Naming your shadows is how you turn them into gold.

It’s funny how we start the year with all this audacity to do things differently, and then a sudden wind blows in some shadows that make you rethink and even doubt: can I really pull this off?

Just the other day I heard a knock at the door, opened it thinking it was my Amazon delivery, but it was just my impostor syndrome — packed and fast delivered as it was my prime subscription. It only took me 16 days in 2026 before old fears came trying to pull the rug out from under me. Little did they know that I don’t need a magic carpet to fly.

Obviously, in the heat of the moment, that’s not what I see. I feel the weight. I cry because WTF this again? I go silent because I refuse to offer these bitter words to myself anymore. And I go on way too long walks to burn it off.

As I walk through my darkness, I remember: the breakthrough is near. Fear wouldn’t come knocking if I weren't closer to something great, something so good that would change this whole thing, and fear knows it. This time I didn’t sit with my shadow, I walked with it. I showed it the trees and the flowers. I showed it the blue sky and the power of the sun. I felt the warmth of its tears, of my tears. I witness it, I named it. I turned it into gold. There is peace now in the unknown.

If you’ve also felt that wind trying to knock you down at the start of this year, know that I’m here to help you untie the knots that fear has created. Click here to learn more.