Our second year in LA has been a BIG one. I wrote a new novel from start to finish, then polished off another one. I became a certified RYT 200-hour yoga teacher, assisted a second round of teacher training and completed an 85-hour specialty certification in prenatal yoga. And I also started teaching yoga! Me! The girl who cried in 2012 when she had to teach a sun salutation to a group of teacher trainees because she was terrified of speaking in public — and now I have two classes a week of my very own! I never expected I would get to this point teaching yoga and how much I would love teaching. I never thought I could write a novel in three months either, but I did that this year too!
Tom and I also had six sets of visitors in 2013. I went back to Toronto twice, went to Hawaii with my little sis, made a trip to NYC with my Mom and my aunt, Tom and I visited our little niece and family in Vancouver and then we partied in Calgary for his best friend's wedding. We also took multiple trips to Palm Springs — with my aunt and her family and with friends — and then we had a little getaway of our own in San Clemente. This was also the year Toomas 4Everest Peters launched his digital record label, Such Music — and the label had a stellar first year! Then the weekend after he launched the label he broke his neck on an ocean wave in Malibu. While he was healing I broke my toe. We spent 12 weeks together in our apartment while he healed, learning to be humble and above all reach for a whole new level of gratitude. Every day we are grateful that he made a full recovery (along with my little toe). But you know, there's a lot a young married couple can get up to when they're stuck in their apartment together, even with broken bones...
...we saw for ourselves how quickly life sprouts up and on and how joy spreads with it
This was the year of discovering that you can set goals and you can surpass them
I realized like never before that we are here to go for it. We are here to express. We are here to share what we love and always, always, always, create from the truest parts of ourselves.
We are here to remember the cliche that life's greatest loves can be born out of life's greatest heartaches (or something like that ;)
especially if you're able to laugh your way through.
Tom and I also had six sets of visitors in 2013. I went back to Toronto twice, went to Hawaii with my little sis, made a trip to NYC with my Mom and my aunt, Tom and I visited our little niece and family in Vancouver and then we partied in Calgary for his best friend's wedding. We also took multiple trips to Palm Springs — with my aunt and her family and with friends — and then we had a little getaway of our own in San Clemente. This was also the year Toomas 4Everest Peters launched his digital record label, Such Music — and the label had a stellar first year! Then the weekend after he launched the label he broke his neck on an ocean wave in Malibu. While he was healing I broke my toe. We spent 12 weeks together in our apartment while he healed, learning to be humble and above all reach for a whole new level of gratitude. Every day we are grateful that he made a full recovery (along with my little toe). But you know, there's a lot a young married couple can get up to when they're stuck in their apartment together, even with broken bones...
It turns out 2013 was also the year we embarked on a journey, of receiving one of life's greatest gifts!!
And so these were the events of 2013, but in truth, this was the year...
This was the year of knowing you will always find your way back to the people you love
...and that together you can visit the places of your dreams.
and that life will always find a way to help you express what's in your heart.
This was the year my eyes opened wider to the evolution of spirit within each of us, the beauty that resides within us all.
I realized like never before that we are here to go for it. We are here to express. We are here to share what we love and always, always, always, create from the truest parts of ourselves.
especially if you're able to laugh your way through.
Because the truth is this won't be the last time you'll need to reach for a higher place. The truth is that the thing you never thought you'd get through is over now, or it's on its way to being over, because it all ends sometime. It all changes. So if it's at all possible, keep in mind and take heart that there are joyous occasions around the corner. There is love like you have never known.
This was a year of love, this was a year of greatness, this year and all...
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