The close of a year is a threshold—a place to pause between what has been and what has not yet taken shape. And as this year comes to an end, many of us are standing at that threshold carrying exhaustion, grief, moral injury, vicarious trauma, and a growing sense that the moral fabric of our society is fraying.

This is why this year in particular, traditional year-end practices—goal setting, resolutions, productivity resets—feel hollow. They ask us to perform certainty and feign normalcy, when what we actually need is space to witness what we’ve lived and to process what we’re carrying.

This guide and journal is grounded in spiritual ecology and moral imagination — the capacity to hold pain and possibility together, to loosen ourselves from inherited stories that no longer serve us, and to move toward what comes next.