Hello everyone and welcome to a new episode of the Awaken Together podcast. I'm Kat.
I'm Jen. And this is going to be our season finale of season five and the last episode of the year.
Woo! We made it! We made it. What a year 2023 has been. In this episode, we're really excited to
kind of just reflect on the year that this was and hopefully inspire some reflection for you as well
as we go along. We're going to start off with sharing a bit about our Spotify raps. It was
so fun to see. So Jen, I'll pass that over to you to share some steps. Yeah, it's always so fun when
we get the Spotify raps because it's just like such a... It's so fun to have gratitude and hold
space for just all the changes. Like this podcast is so intuitive and been so easy for me and Kat
to kind of integrate into our life. And then, yeah, just to see how it's grown with our community and
all of the listeners is so fun. So a few things that we want to share. We got to post on the
Instagram page too, but we were listened to in 69 countries. Great number. Great number. We were the
top five podcasts for 492 of you and the top podcast for 76 people, which is so amazing. Thank you to
all who are listening. And we created 808 minutes of content for you guys, which is just such a cool
number. Kat had a little side. You said it was the frequency of this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So 808,
it's like a big number in bass music. It's like the frequency that a lot of bass music is aligned
with. So I'm like, hell yeah, 808 creation, abundance. Here we go. So thanks for being
Vibee guys. So what we're here to say and we really do appreciate the growth and just listening and
traveling this awakening journey with us. It's actually wild that we are now at the end of season
five when this was just a little whim idea one day. And here we are just like so many years later.
And yeah, we really appreciate you all. So grateful. Yeah, what a journey it's been. I can't believe it's
our third year really doing this. We're heading into our third year. We started this little
pod in 2020. So here we are now. We've grown so much. We have as people, as speakers, I think,
host. So yeah, huge. And for this episode, so we have done this at similar end of year episodes
previously. And we definitely invite you to refer back. We had an episode already with a guided
meditation for a previous year in review. And in this one, we wanted to provide you just some
journaling prompts and kind of share our own reflection of the year that we've had. And we're
also going to use the same prompts not only to review 2023, but also kind of to set in motion
intention for 2024. And me and Kat are fresh off of just having a little vision board party. We
just made our vision boards for the year and got to review it. Me and Kat also started our periods
today. We're synced. Yeah, just a side note in Mercury retrograde sitting here. Really in
sunk with everything happening. And yeah, we have just spent some time just talking through some of
the year and we just wanted to share it with you. So as an overview, we are going to break this into
four categories, home, mind, body and spirit. And we'll go over our own processing so you can hear.
So if you want to journal along with the episode, you can get your journal and just kind of separate
the pages into four sections so that you can kind of think through the different categories and which
things that have happened over 2023 kind of like pinball into all of these different sections.
Yeah, this is truly I get so excited for this time of year. It's my it's one of my favorite
times of year. It's so funny the ending of it. But I find so much beauty and power in sitting down,
journaling, actually reflecting on this year's teachings. I think it can get forgotten like
all the little things, all the things that at the time feel like the big things and then more
things just happen that feel bigger, that everything starts to kind of get forgotten or
getting it gets stored away into little compartments of our mind that like the memories there. But
it's not when we think back on the year like it's not really loud. And so this exercise has been such
a powerful ritual in my life. I know in yours too, Jen. Been doing this for years and years.
Yeah, because if we don't take this time to intentionally sit down and collect all of the
blessings, the lessons in the year, it will truly get forgotten. And so we make a little
journaling archive, write it down, store it, and then we can take all the lessons and begin to
integrate them into our greater lives to never be forgotten. And this is what it means to live
intentionally live consciously. And we got this concept. So Kat and I have shared this many times
in the podcast that Yoga Girl podcast was something we were both listening to. It's what ended up
leading us to meet each other. And this comes from Rachel Brathen who had like broke down this
concept of breaking it into whole mind, body, spirit. And because I have years of this now,
it's also been really fun just to kind of keep building on it. So if this is new to go into
kind of a deeper reflection, this system is really just like a fun way to categorize.
