January 2026 RHG Magazine ( Start the New Year on Purpose and With Great Purpose)

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2026, Start the New Year on Purpose and With Great Purpose of our RHG Magazine™!

A new year offers a meaningful pause. It invites us to breathe, reflect, and choose how we want to move forward. January is a natural reset, a moment where clarity rises, intentions surface, and we’re reminded that purposeful living begins with the choices we make each day.

When we step into the year with intention, something shifts. Our focus sharpens. Our energy aligns. Possibilities feel closer. And when we pair purpose with great purpose, with heart, courage, and vision, we create space for growth, impact, and joy.

In this issue, our wonderful contributors share insights to support you as you set the tone for 2026. Their wisdom will help you anchor into what matters most, release what no longer serves, and build rhythms that bring more meaning to your days.

We’re also celebrating the ongoing accomplishments of our RHG community, authors launching new books, leaders stepping into new opportunities, and individuals using their gifts to uplift others. Their journeys are a beautiful reminder that purposeful action, taken consistently, transforms lives.

As you explore these pages, may you feel encouraged to begin this year with clarity, intention, and a renewed sense of purpose. May 2026 be a year where your light shines even brighter.

Remember:

“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.”

Vern McLellan

“The person who is aligned with purpose becomes unstoppable.”

Wayne Dyer

“True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

Helen Keller

As we step into this new chapter together, may you feel supported, inspired, and guided. May each intention you set be met with grace, and each purposeful step lead you closer to what you’re meant to create and contribute this year.

Thank you for being part of our RHG community. I’m honored to walk into 2026 with you and look forward to all the growth, breakthroughs, and meaningful moments ahead.

Warmly,

“The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and purposefully.”

- Charles Dickens

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Toastmasters International is a global nonprofit educational organization dedicated to helping people become more effective communicators and leaders. Since its founding in 1924 by Dr. Ralph C. Smedley in Santa Ana, California, Toastmasters has grown into one of the most respected and accessible personal development organizations in the world. Its mission is simple and powerful. Toastmasters empowers individuals to develop confidence, competence, and clarity in their communication so they can lead more effectively in every area of life.

Over the past century, Toastmasters has expanded far beyond that first small club in a YMCA basement. Today it includes more than 270,000 members in over 14,000 clubs across 150 countries. These clubs meet regularly to practice public speaking, improve leadership skills, and give and receive constructive feedback in a safe, supportive environment.

Inside a Toastmasters meeting, participants learn by doing. Members prepare speeches, think on their feet, give evaluations, and take on rotating leadership roles. Everything is designed to build real world skills. The program is selfpaced and hands-on. Members continually strengthen their communication, emotional intelligence, collaboration, and confidence.

Why Join Toastmasters?

Organizations worldwide turn to Toastmasters because communication is the skill that drives every measure of success. Companies that host Toastmasters clubs see transformative benefits. Employees communicate more clearly, collaborate more effectively, and step confidently into leadership. Teams experience higher engagement, stronger morale, and better problem solving.

A Toastmasters club within your organization becomes an ongoing professional development engine. Members sharpen their presentation skills, learn to manage meetings, practice respectful dialogue, and build the confidence needed for high stakes communication. These improvements ripple outward across departments and elevate the overall culture.

Unlike traditional training events that last a day, Toastmasters creates continuous growth. Week after week, employees build skills that last throughout their careers. The club becomes a community of encouragement that supports retention, development, and leadership succession.

Why Start a Toastmasters Club in Your Organization?

Launching your own Toastmasters club is one of the most cost effective and impactful investments you can make in your people. It creates a structured, proven pathway for communication and leadership development that is affordable, inclusive, and scalable.

A corporate Toastmasters club helps you:

Strengthen internal communication

Build confident presenters and managers

Prepare future leaders

Reduce meeting inefficiencies

Improve cross team collaboration and morale

Develop employees in a supportive, nonjudgmental environment

Most importantly, it builds a culture of continuous learning. When your employees grow, your entire organization grows with them.

An Invitation

Imagine a group within your organization where individuals consistently become more confident, articulate, collaborative, and inspired. Imagine a leadership pipeline strengthened by employees who practice and refine communication every week. Imagine a workplace where individuals feel supported to step into their full potential.

This is what a Toastmasters club delivers.

Sherry Lynn Campbell, #1 International Bestselling Novelist, Children’s Book Author and Storyteller

Let us give a warm welcome to a powerful author, #1 International Bestselling Novelist, and storyteller, Sherry Lynn Campbell!

She creates stories which invite readers to meet new characters, join adventures and discover magic along the way. These stories include her first novel, the #1 International Bestseller The Storyteller’s Quilt Beginnings Are Boundless, and children’s books M is for Mother, F is for Father, and The Five Little Snow Kids.

