Hello everyone, it's Sabrina here, founder of GGTG. Thank you for reading the GGTG blogs in 2024 - in this final blog of the year, I want to share with you some personal reflections on my experience of 2024.
This year was the most difficult of my life, yet it was one of the most joyous as well. I faced my worst fears and emerged stronger, wiser, and more vulnerable than before.
Why am I highlighting vulnerability as a virtue alongside strength and wisdom? Because I have seen from my own experience that it is a superpower.
Invoking vulnerability allows us to keep our hearts and minds open even in the face of the most painful circumstances, facilitating the collection of valuable information that enlightens the path ahead.
Without vulnerability, we become hard and cold, turning our eyes away from what we don’t wish to see, blocking the full picture and stymying the formation our best next steps.
When my dear friend and father to my son Geoff passed away in August, I could have protected my heart from the pain by numbing it, running from it, choosing any manner of escapism. But I have been down that road, and I know where it leads. There is no avoiding the pain we encounter in life, there is only delay.
When we delay our pain, it grows larger, louder, harsher. There will be a reckoning, one way or another – one day in the future, that delayed pain will be seen. Of that I have no doubt.
So, I let my heart break, for myself, for my son, for Geoff’s widow and their son. I allowed myself to be present for my own pain and the pain of everyone around me. I showed them the power of my vulnerability and in so doing proved to myself that even the most painful circumstances would not break me.
And then there was a gift. By allowing complete presence with my pain, I could see with complete clarity what brought me the most joy, and how important it was to pursue those endeavors.
We need to feel our pain, but we must not dwell there – when it was time to reach for my joy again, I knew exactly where to find it.
This became my compass for the next stage of my life, a knowing deep and certain.
That clarity was my gift, and in 2025 I will lean into sharing GGTG with the world.
On January 9th, we kick off the 2025 GGTG Cohorts. We will meet at The Ned in London – choose between the 9.30am or 12.30pm slots – and I will introduce GGTG, describing its origins and purpose. We will workshop some of the GGTG themes and decide what we are ready to tackle on the journey from Good Girl to Goddess in 2025.
In this video, I explain my own journey from Good Girl to Goddess, and how the GGTG program can support other women walking the same path to a more authentic, peaceful, joyous life.
To register for the event, simply send an email to sabrina@ggtg.me.