The question isn't "what are your goals for next year?" It's "what are you still carrying from this one?"

We're approaching the end of another year. And if you're like most people, you're already starting to feel the pressure.

The "New Year, New You" messaging is ramping up. The ads for gym memberships, and organization systems, and self-improvement programs are flooding your feed. Everyone's talking about goals, resolutions, and fresh starts.

But here's what nobody's asking: What are you carrying from this year that you haven't put down yet?

Not in a "let it go and move on" kind of way. Not in a "leave it in 2025" Instagram caption kind of way. In a real, honest, energetic inventory kind of way.

The truth is, you can't start fresh if you're still carrying the weight of everything that happened this year. You can't step into a new frequency if you're still operating from the old one.

Most of us are walking into 2026 with our arms full of stuff we picked up in 2025, 2024, 2023, and honestly, probably way before that.

It's time for an energy audit. Not a vision board. An audit.

What You're Actually Carrying

An energy audit is about getting honest about what you're carrying—energetically, emotionally, mentally, physically—and deciding what deserves to come with you into the next year.

Think of your life as a backpack. What's in it right now? What beliefs? What expectations? What disappointments? What resentments? What stories about who you are and what you're capable of?

Some of that might be worth keeping. Some of it served you once, but doesn't anymore. And some of it was never yours to carry in the first place.

Here's what happens: we pick things up throughout the year without realizing we're carrying them. Someone disappoints us, and we pick up a belief about trust. Something doesn't work out, and we pick up a story about our capacity. We struggle with something, and we pick up shame about not being further along.

And we just keep walking. Keep carrying. Never stopping to ask if we actually want to keep holding this.

Before we know it, we're exhausted. Not from our actual lives. From the weight of everything we've picked up and never put down.

The Four Things We Need to Look At

When I work with people at year-end, I guide them through looking at what they're carrying in four specific areas:

What we're carrying about ourselves. What we're carrying about others. What we're carrying about the year that passed. What we're carrying about what's possible.

What We're Carrying About Ourselves

This is the big one. The beliefs, the stories, the identities we've been living out of, often without even realizing it.

What did you decide about yourself this year based on what happened? What story have you been telling yourself about who you are? What judgment have you been carrying about your body, your emotions, your struggles, your pace?

Get specific. Not "I'm not enough." Where exactly do you believe you're not enough? In relationships? In work? In how you show up for yourself?

The beliefs you're carrying about yourself become the frequency you operate from. And that frequency determines what you can receive, what you can create, what you can become.

If you're carrying "I always mess things up," you're tuned to a frequency of failure. If you're carrying "I should be further along by now," you're tuned to a frequency of lack.

These beliefs aren't just thoughts. They're energetic patterns that shape your entire reality.

What We're Carrying About Others

The resentments. The disappointments. The unmet expectations. The things you wish they'd said or done. The ways they let you down.

But also: the ways they did show up. The support you received. The love you were given. The moments of connection that mattered.

What are you still holding onto about how someone treated you this year? What expectation are you carrying about who someone should be? What grudge are you feeding energy to every time you think about a specific person? And what appreciation have you not fully received?

Carrying resentment keeps you energetically tied to the thing that hurt you. It keeps you in a relationship with the wound instead of with the person or the lesson.

Not fully receiving the good trains your system to skim over love and lock onto pain.

What We're Carrying About the Year That Passed

2025 was... a lot. For everyone. In different ways.

What did this year take from you? What did it give you? What did you learn that you didn't want to learn? What did you survive that you didn't think you could? What became possible that you didn't expect?

This isn't about making it all mean something profound. Sometimes a hard year is just hard. You don't have to turn everything into a lesson.

But you do need to acknowledge what actually happened. The actual reality of what you lived through.

What's still sitting heavy in your system from this year? What closure do you need? And what from this year do you want to carry forward as strength, as wisdom, as proof of your resilience?

What We're Carrying About What's Possible

Most of us don't realize we're carrying beliefs about what's possible that are limiting what we can create.

We're carrying inherited limits. Learned ceilings. Internalized "not for people like me" messages.

What do you believe is possible for you in 2026? Where do you hit a wall in your imagination when you think about what could happen? What do you want but immediately talk yourself out of?

Notice where your mind says "yeah, but..." when you imagine something you want. That "yeah, but" is the belief about what's possible (or not possible) that you're carrying.