Share with us about you/your organization, mission and purpose.

Share with us the title of your Book and a short 1-3 sentence description of your Book.

M is for Mother and F is for Father, are the first two books in a series written for early childhood readers that celebrate family. These books began as songs, and grew into something much bigger. The words and artwork take the reader through the stages of earliest life through to elementary age childhood.

What inspired you to write your book?

These books were written to celebrate the joys and wonder of childhood which happen every day. These books were also written with the purpose of raising money to help empower children’s hospitals and other agencies that assist children and families in crisis.

I am a wife, mother, storyteller and a dreamer. My company, WonderEddy, and my stories and songs, are all about encouraging others to live from their heart every day in every way. My purpose is to find ways to BE LOVE in the world through my skills as a storyteller, and along the way create an eddylution of love that brings hope and joy into the lives of as many as I can reach. 9

For the past ten years these books have raised Hospital, Ronald McDonald’s House, LifeMove through sales at their Discovery Shop.

Describe something our readers today can look forward to discovering in your book.

These books are meant to grow with the child and the family, first as a listener, then as an early reader, then from an older sibling reading to a younger sibling. There is sheet music included in each book to allow the child and family to learn how to make music together.

What are 1-3 tips you can give our readers to help them step forward in their life powerfully?

Reading with a child is precious bonding time. It creates a special connection between child and parent promoting togetherness by sharing thoughts, and personal stories about life and meaning. Reading together can aid in creating a lifetime love of reading as well as imagining possibilities for both parent and child. Share something you are passionate about. I am passionate about children. Each of them is unique and individual. Every day a child showed up to the classroom, they came with an attitude that was new and ready to start afresh in learning and being. I realized I could have that kind of outlook and curiosity in my life too, as every day a new story begins.

What are some ways you are helping to bring this forward in the world? After I graduated from college, I didn’t go into teaching right away. I needed time to find out what was out there. And, what I found led me right back to school to get my Master in Education, specializing in Montessori Theory and Practice for Early Childhood. After 20 plus years of teaching, I realized my favorite subject was reading, storytelling and music circle. Focusing on that brought about my first three books, which were born from songs. I realized that the magic of making music and storytelling created an immediate connection with children. I want to share that magic.

What tip or piece of advice can you share with our readers today to empower them to SHINE?

Love yourself. All of yourself, warts and all. Take moments to celebrate who you are. It doesn’t mean your life will be perfect, but it gives you strength and courage to face your life which helps in changing and pivoting. A visual that helps me to remember this is, that like the face of a sunflower which follows the sun throughout the day, I can keep my sight focused on the sunshine.

I had to get out of my own way, and be who I was, not who or what anybody else thought I should be. I wanted to be a writer. I had never stopped writing. I had never stopped dreaming. By staying true to myself, and my dream, I kept working on my word-smithing and craft. I found mentors to help. I continued to reach out to people until I found someone who said Yes.

Lisa Sitze, Life Coach and author of #1 International Best Selling Book, Facing Your Demons

Join me in welcoming into our Author Spotlight, a Mother, a Granny, a Life Coach and a #1 International Best Selling Author, Lisa Sitze!

Share with us the title of your Book and a short 1-3 sentence description of your Book. Facing Your Demons: Healing Beyond Narcissistic Family Relationships. Facing Your Demons teaches ways to focus on healing self without being selfish, allows for the struggle without letting it break you and helps you to discover how to create your own healthier more abundant life.

Share with us about you/your organization, mission and purpose. My mission is to teach ready individuals how to discover their own superpower. This superpower, our agency, makes it possible to heal at our own speed and in our own uniquely, healthy way.

What inspired you to write your book? God started it.

Describe something our readers today can look forward to discovering in your book.

This book will show you how finding your core self was never more rewarding. Identifiers is just one thing you can learn about. Learning how to notice identifiers is such a powerful tool! They not only help us navigate past negative experiences but help us while we are in the thick of navigating a current problem or trauma. They are the nudges we notice when we are triggered. They are also the solution ideas that pop up when we are in the middle of a traumatic experience. When partnered with wisdom, they can solve some of our most difficult problems.

What are 1-3 tips you can give our reader to help them step forward in their life powerfully?

RAD:

1. Learn to recognize how the things that are wrong in your life would look without the attached negative emotions.

2. Acknowledge the part you played in that thing without placing blame on yourself or anyone else.

3. Decide what you want to do from here moving forward.

Share something you are passionate about:

I am most passionate about teaching people how to recognize their agency as a superpower. This is the foundation of our empowerment.

What are some ways you are helping to bring this forward in the world?

Besides having written and published my book, I am now learning to be a speaker. I am also forming a program with a good friend of mine.

Share something you have overcome or a success story with us.

