Weekly Round-Up: The New Year’s Eve Edition

Time for this week’s round-up of the best blog posts I’ve read over the past week. These posts touched me, taught me something, and inspired me, so I wanted to share them with you. Remember, if you’ve written a post you’d like readers to see, just leave a comment.

Welcome to the last blog round-up of 2023. Before we embark on a fresh year, let’s dwell for a while longer on seasonal reflections from Philippa, Audrey, Connie, Barbara, Janet, Dee, and Chris.

OurMBCLife‘s latest podcast episode features tips for those with MBC to travel safely.

Advice on navigating relationships after a breast cancer diagnosis on the SBC blog.

Carolyn shares exciting news of the publication of her Editorial -. “Heart Failure: it’s time to finally change the F-word” – in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), The focus of this editorial is a significant cardiology issue that Carolyn has actively advocated for in her writing, and speaking for many years.

So now let’s look forward to the New Year.

Are you making any New Year’s resolutions? Like Beth, I tend not to, so these words in her latest post resonated with me: “Instead of making resolutions, over the course of any given year, I reflect on how I can best cope and improve my life and overcome challenges.” And then I try to make adjustments throughout the year – notice the word “try” here. I am not always successful, but sometimes I am.” For more alternatives to New Year’s resolutions, see also Terri‘s terrific post on tapping into resilience.

Before I sign off I want to remind you of my annual Repost Yourself call-out. To take part, simply drop a comment below with a link to your favorite post from 2023. Share the piece that resonated with you the most and let us know why it left a lasting impression. If you don’t have a blog of your own, why not take this opportunity to highlight someone else’s work that you particularly enjoyed.

And now it’s time for my New Year’s wish for you.

G.K. Chesterton wrote that it is not that we should have a new year, but “it is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes”.

As we approach this New Year’s Eve, my heartfelt wish for you is to acquire new ears, attuned to the messages you need to hear; new eyes that perceive beauty in the ordinary; new feet that carry you to where you need to go; and a new backbone, to give you the strength to cope with life’s challenges.

Most of all, may we continue to support and comfort each other on our journeys, whatever they may take us in the coming year.

And so may a slow
Wind work these words
Of love around you,
An invisible cloak
To mind your life.

“A New Year Blessing” ~ John O’Donohue
Benedictus (To Bless The Space Between Us)

Yours with much love and gratitude always

Marie xxx