one little word™ 2019: FOUND

I chose the word FOUND upon entering January 2019 as my guiding word for the year. I did this as part of the one little word® practice started by Ali Edwards, and I have participated in this practice every year since 2012.

Ali talks about “making your word visible" and I had done that in my December Daily album for 2018 in the spread you see below using puffy gold alpha stickers. I made it a flip-up page, and because I wrote a letter to something everyday in that DecDaily album, wrote a letter to my new one little word inside the flip-up.

The quote on the upper half of the flip-up included my word in a way that perfectly reveals why I chose it going into 2019. You can tell where my mind & heart were at when you read the letter on the bottom half of the flip-up page.

To hear why I chose this word at the start of 2019, you could listen to the Crafty Ass Female podcast episode all about it. I had felt lost for so many years for a variety of reasons (failed relationships, failed careers, untreated mental illness) and at the end of my tough, tough 2018, I just wanted to feel found.

To hear how the word happily manifested in my life, I direct you to this post. I found my way back to teaching. I found the right mental health specialist. I found my gym. I found a great guy. Most notably, I found a foundation within myself so strong and true, and it led to all the other amazing discoveries.