Cypress Digest 🌲01.06.26

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New Year’s resolutions are fragile. The flu is not.

New Year’s has a very specific vibe. Reflection. Fresh starts. Big plans.The illusion that this will finally be the year we get it together.

And then… the flu.

Somehow, New Year’s turned into Flu-Years in our house. My husband and my three-year-old both caught it (this absolute plague) and overnight, our week of intention became a rotating system of thermometers, cough monitoring, and oh please Lord don’t let me get it…

A week meant for clarity and fresh starts turned into survival mode. There’s something humbling about getting sick in January. You don’t ease into the year; you’re immediately reminded who’s in charge, and it’s not your vision board. The flu doesn’t care about goals. It doesn’t respect planners. It laughs in the face of “new routines.”

Suddenly, success looks less like progress and more like everyone being upright.

And to tell it straight, I don’t even know what was worse, the sickness itself or realizing how fragile my optimism was on January 1st.

But somewhere between the laundry piles and the quiet house, something shifted. Expectations lowered. Priorities simplified. The new year outlook stopped being about improvement and started being about endurance and (my favorite) flexibility.

Which, if we’re being real, is how most years actually begin.

So if your fresh start looks less like a clean slate and more like making it through, you’re not behind. You’re just living in reality. Sometimes the reset isn’t a new habit or a big plan. Sometimes it’s just getting everyone healthy again and calling that a win.

And honestly? That’s a pretty solid way to start the year.

Cheers, Cypress!- Ashlyn 🌲💚