thanksgiving – Ruthann M. Wilson

Fall Reset: What to Release and Welcome This September

Do you love September as much as I do?

September invites an intentional return: to steadiness, to routine, to a rhythm that restores balance. As nature begins its quiet transition, we’re invited to notice the shift. Mornings grow cooler. Sunrise arrives later. Sunset arrives earlier. The landscape shifts, slowly but surely. What is ready to be released begins to fall, making space for what is ready to return.

Seasonal thresholds mark natural transitions in the year. Each one carries its own rhythm and invitation: to reflect, to release, to begin again, or to expand into full expression. September offers a moment to pause, reset, and align with what feels true in the new season, not through urgency, but through an intentional pause, awareness, and inquiry.

The Fall Equinox arrives Monday, September 22, 2025: a moment of balance between light and dark. It is a natural invitation to pause, reset, and align.

Each season brings gifts and opportunities for growth as we journey through the year. Let’s explore these gifts through an intentional framework, one that invites pause, awareness, inquiry, and alignment with what feels true in the new season. This framework includes:

Wisdom Seed – a grounding insight to center your attention
Seed Question – an inviting inquiry to stir awareness
Simple Practice – a simple way to engage the senses
Journal Prompt – space to name what is ready to be released and what is ready to emerge

Wisdom Seed

September is a month of return: to rhythm, to routine, to practices that restore balance. The air cools. The light shifts. Nature shifts. This threshold invites us to notice what is changing and respond with intention.

Seed Question

What subtle shift in rhythm or routine is calling your attention this season?

Simple Practice

Take a walk: no destination, no agenda. Notice the subtle changes of the season: the light, the temperature, the landscape. It speaks in subtle ways. Open and receive the wisdom of the season.

Journal Invitation

Whether you pause now or return later, let this prompt meet you where you are:
- What are you ready to welcome?
- What are you ready to release?

Thank you for pausing here. September, too, is a pause, a subtle, transitional threshold for resetting and aligning with what feels true in the new season. If this reflection feels meaningful, please share it with others.

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All the best,
Ruthann

Fall Reflections: Harvest, Release, and Completion

Each season arrives with its own rhythm, offering an invitation to pause, gather, and grow.

Autumn is a season of harvest and reflection, a time of thanksgiving, completion, and release of what no longer brings joy or serves your highest good.

🍂 Autumn Questions to Sit With:

What have I accomplished this year?
What didn’t I accomplish that I really wanted to? Why?
Who or what has been my greatest blessing?
What feels complete in my life and ready to be released?
How might I release what is complete with gratitude and love?

Thank you for pausing here. If these questions resonate, I invite you to share them with someone who might also be walking an Autumn path of reflection.

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All the best,
Ruthann

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Fall Reflections: Harvest, Release, and Completion

Each season brings gifts and opportunities for growth as we journey through the year.

Autumn is a season of harvest, reflection, thanksgiving, completion, and releasing/letting go of things that no longer bring you joy or serve your highest good.

Autumn questions:

What have I accomplished this year?
What didn’t I accomplish that I really wanted to? Why?
Who or what has been my greatest blessing? Why?
What in my life is complete/ready to be released so that I can embrace the next phase of my journey?
How can I release what is complete with gratitude and love?

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All the best,

Ruthann

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Fall Reflections: Harvest, Release, and Completion

Each season brings gifts and opportunities for growth as we journey through the year.

Autumn is a season of harvest, thanksgiving, reflection, completion, and letting go of what no longer serves you so that you can fully embrace the new year.

I invite you to begin the process of bringing this year to a close by reflecting on the year relative to your goals. Celebrate what you have accomplished to date and make a plan, if you don’t already have one, to complete what needs to be completed by the end of the year.

Give thanks for your blessings as a part of this process. If you keep a gratitude journal, take time to review what you have captured over the course of the year and how your life has changed as a result of your blessings. If you don’t have a regular gratitude practice, consider starting a daily practice of writing 3-5 things you consider gifts, blessings, or life lessons in a journal or notebook.

Set aside 15-20 minutes of silence each day in coming weeks to explore what you need to release so that you can fully embrace the new year. Begin your quiet time by asking what is complete and ready to be released. Expect that you will receive guidance. When you ask a question in the context of sacred time, it is no longer a simple question. It is an invocation for revelation. Capture your guidance in a notebook or journal and move into action with confidence that you are being guided to your highest good.

Autumn is a wonderful time to clear clutter in preparation for the new year and new opportunities. Be willing to let go of things that no longer bring you joy or serve your highest good.

Start setting yourself up for an amazing new year now.

Questions for reflection

What have I accomplished this year?
What didn’t I accomplish that I really wanted to? Why?
Who or what has been my greatest blessing? Why?
What is complete in my life and ready to be released so that I can embrace the next phase of my journey?
- Assess all areas of your life
How can I begin releasing what is complete with gratitude and love?
- Trust your inner guidance

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All the best,

Ruthann

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