Happy new year, lovely healers who look at my blog!

I noticed this year that I saw a lot of people struggle, people who said it wasn’t a good year for them. I’ve noticed plenty of other healers and friends say they’ve observed the same. To be honest with you, 2023 contained a fair amount of struggle for me as well. If your 2023 wasn’t the shiniest, how do we make sure 2024 is better? And if your 2023 was pretty shiny actually, how do we make sure 2024 is even better?

I’m not doing resolutions

When I have a lot that I need to do and a lot that needs changing, I can get a bit carried away with the goal setting. I write the mother of all To-Do-Lists for any ideas I have, sometimes setting myself up for a really hard slog (or worse – for failure). So I am going to try to avoid relentless goal setting this year.

That said, I am a person who needs real things to do, and a real way to check in and see that I am on track. (I am not writing a list. I am not writing a list. But….what do I do without the list??) I’ve seen people posting things like this year I will be kind, or this year I will love myself, or this year I will be open. And that’s all lovely and everything – I have no issue with the sentiments of course! – but how do I check in with myself if my stated ideal is so vague and lofty? And more, importantly, how can I ask myself “how loving have I been this week, compared to last week?”, without disappearing up my own new age ego?

Alas a life of new age vagueness is not for me. Operating without directionality and form isn’t going to get it done, and yet over scheduling and listing isn’t the answer(even though my brain says otherwise). 2024 is a year of great transformative and creative energy and, if I’m going to feel the best I can this year I have to get out of my head and really ground myself in this ride.

Those of you who know me know that doesn’t come to me so easily. But fear not – I have a solution! (A solution is not a list.)

Purpose needs to be felt

If grounding in physical presence is tricky for you, you are not alone among healers. It is a really common issue for us. We are sensitive and visionary, plus most of us found our way to the healing path through trauma so, hello detachment from our bodies.

I live more in my thoughts than I would like, and less in grounded actions. I am better at this than I used to be, but I would like find this presence easier. So this year, instead of writing lists of resolutions and executing my ideas, I am resolved to live this year On Purpose.

What does it mean?

Simply put, it means I am going to feel my way into my development and my actions this year – I think that’s where the next level of knowledge and understanding I am looking for can be found.

Instead of goals, Feelings. Yes, I know, yucky feelings – but this is not my new age ego. Being in alignment isn’t just a phrase healers use, it is a real thing, and we can feel it in our bodies. When we are drawn to do something, we can feel whether it’s right. If we get really good at listening to it, we can learn the difference between the feeling of resisting something that’s right but scary, and knowing we’ve trodden on the wrong road and need to choose another.

Instead of lists, Presence. If you are not an obsessive list maker like me, feel free to switch the word lists for vision board, and then throw your new year vision board on the fire. (Full disclosure, I am now unafraid to be a pariah in the healing world and I admit: I don’t like vision boards I think they suck. But if you like them, you should keep them – just don’t live in them or confuse them for action, like I sometimes like to do with my lists.) I love an affirmation but, darlings, they are bullshit if we don’t use them for what makes them useful, which is to grab hold of the feeling they bring so we can embody it. Sometimes I spend so much time looking forward to where I want to be that I am not here enjoying the cool things I do to get there. Lists and vision boards can take away from ourselves. In 2024 I want to be grounded. I want to be present.

Instead of plans, Purpose. Why that path, that course, that choice? Alignment is really just making sure that the stuff we do matters, in terms of who we want to be and how we want to move through the world. It is not our purpose to gather qualifications or to earn money or to find a soul mate. But all of those things can be part of how we are able to live our lives with purpose – qualifications can let us be in service, earning money can give us freedom, good relationships can let us break old patterns and see the world in a new way. All of it can be love and divine service. Purpose is going to be the question I ask myself as I make choices and work hard this year. Am I doing this On Purpose?

Get into your own purpose this year

Or, if you think my chosen word of purpose for this endeavour is silly, get into your own *insert inspiring energy here* this year. If you are a healer, I can help…

Free support

I made you a present! This is the On Purpose journey, and it is designed to help you into an awareness of what comes next on your purpose-filled journey this year. A simple drum journey to the Lower World, the meditation calls in:

• a guide to assist you in living in alignment with your purpose this year (or identifying it, if that’s where you’re at)
• an element, to show you the quality that can help you navigate this year without deviating from your path
• a word/phrase/theme to keep in mind as you go in to 2024
• there is no fourth thing, I just wanted to let you know I have noticed this is a list.

All of this is very symbolic, but you know I love that. Straight answers are awesome, but I am happy if this journey plants symbolic knowings into your heart and mind instead. Sometimes, that’s how shamanic journeying works.

Low cost support

Propolos, my monthly subscription service. is only £18 a month and is full of yummy new and full moon healings, a monthly Healing Path reading and additional teachings or healings as are appropriate to the times. This month the teachings are on “truth and alignment” and “Need” – perfect for the January energy. Full info is here.

Healing Through the Wheel of the Year will open for Imbolc soon enough, but the winter healings are still delightfully appropriate and very powerful for this month. At £45 for 3 days of teaching and healing, it is an accessible route in to deep work this month – read more here.

Reiki Re-empowerment is a 21 day Reiki journey and I am already having so much fun with it that I’ve decided to leave it open for the rest of the month. You can read the full curriculum and sign up for a 21 day Reiki journey here.

Deeper investment

If you have very specific transformation and deep healing you want to achieve in 2024, it might be time to sign up for the Oak Programme – my 6 week tailor-made intensive mentoring and healing package. I am opening my books to a few more Oak Programme clients between now and April, so get in touch if you would like to take this step. Read about the Oak Programme here.