Welcome to the moonbeaming podcast.

I'm Sarah Faith Godestiner, an artist, author, and intuitive.

And together we'll explore life through a creative and spiritual lens.

You'll learn so much about mysticism, creativity, consciousness, depth psychology, business, and more.

And you'll get to listen to conversations with luminaries that you won't hear anywhere else.

With each episode, you'll receive insights, frameworks, inspiration, and tools to help you thrive and grow.

Welcome back to the show.

If you are listening, Day of, Happy New Year.

Did we need to let go of any year more than 2025? Maybe, you know,

juries out haven't met 2029 yet. But in all seriousness, I know that for many, many people, many people. This was an

incredibly hard year. There's so much I could say about it. It really has been a year that more

than other years, we've really seen how the political impacts our personal

lives, at least in the United States. I'm not sure where you're tuning in from. Hi, everybody in

Germany. Hi, everyone in Australia.

I love you.

But even thinking about here in California and here in L.A.,

we had major fires which impacted the entire city, of course, and the lack of government support is a further struggle on top

of that, of course. You know things are not good when people are relying on GoFundMe's to help them out with housing or their medical bills

in this country. Also, just keeping it local, we had the infiltration of ice, absolutely breaking

up families, wrecking havoc and violence and trauma on thousands and thousands

and thousands of people in incredibly, incredibly heartbreaking and material ways.

You know, I could keep going here, but job loss and health issues and major relational ruptures. And

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