Yeah. And like Jen mentioned, we're going to go through those four categories, whole mind, body,
and soul or spirit. And in last year's episode, we went through a full meditation
to really like help you close your eyes, reflect and watch the year as if it were a movie in your
mind. So if you'd like to do that before this episode or before you really get into your journaling,
you can reference back to the episode we posted on December 30th, 2022. And it's going to be
very similar activity with the journaling, but just an extra meditation to help you drop in
in that one. Yeah. So let's start this off Kat. So beginning with the home category and I can start
us and overall my word of the year was experience. And I have sat on the pod and to Kat many times,
like I picked an ambitious word because I experienced so much this year. And I think home
was like a pretty hefty category for me as far as what went down in 2023. So I actually spent four
months of this year living in Chicago and I did a travel assignment there. So my sense of home
had to really shift. Not only was I living in like a completely different city and a completely
different space and leaving my home here in Denver behind, but I also then had to kind of figure out
what home meant very internally, not just externally because there was such a shift in
groundedness that I could tap into because I didn't have any of my normal surroundings. I think that
was just like super introspective for me. And then even leaving Chicago and going back to Denver
took such an adjustment too because my yeah, my sense of home was just so kind of shaky and bumpy,
but I really think that I built like what makes me feel grounded and safe kind of within in a
deeper way, which kind of falls into some other categories. And then under home too, we like to
look at not just what shifted in home life, but what also shifted with kind of like family,
family life. And I actually got to spend some really, really good quality time with family. My
grandma lives pretty close to Chicago. So I got to spend some really nice one-on-one time with her.
I had my family come up from Florida a few times. And yeah, there's always so many layers of healing
to just be with my family because I've shifted so much as a person. So it's always, it doesn't
necessarily lead to tons of shift and how my family orient. They're pretty kind of set in their ways,
but it's always really beautiful to see how little that kind of shakes me up and how little I respond
to it now just from my growth. But another huge layer of family this year was Danny and I have
come out as Pauly. We have been exploring that lifestyle and we ended up opening up to my in-laws,
Danny's family about this. So there was a lot of vulnerability and shift with coming out with this
new information. I think there was a lot of processing, lots of emotion. It really went on a
roller coaster and ended up landing in a beautiful spot. But that was also very vulnerable for me.
I'm so used to keeping secrets and not going into stuff because of my upbringing and just not
really having a safe space. So to be vulnerable about something happening in life and come out
about it way louder and openly and have to have really intentional conversations was also really,
really huge. And I think, yeah, I think with being able to share Pauly with my sister and my
cousins and just some of my family members knowing who my safe spaces are that have kind of grown
with me and accept just lots of layers of me that meant a lot to. And yeah, I've just got to see the
shift. So home for you, Kat. Such a big category. And it's like your friendships, relationships,
family life, home life. Oh, it's just so much. What a year it's been.
Yeah. Yeah. So Kyle and I celebrated being in our physical home, the one that we bought
March or really February 2022. We've been here for almost two years now. So we celebrated a year
in this home. And with this year, our big home project was landscaping the backyard. It looks
so good. So we spent a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of care and energy in doing that. And
now we love it. We have this really big space to call our own. And we've got grass, and we've
got rocks and mulch and plants. So it feels really good to have a little oasis back there.
And man, this was a massive year for our relationship for Kyle and I, our marriage,
so much. So we found this amazing couple's therapist. This is our third one that we've
worked with, but she's by far the best. Of course, she doesn't accept insurance. So that was like
a hard pill to swallow, but we're like, it's so worth it. So if anyone else is out there, like kind
of deciding, you know, if they're already working with someone who does couples therapy or if they're
trying to get into this route of really deepening and honing your communication skills and any
issues that you have really, it can benefit literally any and every couple. Because there's
just so much to learn and having someone kind of highlight the shadows and mostly what you're
doing really well is so validating. So that's been incredible. We've worked on our relationship so
much. We've worked on finances together, our viewpoints, our perspectives and how to come
together and have a deeper level of understanding on that. Sex has been a big one for us, just like
how to after 12 years of being together, like how to continue having strong levels of intimacy,
which, whoo, there's so much you can do, so much you can learn. And kids was really a big
goal that I had for this year. I've shared on the podcast before how I've known that I want kids and
I've had that clarity for a really long time and how Kyle hasn't and he had like a very different
upbringing. And so his experience of arriving in that decision has been not as clear and straightforward
and it's taken a lot of therapy on his own, an individual therapy, as well as in our couple's
therapy. And just this past week, really, December, mid-December, we finally came to a decision. So
years in the making, Kyle has decided, I'm so excited to share, that he wants to have kids. So
things are feeling really clear and just so grounded now in our relationship and everything
has just gotten so much easier now that we have this massive potential roadblock for our futures
moved away. And it was really hard, really dark, really low points this year together. And I'm just
elated, like no words to share how at peace I am now that we've come out the other side together.
