6 sacred lessons from 2025
Publish Date: Thu 11th Nov 2025
Author: Verona Spence-Adofo
2025 has undoubtedly been a year of initiation, a period that has tested us, stretched us and ultimately transformed us. If you’ve made it to this point, take a moment to truly acknowledge and be proud of yourself! You’ve walked through experiences that most likely challenged your patience, your faith, your sense of stability and even your understanding of who you are becoming. You carry a story within you, a testament to resilience and growth, filled with moments that only you fully know and understand.
While this year has brought its share of difficulties, it has also opened the door to profound insight. Often, it’s in the most trying seasons that the deepest teachings emerge and 2025 has been no exception! Amid the chaos, confusion and unexpected shifts, many of us have uncovered truths about ourselves that we may not have seen otherwise.
In that spirit, I want to share some of the teachings and revelations that have risen to the surface for me throughout this year. Perhaps they will feel familiar to you, or mirror something you’ve been experiencing quietly within yourself. Let me know if any of them resonate? I’d love to hear your reflections.
1) Resilience through emotional detachment
This one definitely sits at the top of the list. This year often felt like an ongoing cycle of delays, stagnation and unexpected obstacles, almost as if life kept presenting yet another challenge the moment I caught my breath. But underneath that relentless wave of “one more thing,” something deeper was happening.
All of those disruptions slowly pushed me into releasing my attachment to controlling outcomes. Instead of spiralling into stress or anxiety, I found myself beginning to emotionally detach from the need to predict, manage, or force situations. Things that would have once sent me into a crippling panic no longer held the same power over me.
What emerged was a new level of emotional fortitude. I noticed myself meeting setbacks with calmness, choosing to stay present rather than being swept up by my external circumstances. And just to be clear, this wasn’t about ignoring problems or suppressing emotions. I still had moments where I cried, felt overwhelmed, or anxious and I allowed those feelings to move through me instead of allowing them to define and consume me,
Overall, I’ve become more resilient. Practices like qi gong and tapping helped me tune into my body, regulate my emotions and anchor myself even in the midst of uncertainty. My lesson through all of this is that strength isn’t always about pushing through, sometimes it’s about softening, surrendering and trusting that I can handle whatever life sends my way.
2) Self-validation
With social media working harder than ever to suppress independent voices through digital oppression, or what many of us recognise as the manipulative use of algorithms, creatives, business owners and free thinkers were hit especially hard this year. For many of us, it felt like our voices were being muted in real time. The result? Burnout. Discouragement. A sense of invisibility. Even deep questioning of our own value and purpose.
This collective experience brought forward a powerful inner question: Do you keep speaking when it feels like no one is listening? Do you continue creating when there is no visible audience? For me, the answer became clearer with time. I chose to value myself. I chose to speak when I genuinely had something meaningful to share, not when the algorithm demanded my presence. Choosing myself meant acknowledging my own needs and recognising when the digital space was doing more harm than good.
I noticed that every time I logged on, I felt anxious, inadequate and creatively blocked. It felt as though my spark had dimmed, my inspiration had evaporated and the work I once loved no longer felt nourishing. My energy was low, my motivation fragile. That’s when I realised that my creativity wasn’t flowing as I was overstimulated, depleted and disconnected from myself.
So, I stepped back. Several times in fact. I retreated intentionally throughout the year because I understood that healing and clarity wouldn’t come from forcing myself to “keep up” they would come from slowing down and turning inward. External noise drains us and constant digital stimulation leaves very little room for reflection or genuine creativity.
I’ve been in hermit mode for much of this year and I dedicated time to my own well-being, immersing myself in practices that grounded me, helping me reconnect with my body and breath. These practices brought me back into alignment, creating a sense of peace and acceptance. Through this inward journey, I realised that inspiration thrives not in pressure or performance, but in stillness, authenticity and self-connection.
3) Community
Spending time offline allowed me to fulfil one of my desires which was to find real community. I’ve been yearning to connect with like-minded souls in person, people who could truly see, hear and understand me for a while. I hold deep appreciation for the online community we’ve built through Ancestral Voices. It has been incredibly nourishing, especially for those of us who don’t always have people around us who share our path or worldview. That digital space has offered support, wisdom and connection in ways that have been invaluable.
But meeting people face-to-face awakened a different kind of fulfilment. In-person community reconnects us with our humanity, our natural instinct to gather, share energy and be present with one another. There’s something truly grounding and affirming about being in the physical presence with other kindred spirits.
In those moments, I found a deeper peace. Every genuine interaction reflected my worth back to me, reminding me that the digital world, with all its pressures and distortions, is only a small fragment of reality. What truly matters is the human connection, the warmth, the authenticity, the reminder that we are meant to live, breathe and grow in community.
4) Self-Autonomy, money & value
There has been a powerful collective emphasis on autonomy this year, autonomy over ourselves, our time, our choices and ultimately, the direction of our lives. This growing awareness feels like a natural response to our collective awakening: an awakening to how deeply capitalism has influenced, shaped and often restricted our sense of freedom. As more people began questioning these long-standing structures, it stirred something profound within us, not just personally, but ancestrally as well.
