Oh my goodness. It's 2026. Here we are. Happy New Year, everyone. Wow. I know we've done so much work,

so many self-care practices over the past weeks around intention setting and leading up to the new year.

And now all of a sudden here we are and it's just like a regular week. I always feel a little bit

shocked by how quickly we enter just regular life after the holidays. We are slowly, slowly

easing our way back to routine. And I know this time of year

is both really inspirational and exciting and we feel motivated to make so many things happen.

And you've set big intentions, I think, if you've been working with me a little bit throughout

December. You've set goals you want to make happen. You've figured

out what you're dreaming of. There's so much to do. We can have that feeling right now of there's

so many things that we have to get done and there are so many new routines we need to incorporate

and we have rules to follow and habits to not return to. And it can get really rigid this time of

year. We know there is no other time of

year where you see more new gym memberships or people subscribing to new ideas and new plans

for changing their lives. And of course, I love intention setting and I love doing that sacred work

of figuring out where we want to go in life.

But there is something about that new year, new me energy that I find really exhausting and really

tiring. And I don't really want to be told that I'm not good enough. And there's no other week

of the year that I am told that more times in a day than the first

week of January. Everywhere we look all across social media and the news and even in conversation,

society is telling us right now that we need to be improved. We need to be better. We need to look

different and act different and be thinner and be fitter and change who we are

at our core. New Year, New Me, right? And I really want to counter that. I want to call bullshit on that.

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