I can hardly believe it, but one year ago today, with great hope and not a little trepidation, Trust Tending began. And what a tremendous year it’s been!! I’m grateful, tired, humbled, energized (yes, tired and energized, both!), satisfied, and filled with a sense that this – my work in this space – has only just begun.

I hope Trust Tending has been even a fraction as life-giving for you as it’s been for me, and that in coming weeks and months you find the offerings here even more reflective of the places you most hope your trust can grow.

As part of today’s celebration, I wonder whether you might consider taking a short, seven-question survey to help me get a better pulse on what people are liking, wanting, or wanting more of here? I’d be so grateful if you would! To me (and really to everyone who reads here in weeks and months to come), that’d be the best birthday present ever. :)

Click here for the short, anonymous survey.

Whether you take this survey or not, I’m so grateful for your presence here. I’m grateful for your company on this bumpy, trust-growing path, and for the wonderful challenge your presence is to me to continue on it with as much heart and…trust as I have to offer. There is so much more to come!! I cannot wait to share and experience it with you…

With all my heart,

Kristin

P.S. If you’re not a survey person, I’d still love to hear from you! I’d love to know who you are and what it is you come here for. What speaks to you here? What would you like to see more of? Comments or personal emails are equally welcome!

P.P.S. For those of you who wondered where my year-end reflections went last week, the answer is no where. :) They remain in my dear head, wishing for time to get put on a page.

While I watch for that, here are my favorite posts from 2011:

• Home in the dark
• On opening the heart
• Small steps into the wilds
• Staying with the discomfort of your power
• What change makers and rest of us need to hear
• Sexuality: Month-end reflections
• When hurry-up angst has you (a video post)
• Coping with death in all forms
• Letter from the universe
• Small acts of celebration
• And you find yourself in a soft place
• On impact
• It’s time

Happy New Year to you, even if what FEELS new to you is only your next breath. May this year (and this breath…and the next) hold riches for you, of the deepest, most trust-nourishing kind!