Tori Uncensored

It’s my birthday, and if you know me, you know I don’t just take the day, I take the week 🙂. Little celebrations with the people who hold me steady: a cheeky Chinese with the family, a cinema trip to enjoy new stories together, and a quiet day to decorate the house and welcome the festive season.

But this year, it’s not just about candles and cake. It’s about reflection, acknowledgement, and realignment.

At the start of the year, I launched Tori Uncensored, a space I’d dreamed about for a long time. A place to write honestly, to reflect out loud, to share the messy, beautiful, in-progress parts of life. I built two hubs: one for emotional resilience, one for intentional planning. And for a while, I was publishing posts every few days, ideas flowing with a rhythm that felt like momentum.

Then came the summer, and with it, a spiral. The kind that slows you down and not always gently. I stopped posting. I lost my footing. But I didn’t disappear. I turned inward. I gave myself 100 days to reflect, not to fix, but to feel, to listen, and to recalibrate.

Now, I’m here. Not with a grand plan or a list of resolutions, but with a quiet readiness. A sense that something is shifting again as I enter the next stage of my life. That the spiral wasn’t a detour, it was a necessary pause. Part of the process I needed to go through.

So here’s to the year that was. To launching something that mattered. To showing up, even when it got hard. To the people who took the time to read, who reached out, and who reminded me that my words matter and that they have a place among the thousands out there.

And here’s to what’s next. To a new year of sharing. Of exploring the thoughts that are bubbling up again. Of writing not to perform, but to connect. To make sense. To stay grounded.

I believe in reflection, not as a performance, but as a practice. A way to see where you’ve been, so you can choose where to go.

And today, I’m choosing to keep going. Gently. Honestly. Uncensored!