Welcome to Mary's Cup of Tea, the self-love podcast for women, though all self-lovers are welcome here.

I'm your host, Mary Jolkowski. I'm an author, speaker, retreat leader, and all-around self-love advocate.

And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself.

Hello, self-lovers.

Welcome to another episode of the Mary's Cup of Tea podcast, a special New Year's edition

one.

I am recording this on December 31st, 2024.

We are going into 2025 tomorrow.

And unpopular opinion, I actually do not believe in New Year's resolutions as in no more sugar and I'm going to make this amount of money. I love that for you

if it works. But what I've found for me is that those kind of restrictive, rigid goals that depend on a lot of external factors are generally disempowering, especially if and most likely when we do not reach them. And that's why by week

three of January, you're like, and you just kind of trash your New Year's resolutions and feel

really guilty for not adhering to the very high standards you set out for yourself. So instead,

I like to set intentions. I like to think about my

word of the year. I like to think about the energy that I'm bringing into the next year,

which you can do at any point. Like, it doesn't have to be a New Year's thing. You can at any point

decide that I want to change. I want to bring a different caliber,

a different frequency to my life. And at any point, you can reinvent yourself. But I think New Year's

is powerful because it gives us a good excuse. It gives us a little bit of like social pressure, i.e. you listening to this podcast, right?

You're like, Mary's doing this.

So I want to also.

And I think that that kind of energy can be really powerful if you are excited about New Year's.

I personally felt like the Grinch this Christmas. I was not into the whole holiday

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