2025 End of Year Ritual

An end-of-year ritual from The Art of Unravelling

As the year turns, many of the usual tools for reflection fall short. Reviews, resolutions, and goal-setting often ask us to rush forward before we’ve properly let go. End Well, Begin Gently is a quiet, grounded ritual for closing a year with care and opening the next without force. Rather than pushing for clarity or certainty, this process helps you:

• release what has completed or drained you
• tend the ground you’re standing on
• notice where you genuinely have space and energy for what comes next
• set intention without pressure or performance

The ritual is designed to be worked through slowly, over a few days, or returned to at different points in the year. It’s reflective, practical, and deeply humane that offer structure without prescription.

What’s included

• A complete, step-by-step end-of-year ritual
• Guided composting of what has finished, stalled, or depleted you
• A soil-tending practice to sense readiness before beginning again
• Gentle prompts for discerning what you’ll carry forward
• A simple intention practice rooted in care, not ambition

This download gathers the full process into one place for those who’d like to work with it more fully, in their own time.

Who this is for

• Anyone feeling resistant to goals, plans, or big declarations
• People in transition or at a threshold
• Leaders, carers, and creatives carrying a lot
• Those who want to end well before beginning again

This is not a productivity tool, it is a way of listening, releasing, and beginning gently.