30 Years Around the Sun: A Reflection on My Twenties and the Threshold Ahead

Tomorrow I turn 30.

That sentence feels weighty, but in the best way. A new decade is here, a threshold, a gateway into another chapter of life. It invites me to pause and reflect on the terrain I’ve traveled in my twenties: all the milestones, the messy moments, the growth, and the quiet (and sometimes loud) revolutions within me.

My twenties were a decade of becoming.

I graduated university, a dream I once thought would define my identity, only to realise that life would ask me to redefine myself over and over again.

I bought my first home on my own, learning the thrill and responsibility of creating a space that felt like mine. And just as I settled, life invited me into something even bigger: love, partnership, family.

I changed my entire career path and started this spiritual business — an offering from my heart to the world. I listened to the whispers of my soul over the noise of expectation, and in doing so, found a life that feels aligned, creative, and meaningful.

I became a mother, twice. Becoming a mum cracked me open in ways I never imagined. The fierce love, the exhaustion, the surrender to the unknown, and the deep lessons my children teach me daily have shaped me more than any degree or job title ever could.

And amidst all of this, I moved again, this time with my partner, children, and our dogs, and we began a full house renovation. An external mirror of my internal landscape: walls being knocked down, foundations being strengthened, and spaces being made anew.

The theme of my twenties has been: rooting and rerooting, becoming and unbecoming, releasing and receiving.

If my twenties were a decade of building and reshaping, of learning who I am and what matters to me, then my thirties feel like they will be about inhabiting that self fully.

I feel excitement for what’s ahead, but also peace. I know now that life rarely unfolds how we expect, and that’s its magic. I step into my thirties with fewer illusions and more trust:

✨ Trust in my path.

✨ Trust in divine timing.

✨ Trust in my capacity to weather storms and dance in the sun.

✨ Trust that it’s safe to evolve again and again.

So as I stand at this gateway, I honour the woman my twenties shaped me into. I carry forward her lessons, her scars, her joys, and I leave behind the narratives that no longer serve me.

Thirty feels like an arrival and a beginning all at once.

And I am ready.

Here’s to this next decade — may it be rich with meaning, love, growth, and grace.