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This Year's Word with Courtney Symes

This Year's Word with Courtney Symes

By: Courtney Symes
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Imagine if a single word could change your life. This was a theory Courtney wanted to test a few years ago when, instead of setting New Year’s resolutions, she selected a Word of the Year to live her life by. Join Courtney as she shares her Word of the Year experiences with you in this podcast series.Copyright 2021 All rights reserved. Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success
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  • Becoming through it: resilience in growth, goals, and identity
    Apr 20 2026

    Autumn has a very particular feeling, doesn’t it?

    The trees are bare. The landscape feels quieter… simpler. There’s less colour, less movement, less noise.

    At first glance, it can almost feel like something has been lost.

    But if you look a little closer… you begin to realise that nothing essential is gone.

    Beneath the surface, life is still present. The roots are still strong. The tree is not dying — it is conserving, adapting, preparing.

    And in many ways, this is what growth looks like for us too.

    Not always vibrant. Not always visible. Not always easy to understand while we’re in it.

    But deeply, quietly transformative.

    Over the past few episodes, we’ve been exploring resilience — not as something loud or forceful, but as something steady, grounded, and deeply human.

    We’ve talked about resilience in our inner world… In our relationships… In the way we move through uncertainty.

    And today, as we arrive at this final episode in the series, I want to explore something a little deeper… a little quieter.

    Resilience in who we are becoming.

    Because resilience doesn’t just help us get through life. It shapes us. It refines us. It changes us.

    And often… it changes us in ways we never expected.

    If the content of today’s episode has piqued your interest, I have something very special for you. I have created 30 Journal Prompts, similar to the ones mentioned throughout this episode on resilience – that’s one life-changing prompt for you to work on every day over the next month!

    Just imagine how much growth you can unlock over the next 30 days if you keep the momentum going and commit to answering one prompt a day.

    All you need to do to get these thought-provoking prompts is leave a positive rating and review for this podcast, take a screenshot of your review and email it to: courtney@alittlepinkbook.com and I’ll email you the prompts!

    Check out my courses: Magical Mornings and Joyful Journaling Journey, as well as my book, A Year of Love: Finding peace one day at a time.

    Grab your FREE How to Ask Someone if They're Ok Conversation Starters and FREE Journaling Guide with 100+ prompts here.

    Read more on my blog, or connect with me on Facebook.

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    16 mins
  • Weathering change — resilience in relationships and uncertainty
    Apr 13 2026

    One place where our resilience is often tested the most…is in our relationships.

    Because if there’s one place in life where things don’t stay predictable… it’s here.

    Relationships shift. People change. Expectations evolve. And emotions… well, they move like weather.

    And just like the autumn season we’re sitting in right now, those changes can feel subtle one moment… and quite strong the next.

    You might have a warm, easy conversation in the afternoon… and then find yourself navigating tension or misunderstanding by the evening.

    And so the question becomes: how do we stay steady… when everything around us feels like it’s moving?

    If the content of today’s episode has piqued your interest, I have something very special for you. I have created 30 Journal Prompts, similar to the ones mentioned throughout this episode on resilience – that’s one life-changing prompt for you to work on every day over the next month!

    Just imagine how much growth you can unlock over the next 30 days if you keep the momentum going and commit to answering one prompt a day.

    All you need to do to get these thought-provoking prompts is leave a positive rating and review for this podcast, take a screenshot of your review and email it to: courtney@alittlepinkbook.com and I’ll email you the prompts!

    Check out my courses: Magical Mornings and Joyful Journaling Journey, as well as my book, A Year of Love: Finding peace one day at a time.

    Grab your FREE How to Ask Someone if They're Ok Conversation Starters and FREE Journaling Guide with 100+ prompts here.

    Read more on my blog, or connect with me on Facebook.

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    15 mins
  • The work no one sees – and why it matters
    Apr 6 2026

    Resilience is not built in the moments that everyone sees. It’s not built in the breakthrough, the milestone, or the big visible win.

    Resilience is built in the quiet. In the repetition. In the ordinary, often unnoticed moments of your life.

    And I think this is one of the most important — and often overlooked — parts of resilience.

    Over the last episode, we began to gently reframe what resilience really means — not as hardness, not as pushing through, but as flexibility. As responsiveness. As the quiet strength that allows you to bend without breaking.

    In this episode, I want to take that conversation a little deeper.

    Last episode was about softening the surface… This episode is about strengthening what sits beneath it.

    If the content of today’s episode has piqued your interest, I have something very special for you. I have created 30 Journal Prompts, similar to the ones mentioned throughout this episode on resilience – that’s one life-changing prompt for you to work on every day over the next month!

    Just imagine how much growth you can unlock over the next 30 days if you keep the momentum going and commit to answering one prompt a day.

    All you need to do to get these thought-provoking prompts is leave a positive rating and review for this podcast, take a screenshot of your review and email it to: courtney@alittlepinkbook.com and I’ll email you the prompts!

    Check out my courses: Magical Mornings and Joyful Journaling Journey, as well as my book, A Year of Love: Finding peace one day at a time.

    Grab your FREE How to Ask Someone if They're Ok Conversation Starters and FREE Journaling Guide with 100+ prompts here.

    Read more on my blog, or connect with me on Facebook.

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    17 mins
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