LiveMindfuLee

2025 was not a year I rushed through. It was a year that asked me to sit still, to listen, to soften, and to let old versions of myself quietly fall away. It was a year of becoming.

Transformation rarely arrives with fireworks. More often, it comes like dawn. Slow. Gentle. Almost unnoticeable until suddenly the light is everywhere. Throughout 2025, I learned that healing does not demand perfection or speed. It asks for honesty, patience, and the courage to stay present even when the work feels tender.

I spent this year unlearning survival patterns that once kept me safe but no longer served me. I learned how trauma can live in the body, the mind, the spirit and how love, especially God’s love, patiently invites those wounded places back into rest. Yahweh met me not in pressure, but in peace. Not in striving, but in stillness.

As the year closes, I do not feel “finished.” I feel rooted.

And from those roots, 2026 feels like a year of creation.

Creation as devotion.
Creation as prayer.
Creation as healing.

This coming year, I am choosing to make things with my hands and my heart. Art that tells the truth. Music that releases emotion without apology. Poetry that names both sorrow and joy. DIY projects that turn ordinary spaces into sanctuaries. Creative practices not as performance, but as care.

Art has a quiet way of holding pain without demanding explanations. It allows grief to move. It gives shape to hope. It invites the nervous system to exhale. In that way, creativity becomes a form of therapy, a sacred collaboration between the soul and the Creator Himself.

Yahweh is the original artist. The first poet. The architect of beauty, rhythm, and meaning. When we create, we echo His nature. We participate in restoration. We mirror His tenderness.

This next season is not about doing more. It is about living more gently. Choosing peace over urgency. Self love over self criticism. Presence over perfection. I am learning that rest is not laziness, and joy is not something to earn. Both are gifts.

Healing does not erase the past, but it does loosen its grip. And from that freedom, something new can grow.

So I step into 2026 with open hands. Ready to create. Ready to listen. Ready to live a life that feels aligned with love, with truth, and with God.

Not rushing.
Not hiding.
Just becoming, again and again, through creation.

With Love and Well Wishes,

Brittney @livemindfulee