Ellen Mennell is recognized when it comes to her work in Social Justice, Inner Healing, Awakening, Religious Deconstruction and Religious Trauma. She is CEO of Advocate of Soul, an online coaching business, an International Speaker, Women’s Circle Facilitator, the author of AS IS, Book 1 & 2, and the host of Advocate of Soul., on YouTube.
As we enter 2025, personalized spiritual resolutions feel essential. The endless noise of social media trends, religious pressures, and the allure of influencers often clouds our path, making it harder to honor our inner truth. Taking control of your spiritual journey can help eliminate this chaos, ensuring your resolutions align with your unique self.
True spirituality thrives on authenticity, and this is more vital than ever. When you align resolutions with your values and needs, you create meaningful and sustainable practices free from external trends.
Owning your spiritual journey builds confidence and strengthens your connection to inner wisdom. It’s about trusting yourself to choose your path rather than outsourcing your direction to others. Personalized resolutions serve as a grounding force, keeping you centered and shielding your clarity and peace from external noise.
Discernment is crucial in 2025, as spirituality can easily distort into mere performance. Social media often transforms authentic practices into curated snapshots of aesthetically pleasing rituals, trendy mantras, or short-lived mindfulness hacks. While these posts aim to inspire, they frequently leave us feeling inadequate, measuring growth by likes rather than personal transformation. Scrolling through serene yoga poses or elaborate altar setups can make it easy to feel like you’re falling behind on your journey.
Religious institutions also add to the weight of external pressures. While they provide structure and community, they may impose rigid doctrines that conflict with evolving personal beliefs. Imagine the inner struggle of someone hesitant to question longstanding traditions out of fear of judgment, suppressing spiritual curiosity in the process.
Spiritual influencers contribute to this landscape. While many offer genuine wisdom, others commercialize spirituality, promoting costly retreats, courses, or products that promise enlightenment beyond your financial reach. These pressures foster dependency rather than empowerment, leaving individuals disconnected from their own plumbline in pursuit of someone else’s version of fulfillment.
Personalized resolutions are your guiding compass, helping you take back the power to determine what truly supports your spiritual well-being. They allow you to filter out what is not essential and focus on what resonates with your heart. More than that, they honor the ever-changing nature of spirituality, giving you the freedom to adjust and evolve your practices as life shifts. This flexibility keeps your journey real, meaningful, and uniquely yours, allowing you to grow in a way that feels authentic to who you are.
How to create resolutions that work for you
Creating meaningful resolutions is like planting seeds in the fertile soil of your soul. With intention, patience, and care, these seeds will grow into vibrant practices that nourish your spirit throughout the year. Here are a few tips on how to cultivate resolutions that are rich with meaning and aligned with your path.
1. Reflect on your current beliefs and practices
Begin with a heartfelt inventory of where you stand. What spiritual practices make your heart sing, and which feel like lifeless obligations? Like clearing a garden of weeds, release what no longer serves you, making room for growth.
2. Define your intentions
Intentions are like the guiding stars of your spiritual journey. They light the way, offering direction without the rigidity of strict goals. Instead of tying yourself to numbers or schedules, focus on cultivating a feeling or quality. Your intention becomes a gentle whisper guiding you back to presence.
3. Embrace simplicity
Spirituality doesn’t demand grand gestures. Often, simple practices carry the most profound impact. Think of a single drop of water creating ripples across a still pond. These small actions can transform your inner landscape. Such simplicity anchors you amidst life’s chaos.
4. Seek inspiration, not imitation
Let other practices inspire you, but remember your journey is unique. Draw wisdom from various traditions to reflect your soul, making each adaptation a sacred moment of your design.
5. Create a supportive environment
Your surroundings shape your practice. By cultivating a space and community that nourish your spirit, you create fertile ground for your resolutions to thrive. Surround yourself with symbols and people who uplift and inspire.
6. Practice self-compassion
Spiritual growth is not a straight path but a winding journey. When you stumble, think of it as part of the dance. Be gentle with yourself and view any misstep as an opportunity to begin again with tenderness and resolve.
Call to action: Reclaiming your spiritual path in 2025
Crafting resolutions that prioritize authenticity and autonomy fosters a fulfilling spiritual life aligned with your truth. Honoring your journey is an act of self-love and empowerment. Resist conformity and nurture practices that uplift your soul and spirit.
Reclaim your spiritual autonomy by embracing what resonates with your inner self. Commit to practices that inspire passion and joy, creating a sanctuary of clarity and peace amidst the noise. Share your journey with like-minded communities or find quiet reflection to anchor yourself.
Now is the time to design resolutions that celebrate your growth and evolving beliefs. With courage and intention, reject external pressures and embrace a path uniquely yours, inspiring authenticity and connection within and around you. Happy New Year, Everyone!
Ellen Mennell, Spiritual/ Empowerment Coach
Ellen Mennell, a trail blazer for Freedom, believes compassion, love, and understanding is key to healing our planet. This led her to live in more than 20+ nations leading humanitarian efforts around Social Justice. These experiences shaped Ellen’s life forever and gifted her with a diverse way of thinking, living and being. Overcoming Life’s challenges and Spiritual awakening led her to abandon decades of religious fundamentalism. Her journey has inspired others to rise into their own power. Ellen’s coaching strategy, writings, speaking events, and inner healing work gives permission to people everywhere to live from their own truth, by walking their own path, and by saying YES to what stirs their soul.