And this whole process has been incredibly painful, but it's also brought us stronger together. So
amazing communication skills. I just kind of feel like we're at this all time high after being at
this all time low, literally weeks ago. So it's been like a lot, but really looking forward to
looking forward to just holding where we are now for as long as we can. And knowing that there will
be hard times in the future and that all the work that we've done won't go away. Like healing is
not linear. So just keeping all that in mind too. And we had a car crash in late October, which was
really scary and really crazy and brought up a lot of stuff. But like it actually ended up on the
better. It ended up better than it was before because we got more money for a new car or insurance
premium. Yeah, it's gone up. But insurance also sent my friend who was in the crash with us, Margie,
$1,000. And she wasn't injured. So she just gets to use that on rent. So it's great. During a
transition, she's going through too. So glad you're okay. It was scary. It was so scary. Yeah,
that's a whole story. But yeah. And then for me, myself kind of in this home category, I had a
coming out of my own coming out of coming in. I don't know. Oh man, yeah. And like April, May of
this year, I had this realization as we were working on our sexuality in couples therapy that I
myself like have this attraction to women and that I'm by and just kind of grappling with what
that means because yeah, I am married and in a monogamous relationship that won't be opened anytime
soon. And so just grappling with like, okay, the grief of never being able to explore that and
just like being okay with that really. So processing through all of that and getting to decide like
what this means for me as a person and being able to like embrace this queer side of me. And then
also have feelings that like, yeah, I kind of wish this wasn't here because my life was a lot more
convenient and easy before this realization. So a lot in the home category for me too. We had so
many so many of this was like woven in with parallels to it was really wild. I think we both
had to learn so much about like, yeah, sitting with feelings, sitting with like communication
and like a completely different way, holding space for just layers of subconscious stuff coming up
like, whoo, a lot. So much. It was yeah, it's always nice being cats journeys are always
complimenting in the ways that it needs to be to hold like really beautiful space for each other. And
yeah, we've needed a lot of that this year and it's been crazy. All right, and then shifting
into the mind mode. I feel like we need a deep breath to cleanse home. Yeah, I love that.
I could use it. That was our biggest one. Yeah, that was a big one. Yeah. All right, sweet, nice,
tall, seat deep breath in out. Yes. Yes, mind. Yeah, this category, I think had a lot of like
really beautiful energy behind it. Like looking at mental health, I could categorize it as
completely chaotic. But honestly, I am so grateful that I actually experience the things that come
up to such a fuller degree that I don't even really want to label it as chaotic because it was. But
it also I've fought like hell to be able to shift my perspective, shift my mindset, sit with more
feelings. And you know, even if it felt really intense at times and some of that blends into
like body, I also feel like I really gave so much space because of just the mental growth that I've
had. So there was just a ton of mindset shifts. I felt very vulnerable this year, like very exposed.
Nothing felt, yeah, I wouldn't say that it was all like met with like full confidence, but it was
just kind of a witnessing and a watching of a lot of layers of myself kind of just being
worked through because I had so much perspective change with all of the shifts happening. But
I think mentally I held like, yeah, I held space for the uncertainty. I watched it. I, you know,
I think I stayed pretty reflective throughout a lot. I read 50 books this year. So my head got
lots of information. And that was really fun too. I've been kind of getting back into fantasy,
not just I love learning still. So I read a lot of nerdy books too. But yeah, it was nice to kind
of explore going into fantasy at times too, and just letting myself like daydream and think through
different things and giving space for wild thinking. And books are such a catalyst for me for,
yeah, every book I read, I feel like it kind of like I parallel it through so much of my life.
