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Setting Intentions, Not Resolutions: A Gentle Start to Your New Creative Year

This final post of 2025 is a guide to setting gentle, powerful intentions for the year to come.

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Dec 30, 2025
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In this quiet, magical week between the holidays and the New Year, the world seems to be holding its breath. It’s also when the pressure to set huge, ambitious resolutions can start to creep in. But what if we could approach the year ahead with more grace and less grind?

This final post of 2025 is a guide to setting gentle, powerful intentions for the year to come. Paid subscribers will get a simple, heartfelt framework for choosing a guiding “word of the year” and dreaming up goals that will inspire you through 2026 with flexibility, purpose, and joy.

Let’s begin the new year with clarity, not pressure. Upgrade to get the framework for setting intentions you’ll actually want to keep.

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