{"id":6796,"date":"2024-01-04T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2024-09-26T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T17:14:48","slug":"how-it-went-my-2023-goal-to-have-a-better-relationship-with-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/how-it-went-my-2023-goal-to-have-a-better-relationship-with-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"How it Went: My 2023 Goal to Have a Better Relationship with Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/opwgc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Jan-Feb-2024-On-Purpose-Woman-Magazine.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3240\" height=\"2400\" src=\"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/April-July-2023-email-images-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/April-July-2023-email-images-2.png 3240w, https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/April-July-2023-email-images-2-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/April-July-2023-email-images-2-768x569.png 768w, https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/April-July-2023-email-images-2-1536x1138.png 1536w, https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/April-July-2023-email-images-2-2048x1517.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3240px) 100vw, 3240px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>“…Being at home, in the core of ourselves, is the foundation that gives us the security\u2026to be in full relationship to life.\u201d Bud Harris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early 2023, I nearly dropped my e-reader. “This is so where I am at right now!” I noted next to this passage above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My word of the year for 2023 was Foundation – specifically, shoring up the real foundation to everything: my relationship with myself.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All year, I had decided, I would be unwobbling the wobbles around accepting every part of myself. I didn\u2019t want to feel at odds with myself anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a drastically new kind of goal for me: I’ve always been a speed demon set on tackling my business projects, writing books and articles, serving people through all that and a nonprofit, plus a million other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But losing my father took my mind off all that, and my 2023 goal felt less tangible and obvious; the kind of thing that falls in the cracks. An Honorable Mention type of goal, not really worthy of a gold prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Basically not worth the time and energy to focus on if I had anything more important and urgent to do. But that is why it had to be the top priority of all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My biggest task is to meet myself where I am, moment to moment in my life, especially when life gets busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I have any goal that consider to be more important, as soon as I feel that urgency, this relationship with myself will play second fiddle\u2026heck, it\u2019s the triangle in the back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to really take things up a notch, I had to to say, “Forget the other goals, if all I do is end the year more self loving than I began, then I will consider it a success.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So how did it go?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opwgc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Jan-Feb-2024-On-Purpose-Woman-Magazine.pdf\">\u200bRead on in this free January edition of On Purpose Women Magazine!<\/a>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Or if you choose to watch, here’s a video interview about this topic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Writer in the Spotlight - Sofia Wren Nitchie\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fuAOUzdG_eA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u200b<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u200b<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Delicious\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"SofiaWren\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"How%20it%20Went%3A%20My%202023%20Goal%20to%20Have%20a%20Better%20Relationship%20with%20Myself\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>“…Being at home, in the core of ourselves, is the foundation that gives us the security\u2026to be in full relationship to life.\u201d Bud Harris \u200b Early 2023, I nearly dropped my e-reader. “This is so where I am at right now!” I noted next to this passage above. \u200b My word of the year for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[627,591],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-on-purpose-woman","7":"category-yearly-review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7294,"href":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/7294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sofiawren.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}