And Kat and I got kind of nerdy and reading. Yeah, medical intuitive, psychic medical intuition.
We went down some like, yeah, fun like learning so we can keep integrating more levels of our
our healer selves and our psychic selves. And that's been really kind of fun too.
And then yeah, I'm still making lots of content. I do creative content. I have, I made it to 160,000
followers on TikTok. And it's good in my mental like brain. I have, you know, such an entrepreneurial
spirit that's never going to go away. And it was just nice to keep building momentum on that,
even through all the changes, I have like a really steady goal of like where I want to keep taking
my virtual stuff and all the little, yeah, all the little avenues of business stuff is just always
good. And it was on the forefront. I had some pretty crazy shifts I had, I almost ended up on a Netflix
show, which was wild to hold space for because I was like in the final meeting with executive
producers. So that ended up falling through, but it was still such a journey to see like what my
mindset does when there's like huge angst and then nothing you can really do about it. That was kind
of like a theme. And yeah, just like kind of realizing that I have to just keep embodying what I
want. And then the things will come, you know, as they come. And if it moves forward, it's meant
to move forward if it goes a different direction it's meant to. But just like letting my mindsets
really be fully centered around just the growth that I want, the deeper healing that I want,
and being okay, even if that mindset is sometimes a little chaotic and not easy to grasp. And I
think I really like kind of played that dance this year. Yeah. So good. Yeah, lots of growth, man.
Yeah. So mine for me was super interesting. I marked a year and a half of being off of
hormonal birth control. And with that, I felt such a massive shift in pretty much every area of my
life. Like I had no idea how how strongly I was affected by those hormones that were artificially
in my body for 15 years. But they really did like shape a lot of my personality, a lot of my
energy, a lot of even my attraction, like that realization of being by like that came this year
after my hormones started to settle out. Truly, like it has been not even a full year of having a
normal cycle. It's been, I don't know, like six months at this point of having a normal healthy
hormone cycle. And so much has changed. My moods, like I have more feelings now, which we've learned
in love. I have more feelings now. And now it's actually, it's a good thing, of course, but like
it's not as comfy. It's not as easy. It's inconvenient saying, you know what? Exactly.
Exactly. But it's actually like, in terms of my relationship with Kyle, my husband, like it's
actually really helped that because he naturally is such a strong feeler, I'm a little cancer, I
always say. And it's kind of helped remove like gaps with us in our relationship, because I can just
more easily meet him where he's at, and he can understand and hear like the hard things that
are happening for me without having to dig for them, because they're just more available to me
and more present. So I always used to joke how I was like the steadiest person and I was, but it
was artificial. Unfortunately, it had a little like muting from the hormones. So now it's just
like it's taken the veil off, it's taken that layer off, and it's just very present and real
and authentic. So another thing this year is I've practiced a lot of self advocacy. So at work is
probably like the biggest area of that, like holding boundaries, asking for bonus structures,
holding to it, and holding to like the hours that'll work, the things I'm willing to do,
the things I'm not. So this just comes from like a really strong sense of self worth, which I'm
so grateful to have and it's just a result. It's not like how they get it. Exactly. It's a result
of all the hard freaking work that I've had to do to get here and will continue to do. So yeah,
that self advocacy in my relationships, like asking for what I need, sharing how I'm feeling in the
moment without letting it build up and then having a little like outburst, when I've reached my max.
So all those big things, listening still to lots of self help books, like Jen said,
I'm a big audible girly. So whenever I walk my dog, I'm constantly listening and taking in
different stimuli in terms of like, we're air science. Can you tell? We do. You tell? The input
is unreal. Taking in learning growing all the time. Yeah, so couple books, couple podcasts,
it's just feeding my soul in all the good ways. But I feel like I'm sensing it might be time for a
little bit of fiction. Yeah, let me give you my fairy smut. I know, I think I'm ready. Everyone's
telling me in the fairy smut and like, bring it on. Here we go. It's time. I'm ready. Yeah,
right? Yeah. So also this year has been a lot of like deepening beautiful friendships. It hasn't
been a lot of like new friendship forming kind of on purpose, which might sound bad, but it's not.
