What I’m Leaving Behind and What I’m Carrying Forward

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Reset and restart, that’s the motto for 2026.

2025 has been both kind and cruel, soft and sharp, gentle and jarring all at once.

I gave birth to my first son this year, a moment that filled me with more joy than I ever knew was possible. I didn’t know my heart could hold that much emotion and love.

2025 became my year to live fully in my motherhood era, to learn how to be selfless, strong, tender, and stretched. I was suddenly responsible for another human being, and as beautiful as that was, it was also terrifying.

For four uninterrupted months, I had the privilege of being immersed in my new chapter as a mother.
And then, the biggest shock of my life arrived without warning.

I was diagnosed with cancer.
Not just any cancer, a rare one.

My son was four months old.
I was getting the hang of being a mum again, healing from a C-section, moving my body, and reconnecting with myself.

And in the blink of an eye, my world turned upside down again.

How was I supposed to embrace motherhood with the weight of a deadly disease sitting on my chest?
How was I meant to go through chemotherapy and still show up as a mother and a wife?
I didn’t think I had it in me.

This was undoubtedly the hardest season of my life.

And so, cancer is something I am leaving behind in 2025.

What I am carrying with me is different:

Healed Fiona.
International Fiona.
Soft Fiona.

The woman I am becoming is magical, gifted, and soft.
She is not afraid of failure.
She is not afraid of being vulnerable.
She is learning to choose herself and her peace gently, intentionally, daily.

Creating The Her Edit in this season was the only thing that felt true to me.
I craved a place where I could be soft, vulnerable, and fully seen at the same time.

It didn’t exist, so I built it, and then I shared it with the world.

2026 is about stepping into the healed, expanded, gentler version of me.
The woman who has survived, transformed, and continues to evolve.

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