A little bit about 2013: It was a year of questions, a year of learning and sorting and growing. It wasn't my best year but 2014 is feeling different. January has always been a time of change, goal setting and coming of age with my birthday on the 12th. Prior to 2013, I managed to live my whole life without giving any credence to the notion that getting older was a bad thing. To my horror, last year I began to be haunted by thoughts of lost time, aging, loss, regret, etc . Ridiculously, right? I felt defeated by fear of what was all around me, which is just more fear. My friend Bill Bourne once told me that we live in a culture that wants us to hate ourselves and be afraid. That made a lot of sense to me. When we don't love ourselves, we can't love others which also means we’re easily influenced, easily convinced, swayed and marketed and marketed to. It's hard to watch people trapped in self-hatred and therefore desperate for whatever quick fix comes their way. So all of this is to say, lets love ourselves in 2014. Accept where you are, what you look like, how old you are, who you choose to be with, accept your family and the people who care about you. If we all start treating ourselves better, we will have so much more to give and will need so much less in return. For me, this has meant writing more, eating really well, sleeping more and listening. So thank you to all who taught me a lot in 2013 – I’ve already got a lot of heart seeping out of my heart into 2014…