# @lifesadiscoball on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/B6yLRzennHD
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8940164-lifesadiscoball-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-01-01T16:37:41.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Heather Petri (@heatherpetri) — https://gondola.cc/heatherpetri

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Quietly. It’s how I entered 2020. No toast. No large fanfare. No big promises for change. And it was just the way it was meant to be.

I didn’t feel it necessary to carry the heavy baggage of expectation into a New Year. Already tired from carrying it, before it began.

Gratitude. Grace. Acceptance. Self love. I really just want to love myself for where I am at. For who I am. As I am. And too many expectations to “level up” and do ALL THE THINGS, can detract from loving myself right in this moment, as I am.

The end of 2019 was hard. Really hard. The last few months being some that have challenged the way I see myself. Often falling into depression and lacking confidence in my self worth. I don’t say that for sympathy. I say that for transparency. And for others to know they’re not alone.

And so with all this striving, and pushing, and setting of new expectations that comes with a new year, I felt overwhelmed. And for me, true growth was happening in me while quietly letting go of 2019, and allowing 2020 to tip toe in. While I rested. And readied myself, for yet another amazing day. A day in which I can love myself, and others, as we are. While also welcoming the challenge of growing more into ourselves - when we choose to. Not because it is the first day of a new year, and a new decade.

And I’ve never felt more rested and content. Free of enormous pressure to better myself. Because it will happen. And as it does, I’ll remind myself of this: “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” —Hal Borland

Wishing all of you grace on this New Year’s Day, and every day thereafter.

Peace and Love, #GracefulWarriors. ✨🖤✨

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