It's like noticing how much energy I have and how I do have tons of energy, but I want to reserve
that energy for the people who I have in my life, who I love so much in developing these friendships
and growing them. It's been such a highlight of this year and seeing which ones, you know, naturally
grow and strengthen like ours, of course, consistently over time. And then which ones, you know, it's
like kind of take a turn and it's not like a intentional turn as much as it is just like
where we are in life and how that's okay. And that's actually really healthy and natural and normal.
And just like life relationships will ebb and flow too. So our little women's group here in
Denver gets a special little shout out because we've had so much fun this year. Murder mystery
party. We did group trip. It was like, it's just been really, really beautiful to watch the closeness
of that. The escape room party. Yeah, it's like such a safe, vulnerable space where we've all shared
and cried and held each other and held space in so many ways that like getting out and doing
things together has been a big theme of this year. So nice and fun. And then yeah, we had
Electric Forest. We had Burning Man, which I'll talk more about in Seoul. But in terms of Electric
Forest, we decided this is our last year of going for a little while, which is so sad. Like we had
to really get some closure this year at the festival. We just decided, you know, we've been eight years
and so much has happened. So much has changed for us. And the festival isn't changing as much as we
are. And so we just want as quickly, I should say, we just want a little bit of space in between now
and the next time we revisit to see what other magic they create there and allow that time and
space and funds to be put towards some newness. I love that. Yeah. All right. Breathing in and out
for mind. Yes. Inhale, mind, fill up with all that. Send it out, let it go. Nice. Yes. All right.
Into the body, we go. Yeah, body for me definitely had some good shifts too. So obviously with
being Polly and exploring new relationships and being in another partnership, like the layers of
learning my body in whole new ways has been so real. Lots of, which by the way, you guys love to
let's talk about sex episode. That one did really well in the season. And yeah, so much about learning
just more layers of my sexuality. And I think a huge thing for me is I'm pretty much sober. I do
not like I drink so, so rarely and California sober. Yeah. And you know, there was even just like,
there was a night that I was like, you know, I want to drink like there's going to be some more
vulnerability. And then I dropped the wine bottle and it shatters like everywhere. So like, I've just
been cut off that I'm just in a phase right now. Drinking is not happening. I can't use it to really
escape much. And so that's left me very exposed when it comes to exploring new sexuality, exploring
way different like variations of sex. And this has been like, yeah, there's been a lot of journey
on that and doing it sober and realizing how much of stuff I used to just do like so close to black
out because I didn't want to experience the vulnerability behind it and then adding in the
vulnerability behind it and realizing like, it's fucking scary to ask for things to be different.
It's scary to keep changing the script on what you do and don't do with your body to voice like
what feels good, what needs to shift like I unpack so many layers of that. So and also with me and
Kat like being the intellectualizers we are in my head, like I've always had to get creative to get
out of my head, but it's also been yeah, really important to realize just another layer of nervous
system regulation and how good I do with like feeling really emotionally safe. I think I use
to meet my sex, wild sex with just like such a lack of not just vulnerability, but yeah,
it was never really with super strong emotional connection. I really dipped out of emotion as
much as I could for so long. So adding in those layers has been like, yeah, very exposing and
actually carving out time for myself to connect with my body and how important that is for
my own regulation and just being able to have a better inner compass of what my body is trying to
tell me means that I have to have carved out time for myself too and I've tried to get really good
about that this year to build a deeper language. And yeah, I have my happiness formula I've shared
that I think on here before too and it's so nice that I've like, it's so easy to take care of my
body and the like workout sense and just like keeping myself like strong and focusing on like
that is so locked in that it didn't falter with traveling and it just feels good that now what
used to be the hardest thing to get a rhythm with is now so in tune that that's not even it's
so automatic I guess and that's such a fucking gift because that was the hardest thing for so
much of my life having just so much wounding around my body image being overweight struggling
with so much of that when I was young that now having that like solid connection with my body is
just beautiful and yeah, I got a couple new tattoos that's changed in my body too. So that was fun.
