What’s Your Word for 2026?

Opening Piece From Book 2 in My Sovereign Path Series - After the Dark: Love Lights Our Way​

Rooted in the Dark

The Fertile Ground of My Becoming

2026… the word that found me.

For most of my life, my word was never named… but it was GRIT. Grit was my way through. Endurance. Perseverance. Pushing on when stopping wasn’t an option. It carried me. And it cost me.

In 2022, when I left the life I had known and moved to the Azuero Peninsula, my word became grace. Grace wasn’t something I did. It was something I allowed. Being held instead of holding it all together. Letting myself be imperfect, uncertain, human. Grace stayed with me through 2023 and 2024 as I dismantled old identities and softened places that had been armored for decades. Grace taught me how to land.

In 2025, my word shifted to balance. Balance was discernment. Limits. Listening to my body. Trusting my inner yes and my inner no. It was the year I stopped overriding myself and started believing what I felt… the first time. Balance brought boundaries. And with them, peace.

And now here I am. Not striving. Not correcting. Not bracing.

My word for 2026 is received. It is not passive. It is grounded. It means I arrive as I am, and that is enough. I no longer chase what is meant to meet me. I trust that what belongs in my life recognizes me without persuasion or performance. I am met. Welcomed. Already home in myself.

As I prepare for pilgrimage, not to seek, but to arrive, this word anchors me. This is not the absence of radiance, joy, or inspiration. It is the soil they rise from.

I am RECEIVED.