Happy New Year! I want to begin this first post of 2025 with a moment of recognition for how far all of us have come. These past couple of years have shown us our deepest shadows and some powerful places of transformation. We’ve experienced devastating losses to actualizing our dreams. We are becoming clearer, truer, more authentic, and more honest with ourselves about who we are and why we are here.
I know this because I’ve heard your stories—shared in classes, sessions, and community spaces. They echo the struggles, shifts, and breakthroughs we’ve collectively faced. And here we are, at the beginning of a new year, full of hope, intention, and the opportunity to renew ourselves.
For those who joined my Holiday Retreat, you may already feel a step ahead in grounding this energy. And for everyone, I’m excited to share what’s been shifting for me—it will ripple into my offerings and the messaging I bring forward this year.
As you know, I wrote a book called Becoming an Empowered Empath. The feedback has been humbling—it’s clear this work continues to change lives. So many empaths and intuitives who have struggled to feel connected to their lower chakras are finding a new sense of presence and empowerment. Historically, empaths have felt powerless—caught in people-pleasing, caretaking, and boundary struggles. Yet, they are also deeply intuitive, emotionally intelligent, and creative beings.
When empaths reclaim their power, something extraordinary happens. They shift from managing symptoms and energy to becoming creators of their lives. They step out of survival mode and into leadership. This transformation—from feeling victimized by circumstances to stepping into the role of an empowered leader—is profound.
Everyone leads in their life in some way. Parents lead families, teachers lead classrooms, therapists, healers, and coaches lead their practice and a healing process, CEOs lead companies, first responders lead a life-saving mission, creators lead a creative process, and performers lead on stage. These are just some ways that the leader within us steps forward to fulfill a purpose.
This is where I am stepping forward. Over the past several years, I’ve had to learn how to lead. Reluctant and scared to be a CEO, leader of a business, a school, a community, and a creative process, I’ve made a lot of mistakes. Those mistakes were growth opportunities to overcome my boundary leaks, powerlessness, inability to see myself, dim my light, and more.
Yet every time I closed my eyes to meditate and seek the answer, I would hear: “Wendy, you are a leader, and the leaders need your work. The systems change when the leaders are healed. Everyone’s light leads them from within. Everyone has the opportunity to lead from their inner light. Leaders need to connect to their light and intuition.”
So here I am. It’s 2025, and I’m writing a new book on leading with intuition. I can’t reveal the full title yet, but the manuscript is due to the publisher on Monday, January 13th, and then it will be moved into the editing process. I hope you like it. I’m scared that it won’t be received. I’m nervous about how it will land. All the fears are present, but I am leading with my intuition, quieting my monkey mind, and moving forward.
As I lead in my life, I’m supporting the leaders in us all. For some of you that will be leading at work. For others, it will be leading in parenting, creative endeavors, or your own personal healing journey. We all lead in one way or another. Yet, it’s the light that leads us that I will be speaking to in my offerings that include personal and professional life. Our intuition comes from that light.
Leading still includes teaching within the School of Intuitive Studies offerings such as the Energy Healing and Intuition Training and the Intuitive Healer Training Program, as well as supporting students in leading from their intuitive gifts and light. I’m still hosting the Divine Guidance Healings every first Wednesday of the month, as healing is part of unblocking our inner wisdom.
Additionally, I’m expanding to add ways you can lead in your life and professional settings. My first offering starts in January with a behind-the-scenes live taping of a new program called Thrive at Work: Energy Management for People Who Work with People. I’ll be announcing it publicly on January 13th, but since you’re on my list, you can get a sneak peek here.
2025 is a significant year for me. I turn 50. It marks 30 years of work as an intuitive energy healer. I’ve returned to the University of Colorado to take a couple of courses and am diving into an independent study on intuition. I’m parenting, speaking, teaching, and evolving. And I’m saying yes to what’s possible for me this year.
I trust you will, too.
After all, we are the leaders we’ve been looking for.
Photo Credit: Melissa Rich Photography
This is a year to embrace the light within and lead from it. Whether in your family, your work, or your personal growth, your light is the compass that will guide you forward.
Here’s to courageously stepping into 2025 and all it holds. Let’s lead with our light.
With love,
Wendy
