Higher Self Mastery

28: My 2025 Recap, Parenting Storms, Grief, Perimenopause, and Proud Milestones

Dharmi Schumacher Episode 28

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Want the real story of my 2025, the messy bits and the magic bits? I’m sharing the mindset that helped me hold both. If you need permission to be human, press play.

Want the real story of my 2025, the messy bits and the magic bits? I’m sharing the mindset that helped me hold both. If you need permission to be human, press play.

This is a personal end of year episode, not a lesson, just me speaking honestly about what this year held in different areas of my life.

There were big highs in my work, and there were also months where home life completely floored me. There was grief, hormones, parenting storms, and some deeply proud milestones too, often running side by side.

In this episode, I reflect on:

• The season that stretched me the most as a mum
• The quiet grief of losing a friendship, and what helped me let go
• Perimenopause symptoms that made everything feel sharper and harder
• The wins and milestones that still arrived in the middle of it all
• Why surrender and trust have become non negotiable for me

If you’re reflecting on your own year and feeling like it was a mix of heartbreak and breakthroughs, I hope this helps you feel a little less alone, and a little more steady as you move into 2026.

Subscribe, listen, and then take five minutes to ask yourself, what am I proud of, and what am I no longer willing to carry forward.


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