2026 the year of new energy exchange
I’ve had a journey with the idea of New-year’s resolutions.
For a long time, I had walked away from them, deeming them unhelpful and an excuse to delay making change, or a way to be hard on myself when I inevitably change as a person and my resolutions no longer suit the person I became.
But I have come back around to them. I feel like there is something in the world where people collectively decided to make change, an energy shifts, something wakes up. I feel like I get a new lease on life around the new year and I’ve come to love it.
The new year is an opportunity to welcome change; to try on new versions of myself and see what fits. This trial-and-error approach to the new year has been liberating for me, allowing me to participate in the energetic shift that happens when people come together for change, while not holding myself to a rigid standard that’ll be used to inevitably beat myself down.
So as I sit in this early new year period and begin to plan my next set of experiments, I come to ask myself:
Who am I now?
Who am I becoming?
Who do I want to become?
Do these things align?
It’s when they don’t align that I begin to make change. Here is a clearer example of this.
I stopped posting on YouTube in summer of 2025, for no other reason then I was becoming overwhelmed in the real world and that was affecting my ability to create. I had an amazing few months where many opportunities presented themselves, and the weight of those “yes! I’d love to.”, “that sounds amazing, count me in!”, and the “I can’t pass up on this opportunity” began to get heavier. Who I was at the time and who I was becoming had strayed from who I want to become, not in a fun exploratory way, in a “I can work those extra shifts” way.
Everything is energy, I spent mine on the pursuits that would get me paid most and quickest because I needed to, a decision I don’t regret, but a decision that I made on repeat and took me further from who I wanted to be.
So that’s what I’m looking towards in 2026, a more aligned energy exchange.
The time spent on the day job that keeps me stable (the reality of one-person small businesses such as this!), and this, that which makes my heart sing and aligns with my purpose.
I want to get back to YouTube, my plant connection circles, Patreon, and a whole host of other offerings that I believe can connect people, the earth, and spirit in a way that feels most connected to me.
When I throw all in on one something else comes crashing, when I throw my all into studying or my PAYE job then my creativity comes crashing, when I throw my all into my creativity I am all consumed and my responsibilities slip. I more balanced energy alignment is my goal, of course I have things I want to learn this year and skills I want to improve, but doing it with a air of consistency is the final goal.
So finally I had to ask
What do I need to bring in to be this version of myself?
What do I need to let go of to be this version of myself?
I need to bring in a structure that works for me to do with my business, as someone neurodivergent this feels like an ever-changing task and an answer I can never truly grasp sitting right on the edge of my fingertips just out of reach.
I need to let go of rigidity and fear, allow my routines to change, allow myself to make content that is outside of the niche I put myself in, I need to let go of the fear that if I don’t say “yes” now then the opportunity is gone forever.
I realised when I want to learn something, it’s the wider connection aspect that keeps me motivated. I want to learn to bake bread to share with my neighbours, I want to learn to grow food and healing herbs to connect with the earth, I want to create art to connect with spirit. It’s not the act for me, but what that represents,
Connection.
For 2026 everything is an experiment in energy and connection.
To a wonderful year of trial and error!
Shannon
