My Four Desires for You this New Year
Deepening - ever deepening.
Artwork channeled and crafted for this piece by @lauisloved
Background
Length: 14:05
*Note, I was thinking of Galileo (not da Vinci). He was under house arrest when he passed of natural causes. (So really neither of them were the right-fit example, lol).
2026 has crested. Twelve months of possibility stretch into the horizon. For my transformation-bringers.
Way showers.
Paradigm shifters.
And I have four simple invocations for you during this year. that you may deepen in:
That you may deepen in self-belief.
That you may deepen in clarity.
That you may deepen in perception.
That you may deepen in your voice.
The thread that runs through all of this is a deeper connection with yourself. May we end 2026 more attuned, trusting and integrated within ourselves.
If you're affirming this for yourself and want further activation and to let this sink deep in you, I encourage you to tune in.
Transcript
Happy New Year.
This is being recorded prior to the new year in December—early December, December 1st in fact—but I thought it would be fun still to record this ahead of time. I like to be ahead of time on my content, but it'll be interesting to listen to this in the new year and see how this feels crossing over the threshold. And I know, especially in spiritual spaces, some people celebrate the Gregorian, some people celebrate the lunar, some people celebrate something altogether. But we have to admit that culturally, the new year from December to January is a huge shift. And I believe intention matters. And when we have this many people with the intention of clearing the slate, moving into a new year, it might as well be the new year—even if it doesn't match up astrologically, astronomically.
So I want to start off the new year by sharing with you some of my prayers and hopes for you, dear listener.
If you are listening to this or reading the transcript, reading the summary, you are—I imagine—a person, likely a woman, someone who identifies as a woman of great heart, great passion, great vision, great mission, who perhaps has not seen the full fruition of what she's desiring to bring forth. And that can be a painful reality. That can be a humbling reality. But it can be reality sometimes, nevertheless.
And so I have four things that I am hoping for you, praying for you this year.
The first is that I am praying that you deepen in your self-belief.
Deepening in your self-belief. So that—no matter who you are—I know that you have had many women in your lineage who survived by casting their belief externally, whether on an external spiritual reality, whether on external family members, fathers, husbands, to survive because of the way the world was set up. And we have entered an era where that no longer has to be the case, where we can embrace our sovereignty, our self-sufficiency. And mind you, I'm not talking about complete independence. I am heavily focused on community and interdependence. But I think we can understand the difference, right?
We are now in an era where we can truly cultivate this self-belief on a whole different level. And so my prayer for you, beloved, is that you deepen in this. That the places where you are doubting that you can be the person for the job, may those places dissolve. The places where you're doubting whether or not you really have this gift, whether you really impact people, whether this is real, whether this can survive in this seemingly cutthroat world, whether the vision you have for the future is real and attainable and possible—may you believe in yourself deeply. May you deepen in that self-belief.
And this is beyond a warm and fuzzy feeling. This is an embodiment cut from—or forged, perhaps—from the fires of lived experience, of going out and doing the damn thing, of scuffing your knees, of implementing, experiencing. And I'm not talking about hustling and just throwing things at the wall. Sometimes you have to throw things at the wall, right? Like, just trying things. But not from this place of proving, of striving, of "I've got to"—grinding, hustling. But this ferocity and this determination and this tenacity.
Because look, like, I am anti-hustle. I don't think we need to kill ourselves, kill our bodies to live beautiful lives. And I think that harms the planet, that harms the collective. But I do think we need hunger. We need ferocity. We need tenacity. There's gonna be pain on this journey. Anybody who tells you not is lying to you. And that's okay. Just like in childbirth, there's pain, but the reward is so beautiful.