From my dedication: “To the one who watched out for me from above as my guardian angel my entire childhood: thank you for letting me live my pains, my joys, my discoveries, and my journey and for guiding me toward opportunities to learn to live my life, my way.” I feel it shows how far I’ve come having learned to see my life’s difficulties as potential learning experiences rather than permanently destructive traumas.

What does thriving mean to you?

- Thriving means living a life of abundance. With that said, abundance looks vastly different to each one of us. To me, it looks like family working together, playing together and functioning within the bounds of respect and love.

- It also looks like having multiple streams of income that easily flow to me so I can focus on the more important things in my life like family, writing my fantasy novels and being a speaker.

What tip or piece of advice can you share with our readers today to empower them to SHINE?

Live everyday like it’s a gift. Not because you did something to deserve it but because it was given as a chance to make something better for everyone, including yourself.

Join Rebecca as she celebrates our Top Influencers! These powerful men and women have been recognized by major media like FOX, ABC, CBS News, and NBC!

Wisdom from the Heart December Inspirations

In an ever-evolving world, the authors of the #1 International bestseller "Wisdom from the Heart" draw upon their profound insights to inspire individuals to embrace their full potential. With wisdom that transcends boundaries, let these inspirations guide and encourage you to tap into your resilience, cultivate a growth mindset, and seize opportunities with unwavering courage. Let these inspirations be your compass, guiding you to unlock the extraordinary possibilities within and be ready to thrive in every facet of life.

Stop. Pause. Listen. Then Choose.

I believe the ability to live on purpose and with purpose is tied closely to stopping, pausing and listening. January is the perfect month to pause, sit in your living room or in front of a fireplace with a nice warm beverage, shoes kicked off and legs outstretched. Ah!

Feel the warmth, smell the fire and listen to the buzz of all that is going on around you. And listen within. Living a life on purpose and with purpose means listening for the wisdom your heart has to tell you. Take a deep breath and lean in a little more to the reminder of who you are and what you are called to bring forth.

Then choose your next steps on purpose and in alignment with what matters most to you to bring forward, one breath, step and choice at a time.

Inspiration by Rebecca Hall Gruyter, Influencer, Publisher, and Animal Communicator

The Dragon’s Call: Shedding

Old Skin for Renewal

“The year of the dragon is revered in many cultures for its symbolism of transformation and renewal, serves as a powerful reminder of shedding old patterns and embracing growth (Wikipedia).” It’s a chance to assess our

In embracing change, we tap into our innate power to shape our destiny. By fostering a growth mindset, authenticity and resilience, we navigate the unknown with courage and curiosity. Each transition becomes an opportunity for self-discovery and renewal, guiding us towards greater alignment with our true selves and deepest aspirations.

As we courageously embrace our own transformation, we inspire others to embark on their own journeys of growth and evolution. Together, we weave a narrative of empowerment and possibility, creating energetic positive change that reverberates far beyond ourselves

In closing, let us remember the words of Maya Angelou, who said, “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” May we find solace in the beauty of our own transformations, embracing the journey with open hearts and steadfast determination.

Inspiration by Deborah Wiener, creator of The Energetic Business Feng Shui System™ journey from where we began, where we are now and where we aspire to go. Like shedding old skin, we shed outdated energies, including people, places and things that no longer align with our energy. As Heraclitus famously said, “Change is the only constant in life,” reminding us that transformation is inherent to our existence.

Start on Purpose

Happy New Year, friends! As we begin this fresh chapter, let’s make a resolution to start the new year on purpose.

You know what I mean-no more sleepwalking through life, nodding off during the good stuff. This year, we’re going to be wide awake and intentional, like a kid on Christmas morning!

Maybe your “purpose” is to deepen your faith, launch that side hustle or finally learn to bake something besides hockey pucks. (Hey, no judgment here-I once tried to make bread and ended up with a solid doorstop!)

Whatever your goal, approach it with the energy and enthusiasm of a puppy chasing a squirrel. Leap over obstacles, shake off setbacks and keep that tail wagging, with your tongue hanging out.

Because here’s the thing: When we live on purpose, we open ourselves up to all the blessings God has in store. It’s like leaving a trail of breadcrumbs that lead straight to His grace.

So let’s make 2026 the year we stop drifting and start directing. Let’s chase our dreams with wild abandon, knowing that our purposeful pursuit is pleasing to the One who dreamed us up in the first place.

Who’s with me? Let’s make this year one for the books or at least for your social media posts!

Inspiration by Janet Bernice Cheney, life-coach and best-selling author

New Year Bliss

“As the new year unfolds, discover the beauty of starting anew and the power of creating your own path to bliss.”

As we welcome the fresh beginning of a new year, may we embrace the endless possibilities that lie ahead. Each new year presents us with a chance to start afresh, to reevaluate our goals and to pave our own paths to bliss.