Just another little layer is thinking about for it and yeah, thank you body. We have learned a lot
and it's been scary and we have done it so yeah. Yay, yay, body. Yay, body. I love it. We're in such
a good spot with our bodies and it's been quite a journey like you said. Yeah, it was a really good
year for me and my relationship with my body as well. I had a new movement modality come into my
life this year. Shuffling. I love your stuff. Oh my gosh, it's so fun and it's very much still
like it's still new to me and it's so fun to be learning and back in the seat of the student and
it's very humbling because you know, practice like yoga. I've been practicing for 10, 11 years now.
I've been teaching for almost 10 years and you know, it's like you start to be like, okay, this is
my 1000th downward facing dog or you know, Godfacts, whatever. I wish we could actually know that.
Wild. Think about all the time. How many has I done? Yeah, but it's great to just experience
like things that are hard and things that are newer and different and that's what this has been for me
and it's so fun for me to just be able to whip it out at all the shows I go to and I just, it brings
it brings me so much joy. I'm constantly like giggling and laughing while I'm doing it and
learning on YouTube and just all sorts of different videos. There's its endless amounts of things to
learn and practice. So it's here to stay. It's my cardio workout, which feels really, really good.
So that's been a fun new modality for me. Still practicing yoga and teaching, still doing pilates
and kickboxing videos here and there. So keeping it fresh, walking a couple times a day. It just
feels like a really good rotation of movement activities. So feeling my cup feels really good.
I might kind of mentioned before how my hormone cycles normal now. Healthy hormones, my energy
levels are really good. I can tell I'm super in sync with my body now when I know my periods
coming. Like my luteal phase, it's so fun to just be in communication with my partner about this too.
Like it's a luteal phase and he knows what that means. Like he knows I might get a little cranky
and to not take it personally. He knows to be a little bit gentler with me. He knows that I'm
going to be more tired. And so maybe we just like plan less on those weekends when I'm in this phase
and stay in and just like have fun with that. So yeah, he also, this is really funny, but
instead of calling ovulation like ovulation when we know that's the time when you're like
super confident, kind of horny, not kind of very like your skin's glowy. It's like you're very
energized. Instead of calling it ovulation, he calls it the booty old face.
Cause it's booty time.
So we got the booty on the luteal phase. I love that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's been super fun
to like, you know, get close over and just have in communication. I love that. And then I also got
two new tattoos this year. After like I hadn't gotten a tattoo since 2015, this is my first
and I got two this year. So I don't know. I love them. Yeah. Thank you. I got one to honor the
lights and one to honor the dark. I love that. And the dark is also a best friend tattoo with my
bestie back home in Massachusetts. So that's the sweetness that it's a snake. And it was also the
day that we got into a car crash together and we're like, Oh, a rebirth signal. Oh,
shit. Is it the snake? Like what do we just do? And then we're like, no, no, no, no, it's a good thing.
Every birth cycle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, let's breathe it out. Breathe it out. All right. Inhale for love.
Release.
All right. And then final category, soul, spirit. Yeah. I mean, this category
so much kind of like, yeah, comes with everything else combined, just I always can zoom out and
see such spiritual meaning behind what I'm learning. And I, in this point of my awakening, see so much
adversity and problems as being just like the universe's gift to help me unpack another layer
of myself. Nothing ever feels deeply personal. It's always kind of a beautiful co-creating with
the universe. So everything kind of feels very spiritual to me. But yeah, it was really fun. I
think I with kind of us reading more about medical intuition and stuff and always kind of fine
tuning psychic gifts, we had some, yeah, some of our guest episodes kind of went into some of that
as well. And I really did a lot of play when I was taking the train in Chicago on like feeling
what my body would feel like and then looking over at someone, I can see auras around people like so
much clearer now and just being able to see auras and also then see what shifts in my own body.
