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My Personal 2024 Beatfest

My year in tunes

Colleen Millsteed
7 min readDec 2, 2024
Chris Isaak on concert.
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Growth!

That’s the word that comes to mind when I think back on my place in the year 2024.

Growth in a huge way, more so than any other year in the last decade.

2024 has been an extremely uncomfortable, eye-opening, anxiety inducing, learning curve that has produced incredible fear and tested my motto of ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’ almost to breaking point.

But now, looking back, I’m immensely grateful for the trials, tribulations and unbelievable challenges I faced and the woman it has forced me to become.

Please join me on my crazy ride through 2024.

JANUARY

A rough month as I come to accept the estrangement of a precious family member as irreparable, while realising it was time to pick up the pieces and let them go.

As difficult as the decision was to make, I knew I had to walk away to save myself. To grieve fully and sit within the patience of acceptance, knowing that once I did so, there would be no returning.

Many tears were shed throughout the month of January and scar tissue now bolsters my heart protectively.

A heartbreaking month!

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Colleen Millsteed
Colleen Millsteed

Written by Colleen Millsteed

Top Writer in Poetry. I’m a Finance Manager with a love of both numbers and words.

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