Embrace the beauty of starting anew, for it is in these moments of transformation that we discover our true potential. As we shed the layers of the past, we make room for growth, creativity and joy. Make this year the year you break free from the constraints of yesterday and step boldly into a future of limitless opportunity.

Creating your own path to bliss is a powerful and empowering journey. It is about owning your choices, following your heart and living authentically. Don’t be afraid to forge a path that is uniquely yours, for it is in the pursuit of your dreams that you truly find fulfillment.

As you navigate the twists and turns of the new year, remember to stay true to yourself, trust in your abilities and believe in the magic of new beginnings. May this year be filled with moments of joy, peace and endless possibilities. Here’s to creating a year full of bliss and beauty.

Create Your Future

Know what you want. You can’t create something you can’t think of, so be very clear. Imagine all the details. Write it out. Map it out. Create a vision board.

Focus less on what you don’t want and more on what you do want. Start by taking a small step toward that today and then another step every day until your reach your goal.

Inspiration by Jaimie Harnagel, Shaman

Take First Steps

It’s important to take those first steps and trust . . . even if it is scary. You don’t get anywhere if you don’t take steps. One at a time and soon the next step will move you forward. Trust your heart, take steps and see the wonderful places you will go and you will see.

Inspiration by Pumpkin(g), the cat

Looking back on 2025, we celebrate a remarkable year of bestselling books. We are so honored to help bring forth these powerful bestsellers! The following books all became bestsellers on Amazon - some of them within the first 12 hours of their release!

Looking back on 2025, we celebrate a remarkable year of bestselling books. We are so honored to help bring forth these powerful bestsellers! The following books all became bestsellers on Amazon - some of them within the first 12 hours of their release!

Looking back on 2025, we celebrate a remarkable year of bestselling books. We are so honored to help bring forth these powerful bestsellers! The following books all became bestsellers on Amazon - some of them within the first 12 hours of their release!

Looking back on 2025, we celebrate a remarkable year of bestselling books. We are so honored to help bring forth these powerful bestsellers! The following books all became bestsellers on Amazon - some of them within the first 12 hours of their release!

Looking back on 2025, we celebrate a remarkable year of bestselling books. We are so honored to help bring forth these powerful bestsellers! The following books all became bestsellers on Amazon - some of them within the first 12 hours of their release!

Looking back on 2025, we celebrate a remarkable year of bestselling books. We are so honored to help bring forth these powerful bestsellers! The following books all became bestsellers on Amazon - some of them within the first 12 hours of their release!

Looking back on 2025, we celebrate a remarkable year of bestselling books. We are so honored to help bring forth these powerful bestsellers! The following books all became bestsellers on Amazon - some of them within the first 12 hours of their release!

Will your book be the next one to be featured here?

Karen Ann Bulluck, Author, Speaker, and Founder of Daring to Transcend®

Let us welcome our next author into the spotlight, Karen Ann Bulluck, Author, Speaker, Founder of Founder of Daring to Transcend ! A powerful and aspirational storyteller, Karen Ann Bulluck is a former corporate executive and accomplished risk-taker. ®

Share with us the title of your Book and a short 1-3 sentence description of your Book.

The book is called Embracing Trust: Book 3 of the Ascending Ladders Series. It follows the journeys of three corporate women as they struggle with various aspects of trust. Alisha has broken the trust of her colleagues and needs to rebuild it; Sheryl has had her trust shattered and fights to open her heart again; and Gemma takes a huge leap of faith, only to wonder if she’s trusted the right people. Each must learn how to embrace trust so that she can thrive.

What inspired you to write your book?

First, I realized after completing book two of my series that a lot of trust had been broken… and left broken. Where did these characters go next? Second, I looked at the trust issues that a lot of us are having, me included. How do you trust? Who do you trust? And how do you rebuild trust after it’s been shattered? It seemed to me that these are questions that are relevant to all of us in one way or another.

Describe something our readers today can look forward to discovering in your book. We’ve all been victims of betrayal at some point in our lives. How we handle those betrayals differs. We have choices. I think readers may discover how the different choices the characters make might inspire them to think about trust in their own lives in new ways

What are 1-3 tips you can give our reader to help them step forward in their life powerfully?

Like the women in Embracing Trust, you first have to acknowledge where trust has been broken. Second, you have to wrestle with forgiveness. Forgiving yourself. Forgiving others where you can. Finally, you have to understand if you’re willing to take a leap of faith again…and with whom. These aren’t easy steps, but rebuilding trust is necessary for us to have healthy relationships.

Share something you are passionate about. I’m passionate about bringing more humanity and hope into the workplace. I’m also passionate about women taking more risks – strategic risks, not crazy ones. I think you need the second to bring about the first.