And then practicing re-centering and then re-clearing. I just did a lot of like play with
that on the train since I was taking the train like an hour and a half each day. It was like this
little just kind of fun energy game I gave myself. I had some really beautiful mushroom
experiences this year that have been, yeah, I feel like we unlocked a portal in February
with our women's group one. Oh, that was last December. Yeah, so leading up to this year. Yeah,
that was crazy. And then yeah, the layers of, yeah, trip healing is always such a thing and
you can see it so much more in retrospect and I love that. I was supposed to lead a retreat
in February that ended up falling through and me and my co-creator Phoenix ended up going to our
Airbnb anyway. And we had just a really, really spiritual experience just creating virtual content
in that space. And yeah, we created the interview program that gives you like a guided inner child,
inner teen and inner 20s healing and then how to integrate it and just making that program was so
healing as we were like clearing our own. It ended up being so deeply personal and beautiful.
Lots of emotional release. Me and Kat had our witch retreat in New Orleans and it was so
beautiful. Our group was amazing. It always is magic every single time and I was so grateful for
that space and I really needed that circle and space at that time just going through
heartbreak and just lots of layers of things and that was just really, the retreats are just such a
circle for whatever the needs are of the whole group. It ends up being such a bigger guided
experience than even just Kat and I. You get so much deeper assistance and that's beautiful. And
then very recently I had a healing, light language healing session with Christina who we've had on the
podcast and I have a new Ascendant Master working with me as a close guide that came through and
that was a really, really powerful session. I know like that was the seat of a lot of change and
shift too. So yeah, that was kind of my top spirit category moments. Love it. Love to hear
it. Big things. Yeah. Yeah. For me, I was thinking all the way back to New Year's Day this year and
I led a super special workshop on New Year's Day at Nurture and we did a dynamic meditation. It was
sold out. It was a packed house with like 25 people and it was just really, really incredible and
just like the takeaways and the energy and like the gifts I got from that day were just, it was
awesome to kick off the air from that really mindful space and it's hilarious because the word
that I actually set for this year was peace and when I think back, I'm like, I was in a very different
mind space when I created that. I was like, you know, I think I was in a very grounded place and I
was just wanting more of that, but in reality it's like not my soul's journey of what my soul
actually needed this year to be. And so about halfway through the year, I had that reflection
moment and I was like, no, peace isn't serving me this year. This year's about exploring, exploring
my inner workings, exploring the psychedelic realm, exploring new spaces, relationships,
all the things, sexuality. So it was cool because like I'd never done that before. I had that
midway through the year empowered moment of like, you know what, nah, like reset, here's what it is
and that felt really, really good. So I'm going to continue to make that like a little mid-year
check-in of like, how is this going? Is this still in alignment or do we need to shake it up
and not feeling any guilt around doing that? So that was fun. Also, a big thing of this year for
me spiritually was going to Burning Man. It taught me so much resiliency, not just on a physical
level of dealing with discomfort and mud and rain and heat and dust, but also like even more on the
inside of the emotional, spiritual, like, you know, you have to be so open for that experience.
And the more open you are, the more you can just be in the seat of surrender and receiving
what's meant for you, like the more easeful and enjoyable and impactful it's going to be.
So that's what I did. That's what I got. It was so fun. I went out of this fucking world,
journeyed to outer space, came back multiple times in a week. Portal potty.
Hashtag portal potty. We're just going to leave that there.
Amazing. Yeah, I emerged from a porta potty one night with a life altering
realization. And I still think back to him like, damn, that was deep. Okay, portal potty.
Oh my gosh, I love it. Yeah. So that was amazing, crazy, powerful healing takeaways that I've
still been integrating since August. Amazing. And then the Akashic Records course that I'm in
right now, it's a self guided five week course. And I'm learning how to access my own Akashic Records.
