it? If you're working with Moonology, it's also the time for us to reimagine and intentionally using the word re, reimagine what our possibilities are.

And that could be for the rest of this month, the rest of this year, reimagining what the possibility for us for next year could look like and just taking that time. So, Karjaz, when you take some time for you or you think about your 2024 or anyone else listening in or on replay, what are you celebrating right now of what you've accomplished in 2024? Are you on target for what you had hoped? Are you slightly behind? Did the target get thrown out the window February 1st? It doesn't matter. So when I look back, you know, I look back on a few things.

One, my intention 2024 was grace, gratitude, and give back. And so when I look back over 2024, how did I do? What did I do? So grace to me was about having more grace with myself. I've been going through a grieving period of losing my parents and running marathons to try to do good and give back and raise a bunch of money for charities that aligned with either my mom and dad or people that I know. And gratitude. So having gratitude for the work that I've done this year and the new opportunities that have come up for me, I do a lot of sound bath meditations for people, and I've really been able to do a lot of those this year.

And it's really been a gift to be able to do that. And now if I think about reimagining what's coming for the rest of 2024. So December reimagine, what might grace and gratitude and give back look like, if that's your intention or theme? For me, it's holding more space for myself through the holiday season because the holiday seasons don't feel the same anymore. So how might I find a new way to make them feel special again? And special doesn't have to be rah, rah, hooray, super exciting, lit, off the charts, or whatever the cool kids are using right now for that phrase.

For me, it's really about how do I make it a space where I don't want to Just fast forward through the month and hit December 26th and be like, great. Made it. So for me, it's holding space and gratitude for all the little things that are coming up. The little invitations to go to brunches or the invitations to go to coffee or for me, it's even slowing down this month and taking time to reconnect with the people that I haven't been able to. So, you know, for me today on this new moon and thinking about slowing down and taking a pause today, I'm taking time to just journal a little bit.

And I'm not a great journaler. I was in a really toxic relationship a super long time ago, and they used my writing kind of as a way against me. And so I've always kind of had this mental block. So I've been working this year on writing more again. And so today I'm just going to find some time to journal and journal specifically for me around what are some things I can reimagine for this month? And reimagining again is about putting new attention into what I want to get out of this month or this week or the rest of this year.

It's funny because I don't believe doing these. January 1st, I have this big goal for the year. I find that when I do that, I fall off the map with it right away. Like last year I decided I would use a day planner to just map out when I was doing all my events so I could visually see it. And I think by like January 2nd, it was out the window. I'm kidding. It lasted a little longer than that, but not much. And so I like to just set intentions. And for me, grace, gratitude, and give back was that intention.

So as I think about reflecting on the year already and taking some intentional time to do that, I am going to journal about that today. And then I'm also going to add in a few other journal things that are going to include what am I afraid of this month? What are my fears for this month, or my fears going into 2025. And I say that with intention because we all have something that holds us back. And when I write about my fears, I can actually start to problem solve around them. I can name them. When we name something, it takes away some of its stigma or power because now what I can do is I can create a plan to try to work through it, or I can try to understand more about why something is a fear for me.

So, for example, I mentioned it already, the holiday season. It's not a fear of Mine, but it's. It's not a joy right now. Holidays with my mom and dad were like my everything. I would go all out. I would wear costumes like antlers and outfits to make them laugh, and I would go buy an insane amount of gifts for them because I loved just watching them open gifts the way that they loved me watching open gifts when I was a kid. And so without them in my future, I feel lost, and I don't know where to put all of that energy.

And so my fear is that Christmas just won't be fun without them. My fear is that I won't have purpose anymore with Christmas. And so when I can name that, I get emotional, you can see, but when I can journal about it is I can really come up with what is my truth around that too. And so spending time just being vulnerable with yourself, you don't have to share it with anybody. And, you know, if you're worried that someone is going to try to use it against you or find it, burn it, or tear it up after you write it out.

But the simple act of taking time to write those things out, writing out your gratitudes, writing out your fears, writing maybe a couple action items to overcome your fears, reflecting on the things that you want to rectify this year or make better or make good on, reimagining what's to come and writing down what that new imagery looks like for you can be super powerful. And I say writing, and it's funny because we have notes on phones or iPads or computers. We can do a Word document, we can do all these different things.

But my invitation to you is to simply pick up an actual pen, colored pen, piece of paper, a pencil, and write the things out on, like, actual paper. Practice your penmanship or write in the scribble that you have. It doesn't matter because it's 110% just for you. And what I find is that when you can do that act of writing, it sticks. You can process it differently and better. You can put an action plan around it, but that tactile nature of actually writing versus typing cements it a little bit more in your brain.

And then if you did a ceremony with it and like I said, light it on Fighter or tear it up. And if it's a fear, you can actually physically let the fear go and tear it up and let it go that way. So it's a new moon today. Again, if you're a moonologist. If you're a Sagittarius, it's a new moon in Sagittarius. It's a time to reflect, to rectify, and to reimagine. It's Mercury in retrograde, so I'm sure we've seen our social media blown up about Mercury in retrograde, and I always feel really a little extra wonky during that time.

But it's a time to just slow down. It's a time to read the contracts, see if anything got missed. It's a time to take a pause and really be and move and do with intention and purpose. And that doesn't mean you have to slow everything down, but it does mean to have more consideration for what it is that you're doing and applying. So today on me time, a little share about my passion around Moonology. Also an opportunity to take some time to Journal. It's December 1st. We have one month left of 2024.

Prepare your mind for 2025 and maybe make the distinction between the two years less of a distinction and just a path that you continue to move forward on finding time to journal. As I mentioned, I'm not great at it. I actually have some fears around it, but I love to write. So working through that, identifying it, naming it, journaling about anything, and reimagining what the possibilities are for the rest of this month. I'm here on Monday for Personal Development Day. I'd love to see you then, but until then I hope you have the best day and I will talk to you all soon.