What are some ways you are helping to bring this forward in the world? Mostly through storytelling in my novels and my public speaking. I love to share my story, the stories of other women, and the stories of my characters. I love that fiction allows us to experience “what if” situations and resolve them in aspirational ways. Fiction gives us the opportunity to explore different routes to a more humane working environment, no matter where we work and may give us courage to take action.

Share something you have overcome or a success story with us. I consider learning to ski the biggest accomplishment of my life, although at best I’m an advanced intermediate skier. No moguls for me, thank you! So why? Because skiing scared the living daylights out of me. I used to literally cry at the top of the slope because I was so afraid to go down. But I wanted to learn. So, one little step at a time I did. For me, skiing represents doing something that scares you because it’s important enough to work through that fear. It’s the kind of risktaking I love my characters to do!

What does thriving mean to you?

Thriving means being at peace with myself. It means living within my values in a way that inner conflict is minimized. Thriving also means challenging myself: doing new things, learning new skills or knowledge. Growth. To thrive, we must grow… and I love to grow. It keeps life interesting.

What tip or piece of advice can you share with our readers today to empower them to SHINE?

Take a risk! A small one… or a big one. If you always stay in your comfort zone, you won’t grow. You are either growing or shrinking. Take the risk to keep growing.

Please share one or two quotes that you find impactful. These quotes can be from you or from someone else as long as they are powerful and moving! "Do one thing every day that scares you."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

- Robert Frost

Any final thought, share, or idea that you would like to share with our readers today? My characters often take the road less travelled, and I wish that for you.

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Becky Moller, author of Undone, Unafraid: Evolving through Trauma, Betrayal, Femininity

and Faith

Next on our author’s spotlight is Becky Moller, author of Undone, Unafraid: Evolving through Trauma, Betrayal, Femininity and Faith!

Becky Moller is an author, mindfulness teacher, and creator of the Undone framework, a long-term path of mindful, embodied healing that helps people restore clarity, compassion, and connection in their relationships and lives.

Share something about you/your organization, mission and purpose. I guide people through a presence-based path of inner healing that restores connection to themselves, their relationships, and their personal sense of spirituality. Through Undone Academy and our retreats, I teach traumainformed mindfulness and embodied practices that help people move through pain, shift long-held patterns, and live with more clarity and compassion. My mission is to make healing a gentle, human, long-term path one that supports people in becoming more whole, honest, and alive.

Share with us the title of your Book and a short 1-3 sentence description of your Book:

Undone, Unafraid is a memoir of healing, awakening, and reclaiming inner authority after trauma and loss. Through raw honesty and embodied insight,

I share my journey of unraveling old identities and learning to live from presence, compassion, and truth. It offers readers both hope and a roadmap for rebuilding trust in themselves.

What inspired you to write your book?

After moving through my own trauma, I began working with others in the trauma space and couldn’t look away from the pain of our shared experiences. I knew my journey could help others find their way and know they are not alone.

Describe something our readers today can look forward to discovering in your book.

People can look forward to discovering that they are not alone; that so many of their wounds, inner dialogues, and secret hurts are part of a shared humanity, and there is a way through that can potentially expand you into a deeper, wiser, more beautiful and empowered person that you ever thought you’d be.

What are 1-3 tips you can give our readers to help them step forward in their life powerfully?

Honor your heart above all else: never apologize for taking time, energy or resources to cultivate your inner life, which is your most powerful resource. Connect yourself to communities, frameworks, and mentors who are living the transformation you seek. This is the single greatest factor in creating long-term change.

Start by taking ownership of just this moment: you’ve got to learn how to get present with what’s right here to find your way out there.

Share something you are passionate about:

I am passionate about the power of presence and every human being’s capacity for true soul-level change with the right tools (they’re all already here inside of you!)

What are some ways you are helping to bring this forward in the world? My book Undone, Unafraid is a roadmap for this kind of living transformation from rock bottom to awakened healing. I also run a year-round mindfulness program to support the same path as well as annual retreats.

Share something you have overcome or a success story with us. In my book, I share a lot of things that I’ve overcome, including an eating disorder as well as betrayal in my marriage, but I would say that currently I’m working with overcoming the sense of abandonment in losing community and relationship when you evolve and change out of the old norms that once connected you. I see this as another painful aspect of the whole journey of growth, evolution, and healing. There’s always something to practice with!

What does thriving mean to you?

To me, thriving means growing; feeling both challenge and purpose in whatever you’re moving through at the time. It’s much less about your specific circumstances and much more about the sense of “I’m evolving and growing through this experience…and I feel so alive!”

What tip or piece of advice can you share with our reader today to empower them to SHINE?

Learn how to love yourself. Nothing will make you shine more than genuine, authentic, deep self-LOVE and this is a spiritual practice in itself! In my experience, this kind of self-LOVE is the natural result of dedicated mindfulness practice.

