December has arrived 😮‍💨

Anchi
2 days ago
3 min read

Hello dear one, how are you? Come closer, but really—how are you, from the heart? I truly hope you’re doing well. And if you’re not, I wish that whatever is weighing on you feels lighter soon.

I begin this blog like this because, indeed, December has arrived. I don’t know how it’s been for you, but for me and the people around me, 2025 has been—and still is—a mountain year 🏔️.

That’s the best way I can describe it: a year full of change, challenges, unexpected turns, lessons, and experiences that keep reminding me to breathe.

Because there are things that, no matter how much we want to push them to happen in the way and at the time we want, they unfold in their own way and on their own timeline.

I suppose I’m feeling philosophical, because this season always invites deep reflection. And even more so now, since on Tuesday I came down with acute bronchitis. I had to stop and breathe.

While I was at Hospital del Mar waiting to be seen, I noticed a young woman who was extremely anxious, struggling to breathe. She was attended to much earlier than me, because I looked calm and serene.

Every time breathing becomes difficult for me, I return to yogic breathing. I visualize the air entering like a fine thread, soft and silent. And as it leaves, I visualize it the same way. This helps me both to breathe more calmly and to ease the anxiety that comes with the sensation of not being able to breathe.

I remembered all the times when, as a child, my mother and I waited in hospitals—whether for me or for her—during asthma crises or complicated flus. The nebulizations, the respiratory therapies to strengthen the lungs and to learn how to breathe.

I share this because, as I said before, we still have a few more days until this year 2025 ends—a year that is said to be a “9 year,” a year of closing cycles.

And according to astrologers, there has been a lot of movement in the transpersonal planets, constantly inviting us to release, to let go, to “die” to processes that no longer served us.

How has it been for you? I would love to read your reflections.

They say 2026 will be a “1 year.” A year of beginnings. The wondrous cycles of Life–Death–Life that Clarissa Pinkola Estes speaks of in Women Who Run With the Wolves.

And of course, we cannot receive all the newness the universe has to offer if our hands are still full of what no longer serves. Yet letting go can be so hard, can’t it?

For every process, the best thing we can do is breathe. Whenever you need to make a decision, pause and breathe. Whenever you feel hurt or unsettled, pause and breathe.

You may not find the solution instantly, but at least you’ll be able to live it from the present moment and act from there.

As for me, I’m giving myself a break to reorganize internally, because 2026 is already shaping up to be full of launches and new projects that I’ll share with you little by little.