A year of writing
2025 is a year for fearless writers
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Each year, I write my biggest goals for each month on a big piece of paper and hang it on the back of my front door. It gives me the endorphin hit of crossing things off, but also gives me a nice way to acknowledge my progress throughout the year, so I can focus on how far I’ve come, and get excited for what I’m building.
At the end of the year, I do a little gratitude ritual and bury this sheet, then the cycle begins anew with a fresh piece of paper in the new year.
There’s some big magic that comes with being a writer, and I felt it keenly this year as I moved through my days. This year I handed in one book (The Essential Preserving Handbook), and released another (The Fermentation Oracle). I wrote weekly (save for a few weeks off to get married) newsletters on writing here, and in my food newsletter.
I opened the Culinary Curiosity School, and I led my first-ever session of my group coaching program, Bloom.
Part of the joy of both of these has been uncovering new ways I can serve the people I want to work with, while sharing and teaching from the intersection of all my interests and experiences. It’s incredibly fulfilling for me (and my students seem to really be enjoying it, too).
I’m also in the midst of many life changes (marriage, moving to a different country for part of the year, etc.) and some big upheavals, and I’ve been really struck by how my spiritual practices, and the meditations and grounding exercises I teach, have helped me weather those changes and get back to a regulated nervous system much more quickly.
It’s a year where I’m feeling so much gratitude: For friends, family, my husband, my pets, the land I live on and the land I steward. And I feel excitement for what’s next for my writing: New-to-me ideas to explore, old favorites revisited, plus my first-ever book photoshoot (happening in mid-January).
As a writer, I’m feeling called to really reconnect with the pleasure of my work and hold space in my days to be improvisational, and I’m excited to see where that (along with my writing that’s more structured) leads.
And, I especially feel gratitude for my readers, without whom I couldn’t be a writer. So if you’ve read my work this year, bought a paid subscription or a book or a class, thank you for making my work possible.
2025 is asking me to lean into my calling to support my fellow writers more deeply: And so care for your work is going to be intricately interwoven with care for my own. I’m really looking forward to supporting writers in a practice rooted in joy, possibility, and reciprocity, especially in a moment where those experiences feel hard to access.
My theme with this work in 2025 is to help fellow writers find their way back to themselves.
Or to find what writing means for them in the first place.
Many creatives are feeling pressure and burnout, and in the last month or so, a lot of us are also in a freeze response: Uncertain, afraid to be seen, afraid of what’s next.
Uncertain times are the times our voices are needed the most, however scary that may be, and so I’ve dedicated my writing support work in 2025 to helping fellow writers find their own writing voices, or to reconnect with it if writing is feeling stale.
Together, we create a container that holds and surrounds your work, providing a safe place to reflect and create from your deepest wisdom and desires.
We’re staring the future in the face and stating unapologetically that we’re going to continue creating. And we’re going to create what matters most to us, and share it with the readers who need it.
AND we’re going to find ways to weave pleasure, and play, and expansion, and curiosity into the work: Because creating from that place not only makes for better writing, it’s also an antidote to fear and uncertainty. It keeps us grounded in ourselves, and brings its own extra layer of healing to the world (along with your words themselves).
If that resonates with you, I’m looking forward to shaping your magical, powerful writing practice together (or, if you’re a creative in a different medium, I can help you too, though I mostly work with writers).
Bloom begins on January 24th, and we’ve still got four spots left. And if you want a quick reset, try Pleasure Practices for Creatives (use HOLIDAY for 60% off either, but only through the end of the year).
What are you celebrating this year? What writing goals do you have for next year?