My Year In Review - 2025

The Power of Surrender and Intention

The arc of a woman stepping fully into her calling, with surrender, clarity, embodiment, and deep spiritual maturity.

A Year of Surrender, Alignment, and Becoming

A personal reflection on purpose, healing, and the unfolding of something greater

This year did not begin with force.
It began with intention.

Not the kind of intention that is loud or rigid, but the kind that comes from a quiet inner knowing. A soft but powerful decision to open my mind, open my heart, and allow something greater than my own effort to lead the way.

At the start of the year, I made a conscious choice to surrender more deeply. To loosen my grip on control. To trust my purpose not as something I needed to chase, but as something that would unfold when I created the space for it.

I asked for guidance.
I asked for clarity.
I asked to be used in service of something meaningful.

And most of all, I asked to be available.

That availability shaped everything that followed.

Opening the Space for Purpose

For many years, I had been walking a dual path. On one side, my clinical background, my hands-on work, my identity as a chiropractor. On the other, the quieter but ever-growing call toward coaching, healing, and guiding women through deep inner transformation.

At the beginning of the year, I did not have a rigid plan. I had an intention to serve more women, to open myself to expansion, and to allow my work to evolve in a way that felt aligned rather than forced.

There is something deeply powerful about intention without pressure. Neuroscience tells us that when the nervous system feels safe, creative insight flows more freely. When we are not in survival mode, the brain accesses higher-order thinking, intuition, and pattern recognition. In other words, surrender is not passive. It is intelligent.

That became one of the themes of my year.

February, Roots, and Remembering

In February, I returned to Jamaica.

There is something about being on the land of your ancestors, your memories, your earliest imprints, that reorganises you at a cellular level. The body remembers what the mind sometimes forgets.

We spent several weeks at our new home. It was not fully ready yet, but it did not need to be. The most important work was happening elsewhere. My mother’s space was being prepared so she could move in, and that process carried far more meaning than bricks and walls.

Helping her settle, supporting her transition, witnessing her comfort in that space, it grounded everything for me. It reminded me that purpose is not separate from family, from lineage, from care. It is woven through them.

At the same time, there was a clear knowing. The rest of the house needed to be completed by the end of the year so the rest of the family could eventually join her. The vision expanded. The timeline clarified. The future began to feel real in a very embodied way.

That visit did something else too. It softened me. It slowed me. It brought me back into rhythm with myself.

And it planted a seed that would soon grow into something much larger.

Witnessing Transformation and Hearing the Call

During that period, and continuing into the months that followed, I coached several women through the Grow2Glow Ascension Pathway. I had always believed in the work, but witnessing these transformations in real time shifted something profound in me.

Women were reconnecting to themselves. Releasing long-held anxiety. Setting boundaries without guilt. Stepping out of survival and into clarity. The depth and speed of the shifts were humbling.

And with that came a realisation.

This work needed to reach more women.

Not every woman could commit to a fixed weekly schedule. Many were business owners, leaders, mothers, women carrying full lives. They needed flexibility without losing depth. They needed access without dilution.

That was when the idea of creating a course crystallised.

It was not a business decision first. It was a service decision. A response to what I was seeing and hearing.

I knew then that the Grow2Glow Ascension Pathway needed to exist in a form that allowed women to meet it where they were, in their own time, without losing the potency of the work.

The Summer of Creation

The summer became a season of devotion.

I spent long hours creating, refining, distilling over two decades of learning, healing, and lived experience into something coherent, structured, and accessible. The Grow2Glow Ascension Pathway course was not built from theory alone. It was built from embodiment.

Everything I included was something I had lived, integrated, tested, and proven, both personally and professionally.

At the same time, I had agreed to return to practising as a chiropractor twice a week. It was a favour to a clinic I had previously worked with, who were short-staffed. Initially, it felt like a gift. A break from sitting at a desk. A return to movement. A reminder of the joy of hands-on work.