Please share one or two quotes that you find impactful. These quotes can be from you or from someone else as long as they are powerful and moving!

“Everything you are looking for is right already here within you, exactly as you are.” -Becky Moller, A Course in Mindful Living from Undone Academy, p18

And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is what’s important.” -Iain Thomas

Any final thought, share, or idea that you would like to share with our readers today?

Just that life is here FOR you…it’s an ever-present invitation to wake up and step more fully into the depth of who you truly are and what you have to uniquely offer the world. Whatever it is you’re moving through, meet it as though it is the exact teacher you’ve been hoping for. Treat every moment with that kind of sacred respect and not a single moment will go to waste! You can do this you are supported!

POWER FULL PURPOSE FROM A STORYTELLER’S PERSPECTIVE

BY: SHERRY LYNN CAMPBELL

The beginning of a story is, for some, the most difficult thing to write or create. Here we all are, now, together at the beginning of a new year - and yet for most of us we start our new years by looking behind ourselves and asking, “What did I, we, accomplish last year?”

There is truth and power in knowing where you have been to help you to move forward and plan for your new year. But instead of resolutions, I’d like to suggest a trend, which has been gaining steam through these past years, going forward.

The trend of “pick a new year theme, focus word, or phrase,” might resonate with many of you. I know it has and does with me. But remember, a writer loves words. Why I like this trend, though, is bigger than that. It is because I can use that one word, phrase or theme in all aspects of my life - personal, business, mental, physical, spiritual, and relationships, etc.

One year, I chose the word Explore. Another year, I chose the word Listen. And, still another year, I chose the word Expand.

What I’ve noticed is that whichever word I am focusing on, that word starts popping up in my world like magic everywhere. The Law of Synchronicity? I don’t know, but it makes me smile.

What I do know is that your one word, or phrase or theme will be yours, to share or keep to yourself.

For 2025, my word chosen was Health. Now, I know that sounds rather broad. But I didn’t just want to focus on physical health. I wanted to focus on mental, spiritual, relationship as well as purposeful health.

I also found that it gave me courage to stretch in other areas of my life. Here’s where the Law of Synchronicity came into play. I have a always loved to write stories and dreamed of being a novelist. I had already published three children’s books, which many in my life knew about. So it should not have surprised me that while I was having a yearly doctor appointment, my doctor asked if I was still writing. I told her I had actually just finished my first novel, but hadn’t found a publisher yet. She said she could help with that, and offered to introduce me to Rebecca Hall Gruyter at YourPurposeDrivenPractice. Of course, I was thrilled with this offer, and to make a long story shorter, I had a publisher!

And now, I feel the healthiest I have ever felt because I truly stepped into who I am.

As I reflect on the year of 2025, I have significantly improved my health in all the areas I had hoped to, and overachieved in others. This is the power of a choosing a guiding word, or theme, or phrase over a resolution, in my opinion.

I will share the word I have chosen for 2026 with you. It is WONDER. I think this word has been in my vocabulary, and heart, for the whole of my life. And now, because I have entered into a new space for my self professionally and personally, Wonder is the only word that seems big enough to allow this space to continue to unfold. Like the characters in my recently released first novel, The Storyteller’s Quilt: Beginnings Are Boundless, I am now at my “somewhere,” but I know it’s not my final destination. I don’t know what wonder awaits me on this journey, I only know I am willing to join the journey by taking risks, staying curious and leaning into all that is before me with courage. And so I go with my purpose of discovery into this new, and welcome, unknown.

Enjoy your journey of personal self-discovery into the new year.

Wonder Awaits, Cherish Now, Sherry Lynn Campbell, Novelist, Children’s Book Author and Storyteller

You can follow me at my website: WonderEddy.com

Sherry Lynn Campbell is a novelist, storyteller and children’s book author as well as a life-long reader. She enjoys all yarn crafts, including crochet, knitting, embroidery and needlepoint. Since retiring from teaching, Sherry is following “her own inner child” to explore and write new stories for a wider audience. The Storyteller’s Quilt is her first book in the upcoming young adult or young-at-heart trilogy of the Storyteller’s journey.

Rebecca and her team made my launch a memorable and exciting experience. I was nervous, uncertain, and honestly… would have probably quietly published my book had I not connected with this powerhouse team. I am so grateful for their knowledge, generosity, and support at every turn. Not only did my book achieve every goal we set and then some, the process was fun! If you have taken the time to write a book, it deserves to be widely received. Rebecca and her team are the experts, and they are genuinely invested in your success. I couldn’t have done it without them.

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As we welcome a new year, these pages offer encouragement, clarity, and gentle reminders to help you begin this next chapter with intention. This is a season of fresh starts, renewed purpose, and meaningful momentum, a time to realign your heart with what matters most.