Old beliefs around scarcity, sacrifice and survival rose to the surface. Many of us confronted inherited narratives about money, such as the idea that we must suffer, overwork, or compromise our well-being just to deserve stability. Alongside this came a powerful shift in how people viewed their worth. I witnessed so many people setting firmer boundaries with employers or potential employers, asserting their value even when financial circumstances felt uncertain. It was a bold reclaiming of agency, a declaration that we are more than our labour and that money does not define our value.
This was also a year of courageous transitions. For many, it meant walking away from “secure” jobs in favour of self-employment, travel, healing or creative exploration. Some followed inner purpose over societal expectation, choosing the unknown instead of the predictable structure of a traditional 9–5. This leap of faith became one of the defining messages of 2025, the reminder that stepping into the unknown is often the very thing that aligns us with our deeper path. Choosing uncertainty became an act of empowerment.
I feel this collective shift is preparing us to break out of rigid, linear thinking, the kind that keeps us confined to the limitations of the 3D world. In its place, we are being guided toward a more fluid, expansive mindset, one that welcomes possibility, rapid transformation and multidimensional awareness. As we release old programs and beliefs, we open ourselves to higher frequencies of existence, moving closer to our authentic power and spiritual autonomy.
5) Health
If you’ve faced health challenges this year, know that you are not alone. Many of us have been confronted with physical, emotional, or energetic imbalances that forced us to slow down and reassess what truly matters. These experiences, while difficult, remind us that health is our truest form of wealth. We often become so consumed by work, goals, responsibilities and the expectations of others that we neglect the most essential part of our existence, our own well-being. These situations invite us to attune more closely to our body, to listen to its subtle language and to nurture its needs with intention and compassion.
This year I reached a point of extreme burnout where my sensitivity heightened to everything and everyone around me. My energy was completely drained and I felt emotionally raw. I couldn’t continue showing up in the ways I was used to, I had no choice but to prioritise myself and my mental and emotional health.
Anyone who is spiritually sensitive knows that we tend to take on energies and emotions from our surroundings, often carrying burdens that weren’t ours to begin with. Which can lead to exhaustion, emotional heaviness and a deep sense of depletion. It also makes us magnets for people who seek our light, warmth and guidance, without realising that they sometimes extract more than they give, without reciprocity, these dynamics can leave us drained if we’re not careful.
This year forced me to honour my own voice, my time and my energy. I had to draw boundaries I had previously avoided. As a lifelong people-pleaser, saying “no” has not always been easy for me. But life placed me in situations where choosing myself was no longer optional, it was necessary for my survival and healing. Stepping back became an act of self-preservation, a declaration that my wellbeing mattered.
And through this withdrawal, I learned one of the most important lessons of all: listening to your body and protecting your energy is not selfish, it is sacred self-respect.
6) Spiritual guidance
Not only were my creative energies blocked, but my communication with my ancestors and guides seemed to shift as well. As someone who is naturally spiritually receptive and accustomed to receiving guidance with clarity, it was unsettling to suddenly feel that their voices were not coming through in the way they once did. These experiences are often viewed as a sign of spiritual interference or attack and while I won’t dismiss that possibility entirely, I perceived the experience differently. Rather than feeling abandoned or disconnected, I sensed that this shift was part of a deeper process of spiritual evolution. Their voices may have quieted, but their presence remained unmistakable. In fact, the signs and synchronicities around me this year were far more frequent and much more vivid.
I’ve always had strong pattern-recognition abilities, so reading signs comes naturally to me. But this period challenged me to lean even more deeply into my intuition. It pushed me to trust my inner knowing rather than relying solely on audible or claircognizant communication. I began to realise that I don’t always need to hear my ancestors to be guided by them. Their wisdom lives within me; in the instincts I often second-guess and the quiet internal voice that speaks without words.
This experience taught me the silence is not absence, but an invitation to step into a deeper level of trust, inner authority and alignment with our own higher self.
These are just a few of the insights that revealed themselves to me this year, each one a vital lesson I needed to learn before stepping into the next chapter of my life. What felt like turbulence at times was really the closing of old cycles. Letting go isn’t always graceful; it can be painful, confusing, or heavy. Sometimes we have to fully sit with something, feel it, acknowledge it, understand it, before it can finally be released.
2025 became a year of witnessing. I watched myself move through challenges, noticing how I reacted, what triggered me and where I chose to direct my energy. This reflection showed me the parts of myself that had matured and the parts that still needed nurturing. I grew in ways I never anticipated. I stepped outside my comfort zone, acquired new skills, faced situations that pushed the limits of my resilience and proved to myself that I am capable of far more than I once believed. I’m genuinely proud of who I have become.
Every lesson, every obstacle, every moment of stillness eventually pointed inward. The real transformation was never about the external world; it was always about the inner one. I had to return to myself, reconnect with my own divinity and honour the essence of who I am beyond roles, expectations, or circumstances. This year taught me to love myself unconditionally, even when life felt uncertain or overwhelming.
In the end, the greatest shift was internal: a deeper alignment with my truth, my worth and my spiritual identity.
Written by Verona Spence-Adofo
(Ancestral Voices Co-Founder)
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