1.10.26 | 💛 How I'm welcoming a year of renewal

Welcome to The Weekend Edit, a Saturday ritual from The Good Trade featuring our top 10 reads of the week and a weekend note from our co-founder, or one of out editors.

Happy weekend!

My heart goes out to each and every one of us at the start of the year. Be gentle with yourself. Be hopeful. Trust life, trust yourself. What’s meant to be will be.

A few weeks ago in Los Angeles, the sky opened up and offered us days and days of rain.

The irony of this timing is not lost on anyone who lives here. This time last year, we were living in a literal tinderbox — without a day of rain for many months — fearful of sparks that would eventually erupt into the loss and destruction of two of our most beloved communities. The Los Angeles fires were a universal heartache across an already deeply feeling city.

Spiritually, the fires felt like they ushered in a year of stripping and cleansing — sometimes dramatic and searing. Our team heard this sentiment among our readers far beyond Los Angeles. From so many of you, last year was described as a time of burning away old patterns and ways of being that were no longer sustainable, no longer aligned.

In the aftermath of the fires, I called an older spiritual woman I know for guidance. I was introduced to her years ago by a friend, and I’m not quite sure how she would describe herself — perhaps a minister, an intuitive, or a psychic. Over the years, she’s shared striking specifics about my life, from the timing of a forthcoming pregnancy to the financial details surrounding a business sale.

But more meaningful than any prediction, she has taught me over the years simple daily prayers. In that season of loss and clearing, she invited me to write a list of what I was willing to let go of, and what I was willing to call in.

These are the prayers that came to me, ones I spoke out loud every day through the rest of 2025:...