✨ End-of-Year Gratitude: Community, Connection & Full-Circle Moments ✨

As we close out the year, my heart keeps landing on one word: gratitude - for the collaboration, the community, and the connection that have shaped every corner of my life and work in 2025.

This season has been a beautiful reminder that we don’t rise alone. We rise because of the people who walk beside us, the ones who show up again and again, and the ones who become family through purpose, shared stories, and brave conversations.

Honoring Penny & the Power of Wingspan

This November marked three years since Penny passed, and our community showed up in ways that continue to take my breath away. Through Penny’s Flight, we honored her beautiful wingspan- supporting groundbreaking NF research, empowering students across the country, and reminding the world what it looks like when love turns into action.

Your support - your light - helped carry us through this milestone with grace and meaning. Thank you for honoring Penny with us.

A Year of Connection & Coming Full Circle

From hosting workshops on movement, connection, and reimagining grief…

to brand events that helped fuel the mission of Penny’s Flight…

to corporate speaking engagements and standing at Parsons and speaking on purpose-driven storytelling to a room filled with longtime colleagues who have become dear friends…

This year brought full-circle moments that reminded me that our stories keep unfolding when we stay open, curious, and lead heart-first.

I am especially grateful for the colleagues turned friends who invited me into their rooms, trusted my voice, and helped amplify this message of purpose and possibility.

Lessons I’m Carrying Into the New Year

These are the reminders I’ve been sharing in workshops and conversations - and the ones I’m holding close myself:

✨ Honor your people. Celebrate the ones who shaped you, even if the holidays look different now.

✨ Choose connection. Reach for your “sunshine people” - the ones who make you feel seen, grounded, and lighter.

✨ Move your energy. Even five minutes of movement shifts your mindset and strengthens your resilience.

✨ Create small anchors. A morning ritual, a daily gratitude note, a walk with a friend - tiny habits that keep you steady.

✨ Lead with purpose. Your wingspan - your impact - isn’t measured by time, but by how generously you show up.

Thank You for Being Part of This Community

Whether you attended a workshop, donated to Penny’s Flight, helped move the mission forward, or simply offered kindness along the way - thank you.

Your support, your partnership, and your belief in this work have made this year meaningful in ways I will always hold close.

Here’s to more connection, more collaboration, more courage, and more heart-first living in the new year ahead.

✨ And a Big Year Ahead… ✨

I’m thrilled to share that my book, Reimagining Grief, published by Hay House, will be launching on June 16, 2026.

Save the date- and stay tuned for more details coming in January. I cannot wait to share this work with you.

With deep gratitude and an open heart,

Kate
🦋 Reimagining Grief (Hay House, June 2026)