How to Perform A Life Audit
Dear Friend,
As the year comes to a close, many women feel pressure to reflect quickly and move on, set goals, choose a word, map the next season. But what if the most faithful thing you could do before stepping into the new year is slow down? A life audit invites you to look at your life with compassion, not criticism. To notice what has been heavy, what has been holy, and what no longer belongs in the next season God is unfolding.
A life audit isn’t about judgment or fixing yourself. It’s about honest reflection and inviting God into the places that need clarity, healing, or rest before you step into what’s next.
In this season of The Rested Woman Podcast, we’ve been talking about slowing down, listening inward, and discerning what the Lord is truly asking of us. A life audit is one of the most loving ways to do just that.
What Is a Life Audit?
A life audit is a prayerful assessment of your life as it currently stands, not how it looks on the outside, but how it feels on the inside.
It asks questions like:
What is life-giving right now?
What feels heavy, draining, or misaligned?
Where am I operating out of obligation instead of obedience?
Where is God inviting me to rest, release, or realign?
This isn’t about creating a perfect plan. It’s about creating space for truth.
Why Do a Life Audit Before the New Year?
Because clarity comes before strategy. So often, we set goals without acknowledging burnout, grief, transition, or growth that happened in the previous year. We carry old expectations into a new season and wonder why we feel stuck or tired by February.
A life audit allows you to:
Close the year with intention
Honor what the year required of you
Identify patterns you don’t want to repeat
Step into the new year lighter, not rushed
Biblically, we see this rhythm of reflection again and again, Jesus withdrawing to pray, to assess, to realign with the Father before moving forward. Rest and reflection are not rewards; they are requirements.
How to Do a Gentle Life Audit
You don’t need a full day or a perfect setup. You just need honesty, a journal, and openness to God’s leading. Here are a few areas to reflect on:
1. Spiritual Life
How is your connection with God right now?
Does it feel intimate, distant, forced, or fluid?
Where do you sense God inviting you deeper?
2. Emotional & Mental Health
What emotions have dominated this year?
What have you been carrying that no one sees?
Where do you need more support, boundaries, or grace?
3. Relationships
Which relationships feel nourishing?
Which feel draining or one-sided?
Are there conversations you’ve been avoiding?
4. Work & Calling
Does your work align with the season you’re in?
Are you striving, or are you stewarding?
What needs to shift to feel more sustainable?
5. Rest & Capacity
Are you rested, or just pushing through?
What steals your joy and drains you?
What restores you?
As you reflect, invite God into the process. Ask Him to reveal what you can release and what you’re meant to carry forward.
Rest doesn’t start with a nap or a vacation, it starts with truth.A life audit is an act of courage. It says, “I’m willing to see my life clearly so I can live it faithfully.” It creates room for God to do something new without you dragging the weight of the old.
If this resonates with you, I dive deeper into this conversation on The Rested Woman Podcast, where we talk about discernment, alignment, and entering the new year from a place of rest, not exhaustion.
You don’t need to become someone new next year. You just need to become more aligned with who God is already shaping you to be.
Let’s pause. Reflect. And move forward together.