Happy New Year: From Doing to Being — A Gentle Invitation for 2026
As we step into a new year, I want to pause for a moment and wish you a Happy New Year.
For many people, 2025 was a big year. A year full of movement, change, loss, lessons, and deep inner shifts.
For some, it was expansive and joyful. For others, it carried grief, loss, uncertainty, and profound moments of humbling truths.
For many of us, it was both.
When Life Refines Us
Last year brought powerful lessons around the polarity between grief and joy, how closely they sit together, how one can crack us open to the other.
There were moments that invited deep reflection around meaning, purpose, and legacy. Those quiet (and sometimes confronting) reminders that we are not here forever… and that the way we live, love, and show up everyday matters.
When those reality checks come, they often ask us important questions:
How am I really living my life?
Who am I really?
What legacy am I leaving behind?
These questions don’t come to pressure us. They come to refine us.
The Power of Self-Reflection
As the year came to a close, I found myself doing what I often do at the end of a year… self- reflecting.
What qualities do I want to bring forward into the next chapter of my life?
What fills me with love, excitement and passion?
And… what parts are no longer meant to come with me?
One of the strongest themes that came through during this reflection was community.
Community in all its forms, family, chosen family, soul family, kindred spirits. The people who see us, hold us, walk beside us, and remind us who we are when life gets loud.
We are not meant to do this alone.
The Sacred Pause Between Years
That quiet space between Christmas and New Year offered something precious. Instead of pushing, planning, or striving, I consciously chose to practice not doing.
I rested. I slowed. I listened. I allowed my nervous system, body, and mind to truly decompress.
It became very clear just how much had been processed over the year, and how necessary deep rest is, not as a luxury, but as a requirement for healing, clarity, and integration.
This space reminded me of something important that I want to gently pass on to you: We are human beings, not human doings.
An Invitation Into Being
As we move into 2026, I invite you into a softer way of being. Here are a few gentle practices you can weave into your days:
Observe your mindset and self-talk
Notice how you speak to yourself. Awareness is the first step to change.Spend more time in nature
Nature regulates the nervous system without effort. Let it do the work.Breathe consciously and deeply
When you notice your breath, slow it down. Deep, grounding breaths tell your body it is safe.Listen to your body’s messages
Fatigue, tension, emotions, & physical symptoms, they are not problems to avoid or fix, but messages to decode.
Your body holds immense wisdom. The more we learn to listen, the more supported and guided we feel.
You Don’t Have to Do This Alone
If you feel unsure about what your body is asking for…
If you feel disconnected, overwhelmed, or exhausted…
If you sense there is something deeper unfolding within you…
Please know you are not broken, and you are not behind. We are all learning and growing at our own pace.
Supporting people to understand their body, calm their nervous system, reconnect to themselves, and return to a state of balance is my passion. It’s what I love. It’s what gets me up in the morning.
And I am always here to walk alongside you.
May this new year bring you more presence than pressure. More surrender and trust. More listening & connecting and perhaps on some level… less doing.
Thank you for being part of this beautiful community. I’m so grateful to be walking this path with you.
With love and abundant blessings,
Sheryl