Merry delight-mas ✨ 💕 and a happy new year! 🎄
Dec 22, 2025
Life is going at 200 miles/hour. Meanwhile my body is asking for a 5-10 miles/hour pace for sometime now. I don't know how you feel about this. But I know that you are probably on the spectrum of "running on fumes" to "10-20% refill at a time" capacity. It is not ideal but it is where we are as the majority of adults.
If trying to fill your life juice up with limited time, resources, and capacity has been throwing you off for a while, I have a few things to say to you:
I want you to recognize how hard you have been trying. Really, truly, objectively. You are trying your best every single moment of every single day. And I love you for it. Your body loves you for it. I know for a fact that your people, pets, and family loves you for it. They may not always show it or say it, but you are so appreciated!
Life will keep throwing things at you. It happened before. It will happen again. There will be things you can anticipate and prepare for. And there will be others, no matter what you do, you won't anticipate and you can't prepare for. This is the reality that we are all trying to control. And we can't control it, ever. Sit with this truth. The only choice that remains is how you choose to be and feel in this moment.
Feeling delight is a choice. It is not about seeing everything with rose colored glasses. It is about recognizing that you are a tiny vulnerable being in a vast and unpredictable universe, who was thrown on a beautiful rock in a beautiful time. Fret and worry all you want. That will be your reality. See delight everywhere. That will be your reality. I know which one I am choosing again and again every single day.
Here's the most important part: feeling delight will fill you up like nobody's business. If there ever was a charger for worn-out hearts and bodies, it is feeling, anticipating, and deepening your delight. At this day and time of unlimited expectations from ourselves and all aspects of our lives, delight remains the true and most beautiful thing that cuts through the crap of unworthiness.
I invite you, this holiday season and beyond, to go into an Olympic expedition of finding delight everywhere you look!
What if your life depends on it? (It does!)
What if filling yourself with delight is the best remedy for your tired body and heart?
What if by noticing the delight that already exists in your life and inviting in every opportunity for delight, you are being of service to yourself and others?
What if this holiday season turns into your personal Delight-mas! One that fills you up much more than just 10%?
What if your deepest healing was never about re-living your trauma and worries, but always about you expanding your capacity for true delight?
Here's what has been giving me immense delight this holiday season:
My husband, even when he annoys me to no end sometimes
Going on family adventures like this one
Fresh flowers on my kitchen counter
Supporting healers and lightworkers any way that I can
Talking about myths and things that can help people deepen their inner child healing
And one thing that works like a charm always: making time for my inner child crystal healing
Here's an invitation for you (if you choose to accept it) for some journaling to deepen your connection to all things that delight you:
What do you want your Delight-mas to look and feel like?
What are three things you can add or subtract from your routine to give you more delight?
What are three hidden sources of delight that are already here for you but you haven't tapped into in a while?
What would it feel like to carry your "finding delight everywhere" practice beyond the holidays?
Please take care of yourself out there. This living on Earth business is no joke!
When all else fails, just remember this and this.
I love you 💕,
Damla
P. S. From one of my favorite poems ever, "Mindful" by Mary Oliver:
Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less
kills me with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light.
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