My Words for 2025: Collaboration & Consistency

I love a fresh start! I love closing one chapter and stepping into another. Reflecting on past experiences, applying what I’ve learned, and preparing for the next big thing feels invigorating. As we step fully into 2025, it’s no different.

Each year, I typically set New Year’s resolutions or create a vision board. In recent years, however, I’ve felt less connected to the idea of resolutions. Trial and error have shown me that goals can shift throughout the year—or life can simply take over, making those goals feel less relevant. While I’ve felt re-inspired to outline goals for 2025, I also want to focus on words that guide my actions.

To me, it’s not just about the goal but the habits that help you get there. Choosing guiding words allows me to anchor my decisions and actions. This year, those two words are “collaboration” and “consistency.”

Why I am Choosing “Collaboration”

This year, I want to approach life differently. Looking back on my 34 years, hyper-independence has been a recurring theme. Due to my childhood and early adult experiences, independence was my default. I wasn’t the child who enjoyed group projects—I believed I’d always go further working alone.

But in my 30s, I realized this pattern no longer serves me. Independence, which once helped me survive, now feels limiting. I’m no longer living in fight-or-flight mode, and I finally feel “safe.” The ghosts of my past are gone, and I am free to create the life I desire. With this freedom, I’ve learned that interdependence is just as valuable as independence. I still thrive on getting things done, but I also need people, grow through connection, and have so much goodness to share with others.

This year, collaboration will take center stage in my life and my yoga business. I plan to:

• Take more initiative in my relationships with friends and family.

• Grow my platform as a yoga instructor.

• Facilitate a breathwork/research project.

• Partner with wellness professionals.

• Host pop-up events.

• Expand my community through shared initiatives.

Collaboration feels like a rebellion against the isolation of my past. From the time I was born, I was adopted by an amazing woman, my mother, who I know God ordained to raise me, but she passed away from a terminal illness when I was 15. By the time I entered high school, I was orphaned. Though I connected with my biological family a decade later, I didn’t feel compelled to form strong bonds—we were simply too different. My adult years were further shaped by independence, especially as I traveled all throughout my twenties and spent a total of five years abroad in Brazil, South Korea, and Colombia.

While these experiences solidified my resilience and self-sufficiency, they also reinforced a solo mindset. Now, as someone who finally feels safe in her body, I want to use my gifts as a yoga instructor to serve and connect with more people. Not collaborating feels like staying in survival mode—and I’ve moved past that.

Abundant dreams all this year!

Why I am choosing Consistency

If there’s one thing that has held me back recently, it’s consistency. As a Manifesting Generator (I’m still learning about Human Design), I’m multi-passionate and naturally inclined to pivot between interests. While this can be a strength, it’s also left me spreading myself too thin and struggling to excel in one area.

This year, I want to change that. I’ve often found myself moving on to the “next best thing” whenever life threw me off course. But 2025 is the year I commit to showing up consistently, especially in yoga.

Consistency for me means:

• Sticking to a schedule for YouTube uploads, blogging, and marketing.

• Completing a 75-day challenge.

• Growing my health and wellness data base on this site

• Achieving my fitness goals.

• Growing numbers representing the impact I have made on others

Consistency is essential for the success of my collaborations. Without it, I’ll lose momentum—and I refuse to end 2025 without standing 10 toes down on what I said I was going to do.

Where Collaboration and Consistency Collide

I couldn’t settle on just one word because these two complement each other so well. Collaboration thrives when everyone is consistent in their commitments. I want to work with people who take themselves seriously and show up authentically in relationships, whether personal or professional.

On the other hand, consistency is more sustainable with a support system. Having someone to hold you accountable makes sticking to habits and achieving goals more manageable.

This year is especially meaningful for me. The past few years were mentally and emotionally challenging, uncovering layers of healing and unresolved trauma. Through my pain, I’ve learned so much about myself, others, and the world around me. Yoga and integrative nutrition have become the foundation for my growth.

Sharing yoga, nutrition, and wellness fills me with purpose. As someone who has often felt silenced, “other-ed,” and unsure of her place in the world, expanding my offerings is not just about helping others—it’s also about proving to myself that I deserve to be heard and loved.

In Conclusion

Collaboration and Consistency will be my guiding words for 2025, and I’m excited to see where they take me. What about you? What word(s) have you chosen for the year? I’d love to hear from you—share yours in the comments! And if you’d like to collaborate, let me know!