A Soft Girl Summer Reset

Happy New Year

I turn 40 in April, and I’m creating a vision board for this next chapter.

Not as a rush toward something new, but as a conscious repurposing of who I already am.

I’m not trying to become someone unrecognizable. I’m changing, but not really. This feels more like refining. Reorganizing. Taking the woman I’ve been and making her better, clearer, and more intentional. I’ve done the work. I know what I like now. I know what I want. And that changes how I move.

This season of my life isn’t about proving, pushing, or performing. It’s about clarity. It’s about choosing softness with precision and letting my next chapter be shaped by intention instead of urgency.

Turning 40 feels less like becoming someone else and more like remembering myself. The parts I quieted to survive. The pace my body prefers. The life that feels good in my nervous system.

So this vision board isn’t loud.

It isn’t crowded.

It’s spacious.

I’m holding images of ease, sensuality, health, creativity, and rooted living. A life that funds my peace. A life where my work, my body, my relationships, and my environment all speak the same language.

There’s softness here, but it’s not passive.

There’s beauty here, but it’s not decorative.

This is soft power. Chosen slowly. Maintained intentionally.

At this stage of my life, I’m no longer experimenting just to see. I’m curating. What stays has earned its place. What goes no longer fits the woman I am becoming, or rather, the woman I’m allowing myself to be fully.

As I build this board, I’m asking myself different questions than I used to:

• What pace allows me to stay present?
  
• What environments make my body exhale?
  
• What kind of work feels sustainable, pleasurable, and aligned?
  
• What does intimacy look like when I’m not rushing it?
  

This process feels ceremonial. Like setting the tone for a decade, not just a year.

For now, I’m staying with the process.

Listening. Editing. Allowing.

Softly, but with direction.

Journal Prompts

1. In what ways am I repurposing who I already am instead of starting over? Or am I starting over ?
   
2. What parts of me deserve refinement, not replacement?
   
3. What do I know about myself now that I didn’t before, and how does that guide my next chapter?
   
4. What am I no longer willing to negotiate as I enter this season?
   
5. What rhythms, environments, and relationships support the woman I am becoming?
   
6. If I trusted my preferences fully, what would my life look and feel like?

This isn’t about reinvention as pressure.

It’s about evolution with intention.