On Co-Creation

and going with the flow

Happy New Year! Yes, that’s still what it feels like for me, as if the new year is continuing to load and emerge. January and February are in the rearview, and as we move out of the depths of winter, the Year of the Horse is upon us, and the natural new year in spring awaits. Somehow, I feel like the Chinese zodiac was forgotten about for years and just rediscovered as we collectively moved through a weird year in 2025. The Year of the Snake symbolized shedding and transformation. For many of us, things changed, and things ended. Even still, some of us have entered this year experiencing resistance related to things that we haven’t fully surrendered yet as we buckle into our saddles for this new year.

I didn’t realize it was the Year of the Snake when this showed up across the threshold of my front door in May 2025.

In 2025, I reclaimed my creativity and deepened my spiritual connection, while growing and surrendering through significant transformations in career, love, and identity. I leaned into my community and started to pay deep attention to the things I noticed and how my body reacted to them, developing deeper trust in myself. During my morning journaling practice one day, a word popped into my head that I’d seen online earlier in the week and that feels descriptive of the year ahead: co-creation.

My first interaction with this term was in the context of co-creating your reality. I didn’t understand what this meant, in real life. After so much emphasis on going with the flow, I was confused as to how both concepts could co-exist. As I continued exploring the connection between flow and co-creation in my journal, what emerged is an understanding that each of these actions work symbiotically with the other. I realized that the co in front of creation means you are creating with someone/something else. The Universe (or God or life) and I are creating together, one constant loop in partnership where I am open to receive and alchemize what life provides and shape my experience. This is not an encouragement to be toxically positive or self-reliant, as I don’t buy into either of these philosophies. On the contrary, understanding that we all navigate various contexts and circumstances throughout our lives, this is a call to awareness, that we may remember our freedom to choose how we move through each moment. Going with the flow is an excellent reminder to stay fluid enough to interact with what you encounter in life, and co-creation implies working with it to influence your experience.

“The word peccadillo, which means a ‘small sin,’ comes from pecus, which means ‘defective foot,’ a foot that is incapable of walking a road. The way to correct the peccadillo is always to walk forward, adapting oneself to new situations and receiving in return all of the thousands of blessings this life generously offers to those who seek them.” — Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

I challenge myself to remember that I can shift how things are flowing with every thought, every feeling, emotion, intention, connection, practice, and the willingness to let go and allow, trusting the process that continues to move me into each new chapter.

Recommended Reading

• The Pilgrimage
  Paulo Coelho

• all about love
  bell hooks

Prompts:

• What does co-creation mean to you?

• How can you incorporate more awareness into each day?

• What are the things you currently pay attention to the most? What is the result of your attention to these things?

• What is one thing/thought/feeling/approach you could choose to shift this year?