Jan 14, 2026
Written by Simone Usselman-Tod
January carries a quiet invitation, one that is easy to miss if we are rushing to feel “ready.”
There is often an unspoken pressure to feel clear, energized, and eager to move forward. And yet, like the land in mid-winter, many of us are still integrating what we released at the end of the year. I see this as wisdom rather than a problem.
In nature, growth doesn’t begin with movement. It begins beneath the surface with rest, repair, and the slow rebuilding of strength. Roots deepen long before any change seems to happen, and new life breaks through the soil.
Jan 1, 2026
Written by Simone Usselman-Tod.
I completed my 2026 vision board just before the New Year. Not because I was rushing or trying to get ahead, but because it felt aligned. I wanted to enter this new cycle already connected to how I want the year to feel, not just what I want to accomplish.
As I step into 2026, my vision is simple, clear, and deeply intentional: freedom, fun, and fantastic health. These aren’t goals I’m chasing. They are qualities I am choosing to orient my days around – how I want to live, work, move, and show up.
Today is January 1, 2026, the first day of the first month of a 1 year cycle. That alone makes it a natural reset point. A moment to pause. To slow down. To listen inward before moving forward.
From both experience and neuroscience, I know this matters. We don’t create meaningful change from pressure, urgency, or overwhelm. We create it from steadiness. When our nervous systems are regulated and our emotions are grounded, clarity rises naturally. Intuition becomes easier to hear. Decisions feel less forced. The next step feels lighter.
Dec 22, 2025
Written by Francine Houston
The end of autumn and the beginning of winter is upon us. This is the time of year, as the trees go dormant, the days get shorter, and the nights are longer, and in the Northern hemisphere, the snow begins to blanket the ground. For many of us, this is a time for reflection: looking at where we’ve been, what we’ve done, and where we would like to go. It is the time of the year that people look toward what they would like to do. Who they would like to become and the resolutions that they are about to make going into 2026…
Dec 4, 2025
Written by Simone Usselman-Tod
As we move into December, there is a powerful energetic shift we can all feel. 2025 was a Snake year and the final 9-year in the numerology cycle has been a year of shedding, simplifying, and releasing what no longer fits. It has asked us to slow down, turn inward, and let go of old identities and emotional responsibilities that have weighed on us for too long.
For many of us, this year felt like a deep internal reset. Old patterns surfaced to be healed. Boundaries strengthened. Clarity emerged in unexpected ways.
This is exactly what a Snake year and a 9-year are designed to do: clear the path!
December: The Threshold Month …
Nov 19, 2025
Written by Alison Bastarache
I took on the challenge of an online university course to learn Spanish. Speed Spanish, twelve lessons in 6 weeks. I have not studied anything academic for over 30 years. In fact, I have never done a university course as I went to college to become a Medical Laboratory Technologist in my 20’s.
I was always a straight A student, that did her homework and handed it in on time. I was very academically successful in high school and college. Languages were never my strength, I was a math and sciences type of gal. So, this course was a challenge to say the least and it brought up a lot of internal introspection. From my depths, came the perfectionism, the fear of failure, that inkling of self-doubt, that little voice that says “what if I am not good enough”. What have I got myself into?…
