Reflecting on 2024
Wow, 2024.
Since 2019, each year has unexpectedly surpassed my expectations—I kept thinking it couldn’t possibly get better. And then—boom—2024 happened.
The headline for 2024: The birth of “Mrs. Aerin Vohra.”
💍 Engaged (#deathdousnopart)
👶 Two rounds of IVF
🎂 Celebrated my 40th birthday over a long weekend
👰🏻 Got married during a week-long celebration in Udaipur, India (Humblebrag: it really was the most fun, loving, and spectacular wedding I’ve ever attended.)
We also traveled—both worldly and out-worldly.
✈️ 🇰🇷🇬🇧🇮🇳 🇵🇭 🇩🇪 🗽
✈️ 🎉 Solar Eclipse, Garbicz (complete with a flat tire), Room Service, Bestival.
So how’s married life so far? 11/10! 💗
Each of these experiences revealed our strength as a team. We even came up with a term to describe how unbelievably lucky we feel to have found each other: cosmic glitch. I never thought it was possible to feel so profoundly loved.
I also feel invincible, particularly in the work I do: exploring the edges of consciousness and leaning into the mystery to become whole. As I fly high as a kite 🪁, Rahul holds down the string so I can return home. We also fly together to soar further—anchoring one another with unwavering support and love.
Great, how about work? I did all of these while…
👩🏫 Teach full-time at the Hoffman Process
👩🔬 Facilitate a YPO forum
📚 Start a 3-year Master’s program in integrative psychology and medicine
Yes, 2024 was phenomenal but it wasn’t without its lowlights:
🥀deeply disappointed around the election in the U.S., realizing many people do not seem to want to change clinging to deeply ingrained “-isms.”
😟Confronted my relationship with anxiety.
🏥Faced post-surgery illness after IVF.
What I learned in 2024…
🫂Friends. I’m so grateful for my chosen family, my friends. Without them, 2024 would not have been the same. Thank you and I love you.
🕊️Normalization is powerful. Normalization helps me understand that my emotions, reactions, or experiences are common and valid, especially during times of stress. Dealing with the wedding planning stress and some tough moments with Rahul, this practice helps me to stop the negative shame spiral and better regulate my nervous system so I can come back to the present.
🫶Both can be true. Marrying into an Indian family had me wonder what “boundaries” mean and what “duties” or “obligations” children have towards their parents in different cultures. I’m learning to sit in the paradox accepting multiple perspectives to be true.
🪬Grounded in my feminine. My marriage is a playground to practice the divine feminine. As someone who’s independent and planning-oriented, I can easily take charge, unconsciously stepping into my masculine. This then unintentionally pushes Rahul. This dynamic creates an imbalance that sometimes leads to resentment. So I listen, flow, and nurture, trusting and embracing my divine femininity.
🌬️Creation over consumption. Each ocean wave is a divine expression of the ocean. So what is my expression in this life? What do I want to create? For example, even for festivals, attending them as a creator, not a consumer, is more fun and fulfilling as I have wider and deeper experiences. So I want to create more in 2025 in visual art, writing, and theater.
What do I set out to manifest in 2025?
If 2024 felt like a divine explosion, 2025 is a year of settling.
I am settling into my roles as:
🏡 Mrs. Vohra—a wife and (hopefully) a mother.
👩🏻🎓 A lifelong student of medicine, psychology, and theater. In this, here are key themes I want to explore:
Listening
Trust
Safety
Boundaries
Seeing it clearly
🎭 A creator of transformative experiences—through workshops and retreats, including launching my transpersonal retreat. I also aim to express my creativity through art and writing (e.g., wedding album, journey log, and monthly personal essays).
As I am wrapping up my reflection, I feel deeply grateful for the peace and love I get to experience in my life. At the same time, I am also keenly aware of all the suffering in the world. I believe that by continuing the work I do, I can do my part and contribute to the healing of the world—starting with myself and the people I work with. It is my heartfelt wish that we all are with deeper peace, fulfilling relationships, and good health in the year ahead.
