Телеграм канал «Abby Wynne»

As the dahlias die back, I bring my mind into tulips. Because I continuously buy from several websites that specialise in such flowers, they send me notifications when sales are on. It's always a very poignant moment when I choose my tulips for next year, because it means that the summer is definitely coming to an end.

I do enjoy autumn, and October is one of my favourite months of the year. Coming to the equinox, it feels like the cycle is ending and another cycle is beginning. I do really feel that this is the end of a year and the beginning of another one. I think winter is the beginning of the year, not the ending.

In my new journal that I'm creating, instead of a one-day-at-a-time diary, we open with "Winter." The journal will be available, hopefully in the next month or so. It's going to be bumper-packed with bonus materials, and in order to get the journal out in winter so you can start using it during the winter season, I'm probably going to release it before all of the bonus materials are ready. Once they're there, they'll be there for several years.

Taking on Life Mastery Practitioner School has been a big commitment, it’s my life’s work and it will be where my heart is for the foreseeable future.

I'm finishing the one-day-at-a-time diaries for this reason. 10 years of diaries is quite a moment to have reached. It's exciting and beautiful, and everything does happen in cycles and seasons. I'll be able to tell you more about the new journal once I finish with Life Mastery Practitioner School business over the next few days.

In the meantime, I will be going through the applications for the next cohort today and tomorrow and sending out letters of acceptance to all my new students. I'm really excited to have a new wave of multidimensional therapists training with me. It's taken a lot of work to get to this point, and I'm very proud of what I've achieved so far. I don't say this very often. I think I needed to say it today.

I'm finding the last of the dahlia flowers buried amongst the overgrowth of green. They tend to grow way more leaves and shoots than needed at this time of year and not as many flowers, so I'm cutting them back a little bit. They look kind of raggedy, but there still is beauty to be found.

By Maria McHale on her 55th birthday
Hello 55.
This last decade has been some ride!
I’ve done SO MANY things and I’m excited for what’s next but boy did I learn things I did not want to learn, made decisions that were terrifying emotionally and financially disastrous at times, allowed the wrong people into my life AND...
I would actually do it all again BUT with the knowledge I have now (I’m no fool! 🤣😇).
Here’s some nuggets for you!
You don’t need everyone to understand you. There’s such freedom in no longer explaining yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you. You know who you are and the people who matter know who you are.
Reinvention doesn’t have an age limit. You’re allowed to change your mind or change direction or start something new or walk away from something you’ve outgrown - whenever you decide.
Being needed isn’t the same as being loved. Being useful, carrying people, solving their problems and making their lives easier can feel a lot like love but they’re not the same thing. You don’t have to earn your place in anyone’s life.
Stop auditioning. For friendships. Relationships. Work. Opportunities. Rooms you think you need to belong in. The right people don’t require a performance from you.
Peace has become more valuable than being right. Not every misunderstanding needs correcting, sometimes you know the truth and you get on with your life.
Disappointment tells you something. When people disappoint you, believe the information. You don’t have to hate them but you should adjust their access to you.
Your life gets better when you stop abandoning yourself. Every time you say yes when you mean no or accept something you know isn’t right, you abandon yourself a little. I’m getting much better at staying on my own side.
There are worse things than losing people. Losing yourself trying to keep them is one.
You don’t need permission. Not to write, not to speak, not to start a business, not to change direction, not to charge properly for your work, not to take up space. At some point you have to stop waiting to be picked and pick yourself!
Your body deserves a different relationship as you get older. Always go to nourishing first over punishing yourself.
You’re allowed to want more. You know what? Gratitude and ambition aren’t opposites, you can love your life and still want a bigger one! More experiences, money, love, adventure, freedom. Wanting more doesn’t mean what you have isn’t enough.
Joy is SUPER important. We spend decades organising life around responsibility, work, family, bills, other people. You should make a lot of your day very enjoyable!
Some chapters don’t need closure. You don’t always get the apology or even the explanation! Sometimes closure is deciding you’re finished wondering WTF happened!
I like myself so much now! Maybe this is the biggest gift in getting older. I know the mistakes I’ve made and where I’ve fucked up spectacularly 🤦🏼‍♀️And I’m still proud of the woman I’ve become.
I’m the writer of my life.
I’m not running out of time, I’m getting really strict about who deserves it!
Integrity is being able to live with your own decisions. If you know your principles and make decisions according to them, you don’t have to spend your life defending yourself to yourself.
So here's to more of all that - blessed to have a village of friends who have made this decade fabulous and also bearable too!

Autumn has come to Ireland

I wonder what the intention is behind sending this to everybody in the country…