{"id":486,"date":"2014-12-29T22:48:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T22:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/?p=486"},"modified":"2015-04-07T22:50:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T22:50:28","slug":"new-years-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/new-years-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I reflect back on this past year, it has been a year of great courage for me.<\/p>\n<p>I moved to NYC with little money in my bank account and fortunate to receive the support of great friends. I took on a life far from the cozy one I&#8217;d grown accustomed to and with each day, leapt into a new unknown.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered burn-out in my work and had the courage to release patterns and dreams that no longer s<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">erved me. It was scary and dark&#8230;deeply uncomfortable. I&#8217;m still letting go as I surrender notions of what it means to be a &#8220;success,&#8221; to have a purpose, what is meant for my life, what wants to be birthed through me.<\/p>\n<p>It takes great courage to live inside the space of &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221; I&#8217;ve felt small and purposeless at times, a voice in my head constantly chiding &#8220;What if I never amount to anything?&#8221;&#8211;and that might be the most precious gift of this challenging year&#8211;there is something much more profound unfolding then my Personal Will can ever create or comprehend&#8230;and I don&#8217;t have to &#8220;amount&#8221; to anything to be a gift and receive the gift of my existence. A lesson I continue to learn.<\/p>\n<p>And in the midst of all of that letting go and clearing out, a great love was being born and continues to birth itself with new adventures on the horizon&#8211;partnership was perhaps the least expected gift this year, and a most welcome surprise.<\/p>\n<p>And now I face 2015 with continued courage, brand-new dreams, and a continued deepening of my surrender. &#8220;Thy will be done.&#8221; This will continue to be my prayer as I embark on yet another year of this precious life.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I reflect back on this past year, it has been a year of great courage for me. I moved to NYC with little money in my bank account and fortunate to receive the support of great friends. I took &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/new-years-reflections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,18,86,31,33,39,80,44,152,53,147,56,146,63,182,81],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-revelation","tag-change","tag-courage","tag-finding-home","tag-gratitude","tag-growth","tag-intentions","tag-letting-go","tag-love","tag-new-years","tag-possibility","tag-prayer","tag-pursuing-dreams","tag-relationship","tag-soul-purpose","tag-surrender","tag-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melissasimonson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}