December Holiday Newsletter

Wishing you a very happy and restorative holidays! We hope you get some quality time with family, friends and/or loved ones. Don’t forget to find a little time for yourself too! It’s a great opportunity to reflect, relax, and recharge.

Maybe take a moment to grab a cup of your favorite warm bevvy and jot a few thoughts down about this past year. If it’s helpful, here are some questions you can explore:

• What have I done well this year?

• How am I feeling as we close the chapter of 2025 (mentally, emotionally, physically)?

• What areas do I want to work on heading into 2026?

• What am I truly passionate about pursuing or what would is my gut telling me to try out?

• What is not serving me?

Whatever comes up, try to meet it with openness, curiosity, and some gentleness. Taking time to reflect is something to be proud of... you’re slowing down and prioritizing yourself. You’re giving your mind a little love!

Announcement... We’re Heading Out on Tour! 🎸🤘

Our annual [North]East Coast tour is coming up fast! Toward the end of January, we’ll be visiting some of our OG bmindful teams and some new teams in our bmindful family. 🤩

We’re fired up and grateful to have this opportunity for a 3rd consecutive year! There’s nothing like the energy of in-person sessions and we look forward to this tour every year. It allows us to build deeper connections with our teams, and more importantly, create safe spaces for them to dig deeper into building a strong foundation as they head into the Spring Season. We’ll obviously be teaching them some mindfulness tools too.

If you’re in the MA, CT, NY, NJ, PA area during the weeks of 1/19 and 1/26 and want to grab a coffee, shoot us an email or text. We’d love to make it happen if time allows!

Mindfulness Tool of the Month

So, we all know that family time can sometimes be a little tricky. And with the holidays around the corner, things can get a bit spicy. Older sister says something that opens an old wound or Dad goes off on a rant about a certain political figure you’re not a fan of.

So, here’s a little tool to help us all not be overly reactive when you notice your internal water start to boil. Our 5 senses (sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch) are all FANTASTIC mindfulness tools. To keep it simple, we are going to use touch.

When you notice a spike in your nervous system or an intense emotion arise in response to something that rubs you the wrong way, rather than immediately respond, bring your awareness to either the sensation of your feet on the ground or your butt on whatever you are sitting on. Try to notice how that point of contact feels: is it soft, hard, cold, warm, textured, etc. If you’re wearing shoes, maybe you wiggle your toes and feel what it’s like in there!

Viola! By the time you’ve investigated your “touch” sense, the conversation may have already pivoted or even better, you may notice that you are in a calm enough headspace to let the trigger go. Or you may realize it wasn’t worth engaging because it was only going to make matters worse (which, let’s be honest, is usually the case).

What We Are Reading 📚

Ethan:

Educational: The Five Things We Cannot Change and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them by David Richo

Bed Time Read: Burn Rate by Alan Dunn

Eric:

Educational: Raise Your Game by Alan Stein Jr. and Jon Sternfeld

Bed Time Read: Twice by Mitch Albom

Julie:

Education: The Wisdom of No Escape by Pema Chödrön

Bed Time Read: Throne of Glass, Kingdom of Ash, by Sarah J. Maas

Poem of the Month

Always we hope someone else has the answer,

some other place will be better,

some other time it will all turn out.

This is it; no one else has the answer,

no other place will be better,

and it has already turned out.

At the center of your being,

you have the answer;

you know who you are

and you know what you want.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing.

Nor to peer from a window.

Rather abide at the center of your being;

for the more you leave it, the less you learn.

Search your heart and see the way to do is to be.

- Lao-Tzu

As you reflect on this past year, if you find yourself with any questions or thoughts you’d like to explore further, feel free to sign up for a free 30-minute chat with any of our coaches. We’d be happy to dig deeper with you and share tools that may help. 🙂

Here's the link to schedule a call with Ethan, Julie or Eric.

Sending much love, compassion and presence! Happy holidays! ❤️

- Eric, Julie and Ethan

be here. be now. bmindful.™