I gave birth to both of my girls without any epidural or anything. And that was my birth plan. I'm glad that I was able to. If I had to get an epidural or a C-section, I would have been A-okay, because as long as healthy mom, healthy baby, right? And I'm glad that I was able to do that. And that pain was—like, I tore with my first born. And that was the worst pain I've ever experienced in my life. I liken it to getting knives stuck up in me and a blender turning on when I tore. And I didn't even tear that bad. Sorry, so hopefully I'm not scaring anybody who wants to have kids. It's gonna be A-okay, babes. But that pain was terrible. It would have been irresponsible for anybody to tell me that there is no pain involved. For some people there may not be, perhaps. I know, you know, everybody has their different beliefs. I've read the books, I've done the things, right? But for me, I experienced that pain and I was okay with that. The pain was necessary to bring to life my amazing children.
But I'm digressing, or going really long on this. Bottom line is: I hope that you deepen in the self-belief, the tenacity, the ferocity, the hunger, the trusting of yourself. Because at the end of the day, you have yourself. And where you are today is a testament to who you are. And if nothing else, look at all the years that have passed by you, the things you've gone through, the things you've navigated, the relationships you've navigated, the hardships. And you're here. You— Like, if anybody can do it, it's you. I know, even without knowing you.
So may you deepen in self-belief.
I pray that you deepen in clarity.
That you strike a balance between your body, soul, and mind. We have these pendulums swinging that are like, "only intuition" and then "only logic" and "only body" and "only mind, only spiritual." I pray that this year you find the balance that works for you. And the pendulum will always be shifting and doing this little gyroscopic dance, right? But may you accept your intuition as much as your logic, and vice versa. May you accept strategy as much as spontaneity.
Be wary if anybody says you don't need these. We are not purely spirits hovering around in this reality. We are physical beings, and there are physical realities that graciously help us anchor and make manifest our desires and dreams. And I believe that walking a path of a successful, beautiful, regenerative business requires engaging and integrating our full selves, which includes our logic that can say, "Okay, I want to charge $22 an hour for my coaching, but I would need 500 people to meet my financial goals. Maybe that number is not gonna make sense, right?" It's okay to do that kind of thing. You need to do that kind of thing. It's okay. We live in this earthy reality, right? And we don't need to fight against it. It is what it is. And thank goodness for logic. Logic has built the buildings that we're sitting in, the cars, all these things.
May you deepen this year in clarity. And what fundamentally—as you can tell from my ramblings—the integration that brings clarity.
May you deepen in perception.
May you stop dimming your perception, your discernment in one area, in any areas. Because when we do that, it diminishes it in all other areas.
So I remember being in my marriage—very unhealthy marriage, to say the very least. Traumatic, I would say. And to remain in that space, I had to dim my perception. And I had to call hot cold and cold hot, right? To be able to exist in this reality where I was still coupled to a man who was harming me. And I had to make excuses and project onto the collective males, men, the behaviors of my husband.
But once I allowed myself to deepen in perception and say, like, "Actually, no. Not all men treat their wives like this. Not all men believe these things about women. Not all men are XYZ"—that is when the freedom, the change, the shift happened. But up until that point, I was not ready to elevate and unlock that perception.
That's just an example in personal life. But in business, may we deepen our perception. I think sometimes the good girl programming comes out full force. We feel bad and icky calling a spade a spade and saying, "This thing sucks," or "That person doesn't know what they're doing," or "This is not scrupulous. This is unethical." And there's value judgments in some of these things, and we want to hold the balance of, like, "Everybody's path is different." But sometimes we do that too much. Like, sometimes it's like, "No, that's fucking crazy," to be very frank. Like, "No, that's not okay," or "No, this doesn't feel right."
Because once we are allowing ourselves to name this to ourselves, we're no longer gaslighting ourselves. Because when we're gaslighting ourselves in one area, we're gaslighting ourselves in so many others. And honestly, think about it: a relationship where somebody's gaslighting you just about, I don't know, food like in the fridge or something. You're like, "Did you eat my leftovers?" "No, we didn't even—we didn't even go to that restaurant yesterday. That was today." That—whatever. Somebody's gaslighting you in that one area, like, wouldn't you agree that that relationship is unhealthy? If somebody is willing to gaslight you in one area to instill confusion, to warp your perception, things are not okay.
