Ease into 2025 gently: reflect and dream

Join me in Episode 15 of The Inspiring Mums Podcast where I talk about how reflecting and dreaming will help you to make slow and gentle changes in your life in 2025.

In this episode, I talked about:

* how we can use the seasonal Spring energy of new starts and new beginnings to help us make changes in our lives

* how it feels cathartic to look back and reflect on the previous year because time and distance can give you a different perspective

* how reflecting helps us to look back at moments that meant something to us and brought us joy - the big moments and small moments

* how reflecting helps us to look back at our achievements and celebrate them too

* how all of the information that we get from reflecting, helps us to realise what is really important to us and we can use this information as a foundation to take it into 2025

* how giving yourself the space and permission to dream means you can tap into what you really want and need

* how it’s about intentionally creating your year instead of the year passing you by

* maybe you can let yourself dream about:

* what you want more of in 2025

* the energy you’d like to bring to this year

* the changes you’d like to make in your life this year &

* the mindset shifts that might need to go along with making those changes

* my tentative plans for making changes in my life in 2025

* how my Reflect, Dream and Plan workbook can support you in making changes in 2025

I hope you enjoy this episode and it helps to encourage you to take the first steps of reflecting and dreaming to make slow and gentle changes in your life.

Quotes from this episode:

* “I wonder if there is a change in your life that you’ve been wanting to make for so long, or you’ve tried to make that change before but for whatever reason it hasn’t worked out - maybe 2025 is the year you commit to making that change and really giving it your all.” - Jenna Folarin

* “We can really use the Spring energy of fresh starts and new beginnings to help us to make some changes in our lives in 2025 and we can do that by reflecting and dreaming.” - Jenna Folarin

* “It can be cathartic to look back at the previous year because there might be some moments or situation that you found really hard but with a little bit of time and distance that situation, we might now have a different perspective in them.” - Jenna Folarin

* “We can look back at the moments of joy that meant something to us - the big moments and small moments.” - Jenna Folarin

* “When we reflect, we can look at how much we’ve grown across the year, maybe we can handle situations better, maybe we’ve learnt lessons from tough moments that has helped our growth.” - Jenna Folarin

*“A lot of the time, we achieve these really amazing things and we move on to the next thing - but looking back helps us look back at what we’ve achieved and actually celebrate those achievements, because we absolutely deserve to celebrate those achievements.” - Jenna Folarin

* “Taking the time to reflect helps us to realise what matters to us, our values.” - Jenna Folarin

* “Why not let yourself dream about what you want more of in 2025 and what kind of energy you want to bring into 2025.” - Jenna Folarin

“Making changes in our lives that mean something to us because we’ve taken the time to reflect and realise what matters to us, me