Here are a few reflections to support you as you step into the year ahead. Find a quiet space, breathe deeply, open your journal, and let these questions guide you toward a more grounded and purposeful beginning:

✨ Which message in this edition sparked something meaningful for you?

�� What intention do you want to carry into this new year?

✨ Where can you slow down and make space for what truly matters?

�� How might you use your gifts in a way that feels aligned and wholehearted?

✨ What recent moment reminded you that you’re moving in the right direction?

�� What small, purposeful step can you take this week that brings you closer to your vision?

✨ Who can you appreciate or encourage as we enter this new season together?

May the start of this year bring you clarity, strength, and inspiration. May your days unfold with purpose, your choices feel aligned, and your journey reflect the powerful, intentional life you’re creating.

From all of us at the RHG Media Team, we’re wishing you a meaningful and purpose-filled new year.

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1. "Do one thing every day that scares you."

a. Brené Brown

b. C.S. Lewis

c. Jim Rohn

d. Eleanor Roosevelt

2. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

a. Martin L. King, Jr.

b. Richard Rohr

c. Frederick Buechner

d. Thomas Merton

3. “A boundary is something you tell someone you will do, and it requires the other person to do nothing.”

a. Albert Camus

b. Henry David Thoreau

c. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

d. Dr. Becky Kennedy

4. “True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

a. Rebecca Campbell

b. Donna Ashworth

c. Helen Keller

d. Josiyah Martin

5. “The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and purposefully.”

a. Albert Einstein

b. Charles Dickens

c. Mark Twain

d. John Grisham

Answers on page 51

2026: A Year of Possibility, Presence, and the Power of Your Soul Story

As we step toward the horizon of 2026, there is a subtle hum in the air a sense of quiet anticipation, an invitation to lift our gaze beyond what has been and toward what is yearning to emerge. Possibility doesn’t always arrive with fireworks or grand announcements. More often, it whispers. It nudges. It brushes your shoulder like a familiar companion reminding you that you are still becoming, still unfolding, still capable of surprising yourself.

If 2025 has been a year of transition, clearing, or realignment for you, then 2026 arrives as a spacious field of potential ready for seeds of intention, creativity, relationships, and healing to take root in unexpected ways.

The question is not What will 2026 bring?

The question is: Who are you ready to become within it?

The Sacred Threshold: Stepping Into a New Cycle

ry new year opens a doorway, but ain years hold a deeper resonance. 6 feels like one of those threshold rs where the inner and outer lds begin to align in previously een ways. You may find that the ices you make in early 2026 carry her than you imagined. Small steps ome foundational shifts. Quiet mitments blossom into life-giving mentum.

This is a year where your inner knowing becomes your truest compass.

The world is hungry for grounded, heart-led, soul-filled voices—voices with lived experience, voices shaped by wisdom and weathered storms, voices that aren’t interested in perfection but in presence. It is a year where authenticity becomes the new abundance, where depth matters more than display, and where the courage to express your truth becomes a catalyst for connection and transformation.

In 2026, you are not simply entering a new chapter. You are entering a new level of yourself.

Possibility Lives in the Questions You Are Willing to Ask - Possibility begins long before action. It begins in curiosity.

2026 invites you to sit with powerful—and powerfully simple—questions: What desires have been quietly waiting for me to notice them? Where have I been shrinking that my soul is ready to expand? What story is asking to be written, spoken, or lived?

The most extraordinary years often begin with tender questions—not sweeping declarations. When you allow yourself the grace to wonder, you invite synchronicity, guidance, and unforeseen opportunity. Curiosity opens doors that force cannot.

This year asks you to make room for something more… more aligned, more joyful, more expressive, more you.

Reclaiming Your Voice in 2026 - Your voice is not simply what you speak or write. Your voice is the energetic signature of your truth. 2026 is a year for reclaiming, refining, and revealing that voice in new ways—through writing, storytelling, teaching, relationship, or the everyday choices that say, This is who I am now.

For years, you may have played roles, fulfilled responsibilities, or carried stories that no longer fit. The coming year encourages you to lay down what has grown heavy and embrace what feels honest, even if it is unfamiliar.

This is the year to:

Say the thing you’ve been afraid to say.

Write the story you’ve been circling around.

Share the part of your truth that carries medicine for others.

Let your wisdom be visible.

When you choose to express from the heart—without apology, without shrinking— you create space for others to do the same. This is how healing ripples outward. This is how communities shift. This is how legacies are formed.

Meeting Synchronicity With an Open Heart - One of the gifts of 2026 will be the way synchronicity becomes more precise. You may experience more “chance” encounters, repeated messages, intuitive nudges, or moments of unexpected alignment.

These moments are not random—they are reassurance.