Similar for us with ourselves. When we gaslight ourselves in one area—even if it's not related to business or money-making or any of these things—we are causing a distortion overall in our intuition. We are not trusting ourselves. We are fracturing that trust within ourselves.
And so allow yourself the freedom to just say that. Sorry, that's the next one: to just recognize to yourself what it is, how you're feeling about it. Even if you acknowledge, "Maybe I don't have the full picture, so maybe this isn't the actual reality of the situation. This is what I am seeing." And then test it. See how things come up over time. And if you have a trusted friend or a partner, tell them your perceptions. Build that muscle of naming and having somebody else witness. And then in two months, being like, "Hey, remember you said that? This is what happened now." You're like, "Oh, okay. So I did clock it, you know?" Because you're building self-trust.
And this all flows together with clarity and self-belief.
And the final one that I am praying for you for this year is deepening in your voice.
And this comes from all the above. When you are believing in yourself, when you have the clarity from your integrated self, when you are moving in deeper perception, then it is easier to say the damn thing.
I want you to say the quiet part out loud. I love saying that. But I hope that you deepen in voice this year. I hope that we stop hemming and hawing and beating around the bush, and we say the very words that freed us when we accepted them in and heard them and moved them into our body.
There are women, people, communities, collectives out there that are waiting for these words of liberation, of power, of clarity to break through. We know the voice is powerful. I mean, it's scientifically proven we can speak over our plants, and if we're saying good things, they flourish. When we say bad things, they literally wither. Isn't it amazing that science is, like, catching up with some of these principles that have been known for millennia, right?
And so your voice matters. Your voice is so important. And your unrestrained voice—really, your voice at any stage, and especially your unrestrained voice, unencumbered by—I wouldn't say unencumbered by fear, because sometimes we do things even when we're fearful and we move through it, we support ourselves—but unencumbered by layers of masking and sanitizing.
And I'm seeing more and more people do this, and I love it. I love it. Because we're tired. We're tired of the cookie-cutter, copy-and-paste content and conversations and this and that. We're moving into a new paradigm, a new but also ancient way of doing business, of doing life. And it's gonna take new but ancient words and paradigms and people being willing to say the thing.
I think about—was it da Vinci who was killed by the church for positing things that we now know to be true? There's so many people who were called heretics and burned and all these things. And while I think for us in the Western world, and even outside of the Western world in more populated, less rural areas, we don't have to fear that label and the potential of death for it—we can, that knowledge, that cellular knowledge of that reality lives in us. And so sometimes it can be hard to move through it.
So support yourself. Strengthen yourself. Fortify yourself. Have your community and your people who can stand beside you as you speak to these things. And as you speak, you'll be so surprised to hear how many other people are mulling over this, are walking this path, are hungry for these conversations, and that your unique—your voice brings something unique to the conversation, to the collective.
So those are the four things that I am praying for you as we start this new year: that you may deepen in self-belief, deepen in perception, deepen in clarity, and deepen in your voice.
I would love to hear what you think. Which of these feels really resonant for you? And which of these things, perhaps, feel scary or you feel averse to—which may be the very one that you're gonna be called into more this year?
And in general, I'd love to hear: what is rising for you as we enter this new year?
Extras
→ At the end of the year, I had the pleasure of visiting The Systemize Podcast where I discussed client journey from an embodied, matriarchal approach. Tune in an let me know what you think.
→ I also wove a beautiful conversation with Tara Coughlan, quantum leadership mentor, on the Light Leaders Podcast. This was a labor of love, as it took us multiple meetings and takes to overcome a plethora of tech challenges. Tune in to hear all about self-belief, relationships and destiny swapping.
This article was written by Edi Oduraa, founder of Via de Oduraa, where we help creative + wellbeing brands scale without losing their soul through fractional COO services.
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