There was something nourishing about being back on my feet, working with my hands, connecting with people in that way. It felt grounding. It felt familiar.

But as the months progressed, my body began to speak again.

Aching. Fatigue. Subtle reminders that while I loved the work, it was not sustainable long-term in the way I was doing it. This was not a failure or a disappointment. It was information.

And I listened.

Listening to the Body and Choosing Evolution

One of the most important lessons I have learned over the years is that the body is not an obstacle. It is an oracle.

The aches were not telling me to stop working. They were telling me to work differently.

That is what led me to sign up for the Spinal Flow Technique. A gentler, more sustainable approach that honours the nervous system, reduces physical strain, and aligns beautifully with the philosophy I teach in my coaching.

It felt like a bridge between worlds. An adjunct to chiropractic that allowed me to continue serving without sacrificing my own wellbeing.

That decision was deeply aligned with the work I do with women. You cannot guide people back into ease while living in quiet self-betrayal. Integrity is not just ethical. It is somatic.

September, Home, and Vision

In September, we returned to Jamaica for three and a half weeks.

This time, the experience was different. We stayed in the house with my mother. We lived the rhythm of what life would actually feel like. Morning light. Familiar sounds. Shared meals. Stillness.

There was a sense of inevitability, not rushed, not anxious, but clear. Less than eleven months to go, including December. The move no longer felt abstract. It felt embodied.

There was no inner resistance. No list of fears. No bargaining with the future.

Just excitement.

That, in itself, was a sign of growth. There was a time when any major transition would have been accompanied by anxiety, overthinking, contingency plans layered on contingency plans. This time, there was spaciousness.

Trust.

A Year Anchored in Practice

One of the quiet pillars of this year has been consistency.

I meditated almost every single morning. There were perhaps two mornings where life intervened, and even then, I made a conscious effort to return with longer, deeper practices.

This was not discipline for discipline’s sake. It was devotion.

Meditation became the space where my creations were born. Where clarity arrived. Where fear dissolved before it could root. Neuroscience supports this. Regular meditation reduces amygdala reactivity, increases prefrontal cortex function, and improves emotional regulation. Spiritually, it opens the channel for intuition, insight, and oneness.

That space of stillness has been the birthplace of everything meaningful this year.

I can feel that I have stepped into a new level of spirituality, not in an abstract sense, but in embodiment. Greater openness. Greater trust. Greater confidence in my purpose.

Not louder. Deeper.

Launching What Was Ready

As the year drew toward its close, one intention was clear. The course needed to be launched before Christmas.

And it was.

On the 1st of December, the Grow2Glow Ascension Pathway course was released into the world.

There was no frantic energy around it. No fear. No sense of forcing. Just readiness.

That is how aligned work feels. Not exhausting. Not desperate. Calm, grounded, and alive.

Grace Through the Storms

This year also brought reminders of fragility and grace.

Hurricane Melissa passed through Jamaica. Our home was untouched. A few trees lost, but structurally safe. Others were not so fortunate. The devastation many people endured was heartbreaking.

We contributed where we could. And it reinforced something that has been growing quietly in my heart.

As we move toward living in Jamaica full-time, my desire to give expands. Not just materially, but psychologically. Emotionally. Spiritually.

There is so much resilience, and also so much unspoken stress and hardship. Helping people shift their internal world, their thought patterns, their nervous systems, that is where real change begins.

That is part of what I am being called to do next.

Ending the Year with an Open Heart

As the year closes, there is no sense of regret. No catalogue of what should have been done differently.

Just gratitude.

A soulful Christmas with family. Time with my daughter and granddaughter. With my fiancé. With his family. A weaving together of love, presence, and anticipation.

There is excitement without anxiety. Expansion without fear. Purpose without pressure.

And perhaps most importantly, trust without conditions.

This year taught me that surrender is not giving up control, it is giving control to what is wiser than fear.

I am stepping forward with an open heart, a clear purpose, and a deep sense of alignment.

And I am ready for what comes next.