And it's so special. It's actually, if you remember, Jen Hoffman, we've had her on the
podcast twice. She's amazing. We had her on this season about talking, talking about birth as a
portal. And she also has read, Jenna's records, she's read a lot of the records of our friends
and clients. And so the course that I'm participating in right now was created by Jen's teacher,
Rita, who is wonderful. And I'm actually going to have my records read by her as well,
I think in a week or two on the 28th or something. So excited for that. And my goal and intention
with this is to get super comfortable being in the Akashic, understanding my own records, and then,
hopefully, if it feels aligned, be able to offer readings to others and be of support in that way
when accessing kind of that realm and seeking insights. Very excited for that. Jen mentioned
our retreats. Our retreat in New Orleans was freaking amazing. It was a dream come true. I love
Nola so much. Our group was amazing, just like the witchy magic cultivated. I'll never forget it.
And then I also led a retreat in Idaho Springs. It was my first solo in-person retreat earlier this
year in March or April now. I'm like, I need to look back at the dates. I think it was April. And
ugh, it was just so beautiful too. A lot of the same girlies at both retreats and they become
family. So yeah, power of retreats. More to come on that. We're already planning our next witchy one,
which will reveal sometime early in the new year to give lots of time to plan and save up. But
we're super excited about this next destination. It has been requested for some time. So just you
wait and hear on our Instagram is the best way to listen. Awaken Together podcast on Instagram.
Then yeah, I continued my morning rituals with my morning meditation, my walk, connecting with
myself. It was a little bit less consistent this year than it had been in other years. But
I'm giving myself grace with that and realizing that that's okay. There's something to sitting
down in Sadhana every morning near spiritual practice. And then there's also understanding when
it needs to just flow with you in life. So that's been really nice this year too. And a space for
me to continually come home to myself each day, start the day off with presence and awareness
with whatever that looks like for the day and looking forward to continuing that in the new
year. I love it. All right, final breath. Let's do it. Yeah. Inhale. Out. Beautiful.
Yeah, so as you do your own journaling for these four categories, you can not only do a review of
2023, but also take another separate page, write these words down again and just look to the year
ahead in that same sort of spirit. We won't go through all of our own personal, but we did some
of our own reflection. And yeah, I'm really looking to 2024 to be just a year of fully embodying my
knowing and trusting my knowing and integrating a lot of knowledge and stuff that has come in and
just like, yeah, sitting kind of inward in that knowing as well. So knowing is kind of feeling
like my word. Anything coming for you, Kat? Yeah, the word that I'm chewing on right now is trust.
Trust in myself, trust in the process, trust in the divine timing of the universe and my life.
So trust is what's feeling really good for me right now. We'll see you after a little bit more
journaling and these last couple moments of the year if that's what really solidifies it. So
more to come. Yeah, so we will be starting our season six in February. And we also, if you want
to check out our Instagram in January, January 1st, we're going to be sharing some stuff on our page,
doing a little giveaway. So check it out. We like to do stuff kind of in between seasons and it's
your time to catch up so that you're ready for season six. We already have some really powerful
episodes lined up and yeah, we're excited just to keep this journey going. Thank you for spending
some time in reflection with us, hearing our journeys and supporting us along the way. And
we really hope that 2024 is a beautiful year for you with all, it meets you with all the things
that you need. That's right. And the good thing is astrologers and numerologists, everyone saying
that this was a really big year for transformation and growth and there was going to be some hardship
with that, right? And 2024 they're saying is going to be a bit more easeful. There is a lot of
collective shift that we had to kind of go through to sit in a different sort of power coming into
what's coming. Like as you can feel in the collective, like there's been a lot with this war
and all of the stuff, like there's been a lot of personal development that was needing to happen
to step into power so we can continue to shift stuff for the better. And by embodying our own
journeys, it ripples into the collective. It's all one in the same as we have shared on here many
at times. So yeah, I think we all had to dig a little deeper this year into some of the hardship
to be able to really integrate and step into truth and power and knowing for 2024.
That's right. That's right. Yeah. The numbers 2024 add up to eight. And I remember learning
that that's like super abundant and it's a really positive number. So all the stars are lining up
for it to be a great year. And you know what? It's going to be a great year. Yes, I love it.
We're saying it's going to be a great year. So it is. Yes. That's right. That's right.
We love you all so much. And please let us know if you have any requests for the new year. Keep
in touch with us on Instagram and we'll see you in 2024. Thank you. Bye.