January 2024

January Newsletter - 2024

Happy New Year!

PHEW! We made it! What a year 2023 has been. Our world has experienced distressing times. Our communities have been put through treacherous natural disasters. Our families are struggling.

But guess what? YOU DID IT! WE did it! And we keep doing it, day after day after day. And we can KEEP on doing it! We’ve got this!

I do hope you are enjoying some time off with your friends and/ or family during this time.

What does the New Year mean to you? With a “fresh start” feeling, it often can feel exciting yet overwhelming to look at the coming of a New Year. Will you take time to reflect on 2023 and determine what you accomplished and what you want to accomplish? Will you create new goals? Will you forge ahead “as is”?

I hope that your 2023 has had many moments of pleasure and joy, peace and harmony, growth and learning. I pray that your 2024 will be filled with more of these moments to cherish and ponder. No matter how you decide to handle the blank slate of 2024, know that I am eager to be a part of the process for you, your family member, or friend.

Happy New Year, and while you’re out there, if you can..

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Blessings,

Shara

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