Synchronicity reminds you that your path is supported, that unseen forces are collaborating on your behalf, and that you are never navigating transformation alone. The more you pay attention, the more these signs multiply.

Look for:

People who show up right when you need them. Opportunities that connect perfectly with your gifts. Invitations that feel like they were written specifically for you. Challenges that guide you toward clarity or boundaries.

Synchronicity speaks fluently when you are willing to listen. And in 2026, it will be speaking loudly.

2026 is a Year of Creative Expansion - Creativity will be a defining theme—whether you identify as an artist or not. Creativity is not limited to the page, canvas, or stage. It is the way you design your days, the conversations you initiate, the boundaries you establish, the dreams you give yourself permission to pursue.

This year urges you to create boldly and gently at the same time.

Boldly—because there are ideas ready to take shape, projects ready to be born, collaborations ready to unfold.

Gently—because creation thrives in permission, not pressure.

You may feel pulled to:

Start or finish writing a book.

Launch a program or offering that has been on your heart.

Partner with other women whose vision aligns with your own.

Redefine your identity as a creator, not merely a doer.

2026 is not asking for hustle. It is asking for flow.

You Are Being Called Into Your Next Becoming - 2026 is not a year to wait for permission. It is a year to claim the permission that has always been yours.

You are being called to:

Step forward without needing certainty. Choose possibility over perfection. Tell the truth your heart has been rehearsing. Honor the wisdom you’ve earned through every season of your life.

Your Soul Story is evolving, and the world needs the next chapter you are ready to write—not because you must, but because something inside you is rising, ready to be known.

This is your year of expansion. Your year of resonance. Your year of coming home to yourself.

Last year paved the way for me stepping on more and bigger stages, publishing the second volume of Written In Her Own Words-Wise Woman Wisdom, taking a welldeserved London vacation with my beloved and cataract surgery on both eyes. When I tell you that I have a brand-new vision for 2026, I’m not being metaphorical!

May 2026 reveal possibilities beyond what you have dreamed and gifts beyond what you have dared to imagine. And may you walk toward them with an open heart, a curious spirit, and the unwavering belief that your story—your sacred, imperfect, shimmering story—has only just begun to bloom.

I’m so excited for the new year and what gifts it will reveal!

Unleash the Writer in YOU!

Mary E. Knippel helps women uncover their dreams and transform life experiences into healing, empowering stories. A three-time breast cancer thriver, she understands how a life journey can shake one's identity, voice, and hope. She supports women in telling their Soul Stories with honesty and heart. Book a free Soul Story Activation Session today.

(Answers to page 45)

1. "Do one thing every day that scares you."

a. Brené Brown

b. C.S. Lewis

c. Jim Rohn

d. Eleanor Roosevelt

2. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

a. Martin L. King, Jr.

b. Richard Rohr

c. Frederick Buechner

d. Thomas Merton

3. “A boundary is something you tell someone you will do, and it requires the other person to do nothing.”

a. Albert Camus

b. Henry David Thoreau

c. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

d. Dr. Becky Kennedy

4. “True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

a. Rebecca Campbell

b. Donna Ashworth

c. Helen Keller

d. Josiyah Martin

5. “The best way to lengthen out our days is to walk steadily and purposefully.”

a. Albert Einstein

b. Charles Dickens

c. Mark Twain

d. John Grisham

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Coming Next Edition:

March invites us to shake off the winter pace and welcome a season filled with movement, color, and new possibilities. Our upcoming issue, Spring Forward, focuses on renewal, growth, and taking meaningful steps toward what’s ahead.

This edition encourages you to rise with the season, lean into fresh momentum, and allow your purpose to unfold in new and energizing ways.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Features that help you reconnect with what brings you energy and joy

• Insightful conversations with authors and leaders stepping boldly into their next chapter

• Highlights of professionals making a difference with intention and heart

• Thought-provoking reflections on embracing change and blooming in your own time

• Stories and launches designed to inspire confidence and forward motion this spring

Save the date for these upcoming book launches:

Jan 28, 2026 - Heartfelt Connections by Dezlee Hancock

Feb 3, 2026 - The Color Constitution by Laurie Hartley-Moore

Feb 10, 2026 - The Last Mile is Always Three by Cathryn Farr

Feb 24, 2026 - Embracing Trust by Karen Ann Bulluck

Mar 10, 2026 - Crushing the Chaos by Allison Williams

Apr 29, 2026 - Horizon of Hope by Dondee Sponseller

Spring Forward ��

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Our next RHG Magazine™ issue arrives in mid-March 2026!

If you’re ready to greet the new season with inspiration and renewed purpose, we’d love to include your voice. Whether you join us as a writer, sponsor, advertiser, or collaborative partner, this is a wonderful moment to share your message and your mission: Rebecca@RHGMediaProductions.com.

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