Hey there, friend—
I’ve been doing some reflecting over the last year—on the moments that shaped me, the lessons that stretched me, and the experiences that softened my edges or strengthened my resolve in ways I didn’t expect.
And, as I’ve been bringing these reflections to a close, I’ve gently shifted my focus to who I’m becoming as the new year comes into view.
A big part of my personal process is to explore a bit of my own astrology, numerology, and human design while also looking at the numerical energetics and planetary alignments taking shape at the onset of each new year.
2025 is a year of refinement, sophistication, and grace. In numerology, the number 9 represents a completion cycle—a time when we mature, evolve, and master ourselves, not just for the sake of achievement but for inner fulfillment and wholeness.
While we often think of these qualities as how an individual expresses themself, I’d like to emphasize that these qualities also point to how we show up to the work of our inner self-mastery.
How can we refine our spiritual practices? How does grace show up in our quality of presence? How can you bring more sophistication into the overall way you move through your personal evolution?
This year isn’t about chasing goals at breakneck speed; it’s about becoming the woman who moves through life with elegance and purpose. It’s about closing old chapters in a way that feels fully resolved, stepping into new ones with clarity and intention.
To guide your journey, here are five potential qualities to refine—should you have a desire to work with the energies of 2025—and how you can begin embodying one of them today:
Side note: if these qualities aren’t quite the vibe you’re feeling for 2025, then feel free to make a list of your own top 5 qualities that you’d like to embrace this year. This is, after all, YOUR year—so you do YOU!
1. Grace
Grace isn’t just about how we appear to others; it’s about how we move through life’s challenges with calm and poise. It’s the ability to hold space for ourselves and others, even in difficult moments.
Reflection Prompt: How can I respond to today’s challenges with more grace?
Action Step: When you feel triggered, pause and take three deep breaths before reacting. Choose a response that aligns with your highest self.
2. Sophistication
Sophistication goes beyond external polish; it’s about depth of character and discernment. It’s knowing when to speak and when to listen, when to act and when to rest.
Reflection Prompt: How can I refine my communication today to be more thoughtful and intentional?
Action Step: Choose one conversation today to approach with heightened awareness. Speak with intention and listen with presence.
3. Inner Mastery
Inner mastery is about self-awareness and emotional regulation. It’s the ability to navigate our inner world with skill, transforming triggers into opportunities for growth.
Reflection Prompt: Where am I being invited to deepen my self-awareness?
Action Step: Journal for five minutes on a recurring emotional pattern. What lesson might this pattern be offering you?
4. Fulfillment
True fulfillment comes from aligning with what brings us meaning and joy. It’s about living in a way that feels rich, not rushed.
Reflection Prompt: What small action can I take today that would bring me joy?
Action Step: Do one thing today purely because it lights you up. It could be as simple as a walk in nature or playing your favorite music.
5. Elegance
Elegance is a way of being—it’s about how we show up, how we carry ourselves, and how we make decisions. It’s moving through life with a sense of ease and purpose.
Reflection Prompt: How can I bring more elegance into my actions today?
Action Step: Focus on one area where you can slow down and move with intention. Whether it’s how you prepare your morning coffee or how you transition from one task to the next, bring a sense of presence and ease.
I recommend you work with one quality each day to begin refining it and make it part of your own unique blueprint and expression.
Which of these five qualities will you embody today?
I invite you to take one action step and notice how it shifts your day.
All the love,
Tris
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An International Bestselling Author, Lifestyle and Leadership Coach and speaker, Tris Thorp is one of today’s leading experts in the field of personal growth and leadership development, specializing in emotional healing, women’s empowerment and shadow work.
Having spent a decade traveling the world, being trained by and sharing the stage with Dr. Deepak Chopra in the field of social emotional learning, consciousness and mindfulness-based practices, Tris has a real gift for integrating the ancient spiritual teachings with modern-day science and mindfulness to help people all over the world let go of their past and create an empowered new future.
During her tenure at the Chopra Center, Tris apprenticed under the Chopra Center’s co-founder Dr. David Simon, co-facilitating the Healing the Heart and Emotional Freedom workshops alongside him. Prior to his passing in 2012, Dr. Simon appointed Tris as the person to carry on his teachings in the field of emotional healing. In addition, Tris was fortunate to be mentored by the late Debbie Ford prior to her passing in 2013, which is where she continued her extensive studies of the unconscious mind and concepts of the persona and shadow. After the loss of her two mentors, Tris went on to become certified through the Ford Institute as a coach specializing in Shadow Work and reconciling mental and emotional issues stemming from past experiences. She continues to share the gifts of emotional healing and facilitating this work in the footsteps of her former mentors.
Tris is the International bestselling author of Healing Your Heart: Rewrite Your Story with Awareness and Intention. A guide book to understanding your emotions, how we create our story and workable tools and techniques to heal from the past, Healing Your Heart stewards you through the process of releasing mental and emotional baggage, forgiving yourself and others, setting and enforcing boundaries and consciously communicating your needs in a loving and effective way so you can be who you’re meant to be, do the things you want to do and have all that you deserve to have in this life.
Tris is also the co-author of bestseller Mental and Emotional Release® with Dr. Matt James. Written in a language both professionals and non-professionals can understand, Mental and Emotional Release® offers real life case studies, an overview of MER and its foundation, step by step scripts to follow, and clinical efficacy studies comparing MER to other therapies.
Clearly in her dharma, Tris’s passion and dedication to gently guide people on their inward journey through personal growth is evident in her work as a Lifestyle and Leadership coach, Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release and workshop facilitator. She teaches various courses on leadership development, personal empowerment, social emotional learning and higher states of consciousness – both in online courses and her certification programs, live workshops, VIP retreats and 1-1 clients.
Tris Thorp is Board Certified by the Association of Integrative Psychology as a Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release ®, Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, and Mental and Emotional Release ®, a Certified Reiki Master, and an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.
Tris is devoted to inspiring and empowering others to cultivate and maintain mindfulness-based lifestyle practices that lead to greater clarity, purpose and fulfillment. Through one-on-one coaching, online programs and live events, Tris specializes in helping people to fully release negative emotions, limiting beliefs and unconscious patterns, enabling them to make quantum leaps into the life they are truly meant to be living.