Letting Go of 2024

It's the end of the year, so it's time for my annual letting go post! I've written them for the past 7 years and you can see my previous posts at the links below: 

Letting Go of 2017: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2017/12/letting-go-of-2017.html

Letting Go of 2018: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2018/12/letting-go-of-2018.html

Letting Go of 2019 + Starting a New Decade: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2019/12/letting-go-of-2019-starting-new-decade.html

Letting Go of 2020: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2020/12/letting-go-of-2020.html

Letting Go of 2021: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2021/12/letting-go-of-2021.html

Letting Go of 2022: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2023/01/letting-go-of-2022.html

Letting Go of 2023: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2023/12/letting-go-of-2023.html

The beginning of 2024 wasn't so great for me because I was going through an anxious time and struggling with health anxiety. I started to feel a bit better but the second half of the year went downhill for me due to other issues (and anxiety on and off). I also write a mid-year reflections post and you can see 2024's here: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2024/06/mid-2024-reflections.html

If you follow numerology, the Universal Year Number for 2024 was 8, so 2025's is 9. 2024 was supposed to be an "accelerator" year which helped people push forward on their goals. (I wrote a bit about it in last year's Letting Go post.) I didn't really feel that it was that way for me though.

Gratitude List

 Things I'm grateful for this month:

• Christmas trees and lights
• Yule/the Winter Solstice
• Christmas chocolates!
  
• Christmas presents
• Hot chocolate
• Going to my first meetup with a social anxiety friendship group
• Restaurants being open later in Brighton!
• Buying new music
  

Gratitude List

 Things I'm grateful for this month:

• Going to Hove Park- I planned to go for Samhain/Hallowe'en (as part of my celebrations) but wasn't able to go till later.
• Marmite crisps- I tried the tortilla chips last month and wanted to try the crisps as well!
• Beautiful mid-late autumn colours
• Getting new glasses
• Going to Caffe Nero
• Getting inspiration online for meals
• Rochelle Armstrong's (Mixedlings) petition to create a mixed race heritage month- please sign here if you support the idea!: https://www.change.org/p/create-a-mixed-race-heritage-month
  
• Feeling inspired to write a new Feeling Your Emotions post (about peace)

Feeling Your Emotions- Peace

This is the next instalment in Feeling Your Emotions series. I started it back in 2017. The intention was to look at different emotions (such as anger, sadness and depression, fear and anxiety, peace and love) and get in touch with them, to help heal and move forward. You can read the introduction here: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2017/11/feeling-your-emotions-introduction.html

Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor, so if you're having mental/physical issues please seek medical help in addition to reading this. :)

 

I wrote a recap of all the posts so far in 2022: https://fallingpetalsuk.blogspot.com/2022/09/feeling-your-emotions-recap.html

It's now been over 2 years since I wrote that. (And 8 years ago this month since I started the whole series!) After the recap post I planned to write more in the next few months, but didn't in the end. I've been feeling very up and down and struggling at times, and haven't felt very inspired to blog much here in general. (I've been more active on my entertainment blog Star Sparkle Blog and my seasonal living blog The Seasonal Life because I don't write about as "deep" subjects on there.) However, in recent months I've felt like picking the FYE series up again. 

As I mentioned in the recap, I started with the so-called "negative" emotions, intending to work my way up to more "positive" ones. I had planned to cover love or peace next but didn't feel in a space to write about them. When I'd written the last post, I intended that the next one in the series would be peace. So here it is, although later than planned! :)

Gratitude List

 Things I'm grateful for this month:

• Deeper autumn colours
• Autumn leaves
  
• Marmite tortilla chips- I just tried them recently and want to try the crisps as well!
• Wendy's Frozen Hot Chocolate Frosty
  
• Sunshine after lots of rain
• Aileen of Lavendaire's Diary of Becoming YouTube video series- I especially enjoyed Mindfulness & The Power of Awareness (Diary #4).
  
• Hallowe'en chocolate!
  
• Halloweeen/Samhain coming up this week!
  

Gratitude List

 Things I'm grateful for this month:

• Having drinks from Krispy Kreme
  
• Madron/Mabon aka the Autumn Equinox
• Going to Hove Park
  
• Starbucks coming on Deliveroo in my area!
  
• The start of autumn colours as trees change
• Golden September light 
• Into the Magic Shop by Dr James Doty- currently reading it 
• Connecting with like-minded people online
  

Gratitude List

 Things I'm grateful for this month:

• Lammas
• Going to the park (I went for Lammas)
• Going to Burger King
  
• Going to Five Guys
• Last full month of summer
• Late summer light
• Wearing flip flops again now that the weather's finally got better!
• Listening to older music that I hadn't heard for a while