Bringing back the blog !

Helllloo !

It’s been a little while. (A long while I think, oops !)

But we’re officially bringing the blog back!

So welcome or re-welcome to the Happy Girl blog!

I hope you feel encouraged here and loved here. And really it’s just going to be like two besties chatting and catching up (that’s you and me, if you couldn't tell).

We’re one month into 2025 now, and I hope saying that doesn’t scare you or bring you stress. I feel that it’s so often that we hear people say things like “how is it February already?” or “wow January flew by” or "this year is going so fast". But one of my new years resolutions is to not say that, or feel that even ! I’m hoping to enjoy each day intentionally, and not let the year go by in a flash.

And although the fact that it is now officially February does make me a little bit anxious, in reflecting on January, it’s honestly been such a good month and just good days.

My very thick journal laugh out loud

I have this journal / scrapbook kind of thing which I’ve been filling in since my 20th birthday last September. As sort of a diary of my 20th year. And the other day, I’ve just gone in and added all my January photos, and wow it’s starting to get thick !!! hahah

I set a lot of intentions for the new year, of who I wanted to be and what I wanted to do. Naturally, have I been focusing on them all perfectly? Of course not ! But I'm honestly really enjoying re-looking at them again now, to remind myself and reinspire myself of what I want to be doing and feeling and being.

And I also put together a whole list of goals for the month of January. Did I reach them all? No. But that’s okay ! I definitely did some things - I finished a module of my course, I read two books (!!!), I went on lots of walks, and ticked off a few things off my to do list.

I ended taking a whole posting break from social media for a couple of weeks. There was honestly a few days were my mental health started getting realllly low from it, and from the pressure I was putting on myself, but also felt from others. And when I was feeling this, I kind of felt like I failed the whole new year new me, this is my year thing. But you know what, I didn’t. And neither have you ! Life is up and down, okay? Things don’t go to plan. Our minds switch up on us sometimes. And that is okay. When that happened for me, an alert started going off in my mind. That I either needed to do something about how I was feeling, or I’d be stuck feeling like this and wouldn’t be able to get out very easily. So I listened, and I stepped back. No more posting until I knew I was mentally ready. But this wasn’t a failure of a thing to do. This got me to get into God’s word and really talk to Him more. I read books, I coloured in, I recently just started watercolouring with my friend, I got reinspired, my to do list suddenly felt a lot less overwhelming. It was so good for me. And now I feel like I know what I need to do for myself in the future, if I started feeling that heavy pressure again. I know how to get out of it.

So, what I hope you get out of this, is life is wavy. But ride the waves. I think once you accept that it’s all going to be a bit up and down, that’s when it gets a bit easier. Ride with the waves, not against them. And if you get a bit knocked over, find your feet, and stand back up. Becuase you are strong enough. You are so strong, that you have made it through 100% of every hard thing, every big wave. You have a perfect track record of strength ! So don’t doubt yourself now. Ride the crazy life waves.

Just a couple days ago, I came back online, posting again. Which truly felt so so good! The time off meant I was ready to be back, and excited about all the things I’m working on. If you happen to want to catch up even more about how I’m feeling now, I filmed a whole chatty video which I’ll link for you here:

My word of the year is intentional, and even though though it’s not the first day of the year more, I still love this word. Just living life intentionally. Enjoying each day, maybe even romanticising each day a little bit ! But being the person I want to be, and doing the things I want to do. Living out my pinterest boards a little bit.

So I hope you still feel excited. Excited about the year. Even just excited about your day today. You can make it brighter. You can do something you’ve been wanting to do but putting off. You can have the fresh start new year feeling today. You can set new goals, new intentions today.

I hope you have an amazing day. I know that there are things in your day or life that you can’t control to make it perfect, but do something today that will make your day just 1% brighter :)

You are so loved (because I love you so much !)

Jess <3