Recovering from a spiritual clearout

How to pick up the pieces ❤️‍🩹

Good morning, my lovely.

Late autumn might not be the typical time for a “spring clean” but 2024 hasn’t been our typical sort of year, has it?

I named this post after a lot of debate. It could also be called: “How I put my mind, body and spirit in a blender, and the five ways I’m ready to change my life forever in 2025.”

But that wasn’t as snappy.

I’ve been grappling with some big concepts over the past few weeks, namely endings, new beginnings and unmappable futures. It may seem a bit early to be talking about “new year, new me” but my own yearly cycle is starting a bit sooner this time around.

Anyone who’s been following me for more than six months will know that I’ve had one heck (insert more appropriate expletive here) of a year. Yesterday (Friday 6th December), was exactly one year since the birth of my stillborn daughter. For the past 12 months (but more so in the past three), all my energy has been channelled towards healing: healing from the physical birth, healing from the mental trauma and healing from the emotional turmoil and grief that have characterised my 2024. All the while, I’ve been trying to honour my daughter’s memory and shouting her name (Sky, a very small name for a very small little girl) from the hillsides 💙

This blindsiding journey has been transformative in more ways than one. And I have given it my all, undertaking:

• witchcraft healing rituals

• therapy - thank you so much, Jo.

• Reiki

• reading about grief, trauma and baby loss

• support groups

• Traditional Chinese Medicine

• fertility reflexology

• Stoic philosophy

• mediumship

• journaling

• gratitude journaling

• shamanic journeying

• somatic yoga

• long hikes in nature

• breathwork

• screaming into my pillow

• writing a whole flippin’ book about the experience - but more to come on that one soon.

You name it, I’ve probably tried it on my quest for healing. If I’ve been absent on social media, it’s because I’ve been VERY spiritually active instead - I just don’t have the IG Reels to prove it 💁‍♀️

In spite of the pain of it all, this year has been the year that has made me.

I’ve cleared out my energy body; removing any stagnant energy that has been festering in me for years. I’ve cleared out my mind; removing self-limiting beliefs that have kept me in a state of depression and anxiety. I’ve also cleared out my physical body; I’ve changed my diet and finally cured myself of anaemia for the first time in 18 years!! And I’ve been using all the extra space around me to connect with my spiritual practice.

How do I feel after it? Pretty exhausted 😅

But that stopped at Samhain.

At Samhain - the Witch’s New Year - I began to rethread my life. The lessons of the past year came to a head and I remoulded myself into someone who is - dare I say it - healed.

2024 has lasted three decades and I have shouldered through the bleakest emotions it is possible for a human to feel, but I feel like I’ve learned more about the world and myself than I ever thought it possible to learn. Spoiler alert: my life didn’t stop when I experienced my trauma. Instead, I’ve been transmuting my wisdom into a new way of seeing the world, golden joy and a deep, weighty gratitude for the incredible people I have in my life.

And now, I’m ready to build a new life for the new person I have become.

Below are the five things I’m planning to do after 365 days of spiritual clearout and working on myself. If this is something that resonates with you and your own 2024, I invite you to join me and begin your own spiritual clearout using the methods I’ve suggested above. Or you can start your year of “rebuilding” using the ideas below. Here are my 2025 spiritual resolutions:

Because what if everything works out better than you ever thought it could?