Abundance: My 2026 Word
The new year often arrives with the weight of resolutions and goals, a push to mold ourselves into something new. But what if we stepped into this fresh chapter differently? No plans. No striving. No checklists.
Instead, let’s follow the energy—flowing where curiosity leads and discovery awaits. Writing, not to achieve but to uncover. Creating, not from urgency, but from love.
This past year has been difficult for me. After a time of reinvention, then settling in, came a time of emptiness and wondering, what’s next?
Toward the end of the year I posted an audio recording on Substack about the question, “What if the answer isn’t more?” When there is a vacuum we move to fill it with more…more activities, more work, more, more. Instead, there is presence. Not the easy presence, but the one that sits in that space with no answers, allowing the stillness to just be, even when it’s scary or uncomfortable. That is where I’ve been.
Recently I realized that I was in a place of scarcity. I don’t choose to live like that. I have always had enough. Why did I feel differently this time? Yet, I recognize this feeling. I’ve been here before. And when I released my need to do more, to know, abundance appeared.
As I wonder what the future holds I recall my yearly practice of choosing a word that guides my year and becomes the theme behind my activities and choices.
This year, my word is Abundance.
But not abundance as more. Abundance as enough. Abundance as an invitation to those things, people, activities that allow me to grow, to write, to do the work I am meant to do in the world. Abundance as the choice to release what no longer belongs to me, and what I no longer belong to. Despite sounding as “less,” this opens possibilities for the right things to appear. And that is abundance.
My book Everyday Epiphanies: Uncovering Wisdom in Ordinary Moments is about that kind of abundance. The kind that appears right in front of you when you are paying attention, when you are present to the world around you.
What is your word for 2026? What energy is calling to you?
Let your word be a guide, not a task. Let it whisper to you in the moments when you feel stuck or uncertain.
Let it remind you to pause, to breathe, to trust in the rhythm of your own unfolding.
This year, may we flow instead of allowing fear and scarcity to dictate the decisions we make. May we write, create, and live from a place of courage and love—for ourselves, for the process, and for the journey.
What will you discover as you follow your flow?
May you be blessed this New Year.
P.S. I would love to know your word for the year. Please share in the comments and tell me how you will choose to flow this year.
