19. A Year of Moving in Flow: What 2025 Taught Me About Capacity & Growth

Written By Brittany Broderick

As this year comes to a close, I’ve been reflecting on how differently it unfolded than anything I could have planned. 2025 wasn’t a year I mapped out or strategized my way through. Outside of one clear milestone, my book launch in March, almost everything else arrived through a quieter, more intuitive unfolding. The land in Montana. The podcast. The Institute. New rhythms in motherhood. Deeper layers of grief, expansion, and integration I thought I had already learned years ago, but only truly embodied this year.

What this year offered me wasn’t just experience. It was a curriculum that came through my body, my relationships, my pace, and the moments I felt stretched beyond what I thought I could hold. There were seasons of deep joy alongside grief. Seasons of slowing down that somehow created more capacity, not less. And moments that reminded me, again and again, that the body often knows what we’re ready for long before the mind catches up.

If this year softened you, surprised you, or brought you to your knees at times, I want you to know you’re not alone. Here are a few of the lessons I’m carrying forward, shared gently in case they support your own reflection:

• Slowing down is not falling behind. It’s how endurance is built. When your pace is regulated enough for your nervous system to participate, life stops feeling like something you survive and starts feeling like something you can actually inhabit.
• Capacity expands through presence, not pressure. What unfolds through intuition is always more sustainable than what’s pushed through urgency.
• Growth and grief often arrive together. If grief surfaced alongside expansion, it wasn’t regression. It was integration.
• The body knows what you’re ready for before the mind does. Staying connected to sensation and rhythm often reveals the next step without force.
• Simplicity protects joy. Doing less and being where your feet are allows the ordinary moments to become deeply nourishing.

As you step into the next season, maybe the question isn’t how fast you should go, but what pace allows you to stay connected to yourself. That pace, the one your body can hold, is the one that will take you farther.

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