Intention Setting for 2026: How to Create Change That Actually Lasts | Ep 392
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
If you achieved ALL of your 2026 goals, how would you feel? How would it change your life? This episode is going to flip everything you think you know about intention setting, and why it matters.
Instead of focusing on rigid goals or relying on willpower, Erin explains how aligning your 2026 intentions with who you want to become can naturally shape your choices around food, health, and daily habits.
It’s normal for discomfort, uncertainty, and old urges to creep in when you’re on the cusp of making big changes, but this is evidence that it’s working! You’ll also learn all about EFT (or tapping) as a tool to calm the nervous system, plus Erin’s most supportive frameworks you can return to long after the new year energy fades.
In this episode:
- Why your brain hunts for evidence that your “I am…” story is true, and how that keeps recreating the same food patterns
- The fork in the road moment that makes people quit in week two, and why feeling confused can mean the change is working
- How to use future-self decision making so you stop waiting to feel ready before you act
- The reason analytical, detail-focused people can get stuck in nutrition change, and how to be a needle-mover
- A guided EFT tapping approach to loosen “I can’t” beliefs and replace them with capability, worthiness, and trust
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | As we talk about all of this, setting goals, changing the identity to like match up with the goal, |
| 0:07.4 | there might be some stuff bubbling up to the surface that says, I actually don't think I can do this. |
| 0:14.0 | Or there's some beliefs that say, yeah, but, yeah, but maybe they can do it, but not me because X, Y, Z. And so what I'm going to ask you to do, |
| 0:25.4 | and it's like a little bit of a vulnerable share, is share the beliefs that are coming up |
| 0:32.0 | that say you actually cannot have this thing. You actually can't change this. You can't achieve this goal. |
| 0:41.2 | You can't achieve this intention. You can't change from old identity into new. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K, because we do things a little |
| 0:50.9 | differently around here. I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, |
| 0:58.0 | creating a new model that I call intuitive functional medicine, where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of your body. |
| 1:06.0 | This is where science meets self-trust. Your body already knows how to heal and this show is going to show you how. |
| 1:13.1 | If you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health, be sure to follow and share with |
| 1:17.1 | a friend because you never know whose life you might change. Hello and happy 2026, everybody. |
| 1:25.1 | So for those of you guys who are into numerology, you probably already know this, but |
| 1:30.0 | 2025 was a nine year in 26 is a one year. |
| 1:34.8 | 2025, a nine year, is really all about or was really all about endings, completion, closure, |
| 1:42.1 | release, tying up loose ends, letting go of people, beliefs, and habits |
| 1:47.2 | that no longer serve you, healing past wounds, and really preparing for change, really preparing |
| 1:53.8 | for the year ahead, which is a one year, which is what 2026 is, it's all about new beginnings, |
| 2:00.2 | fresh starts, new potentials, new paths, taking initiative |
| 2:03.8 | on big dreams, new opportunities, and really stepping into your true authentic self. So I am super |
| 2:11.2 | pumped about 2026, definitely spent 2025 preparing for this. I talked about some of the whys on the episode that we released |
| 2:20.9 | on Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving week. How this looked for TFN was re-scoping our team. It was |
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