"I'd love to have a thriving practice, yeah, but I'm not good at marketing." "I'd love to feel at peace in my body, yeah, but I've always struggled with this."

Those "yeah, buts" are energy blocks. They're the invisible ceiling you keep bumping into.

How to Actually Do the Audit

Set aside real time. Not "I'll think about this while folding laundry." Real, dedicated, uninterrupted time.

Grab a journal or open a document. Create four sections. Then start writing. Stream of consciousness. No editing, no making it pretty, no censoring yourself.

For each section, complete these prompts:

About Myself:

• This year, I decided that I am...
• The story I keep telling myself is...
• What I'm judging myself for is...
• What I haven't forgiven myself for is...
• Is this belief serving me? Is it even true? Do I want to carry it into 2026?

About Others:

• I'm still holding onto...
• I'm disappointed that...
• But I also received...
• I appreciated when...
• What am I ready to release? What am I ready to fully receive?

About This Year:

• This year took...
• This year gave...
• This year showed me I'm capable of...
• What still feels unfinished is...
• What from this year do I want to carry forward as strength?

About What's Possible:

• I want... but I believe...
• The ceiling I keep hitting is...
• If I'm honest, I've given up on...
• What would I reach for if I released this belief?

After you've written it all out, go through each thing and ask: Does this deserve to come with me into 2026?

What Actually Deserves to Come With You

Some beliefs served you once. They kept you safe. They helped you survive. But survival strategies don't always translate into thriving strategies.

Some resentments are valid. You were hurt. But carrying that hurt into next year doesn't hurt them. It only drains you.

Some limits were real at one point. But you're not the same person you were when you accepted those limits.

So what actually deserves to come with you?

The wisdom you earned. The strength you discovered. The boundaries you learned to set. The capacity you built. The love you received. The ways you surprised yourself. That gets to come.

The shame about not being further along? Leave it. The resentment about how someone showed up? Leave it. The belief that you can't have what you want? Leave it.

Not because those things didn't happen or didn't hurt. But because carrying them forward doesn't serve where you're trying to go.

The Ritual of Conscious Release

Once you know what you're releasing, don't just think about letting it go. Actually release it. Energetically. Physically. Ritually.

Write it and burn it. Write everything you're releasing on paper. Read it out loud. Then burn it safely and watch the smoke carry it away.

Move it through your body. Dance it out. Shake it out. Let your body process and release what your mind has been holding.

Give it to the earth. Write what you're releasing on biodegradable paper, bury it, and let the earth compost it into something new.

The specific ritual matters less than the conscious intention. You're not just thinking about releasing. You're energetically completing. Creating closure. Making space.

What Fills the Space You Create

When you release something, you create space. And that space will fill with something. So be intentional about what you're inviting in.

If you released "I'm not capable," what are you inviting instead? If you released resentment toward someone, what are you inviting in that space?

You don't have to force positivity. You just have to open the door to something different being true.

Say it out loud: "In the space where I was carrying [what you released], I'm now open to [what you're inviting]."

That openness is enough.

An Invitation to Close the Year Consciously

If you're ready to look at what you're carrying, to release what doesn't serve you and keep what does, sometimes we need support in doing this work at a deeper level than our minds can reach.

The Healing Frequency Holiday Bundle is specifically designed to help you move through this year-end energetic audit and release work.

This limited-time offer includes:

• Three 60-minute Reiki sessions to work with your energy field and identify what you're carrying that's ready to be released
• $75 in savings compared to booking sessions individually
• Bonus: January Activation Circle — A collective energy healing and intention-setting gathering to begin the new year inside The Healing Frequency (whether you're gifting this or receiving it, you both get access)
• Additional Gifter Bonuses: Healthy Holiday Eating Tips PDF + Low-Sugar Holiday Guide to Sweeteners PDF

We work with your energy field to identify what you're holding that's ready to be released. We don't just think about it or talk about it—we work with it energetically, at the level where it's actually stored. We help your nervous system let go of what your mind has been clutching.

You'll complete the year feeling lighter, clearer, and more resourced for whatever 2026 brings.

This bundle is only available through the end of the year, making it the perfect support for doing this conscious completion work before 2026 begins.

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Because the best preparation for a new year isn't setting goals. It's releasing what's keeping you stuck in old frequencies.

The year-end energy audit isn't about being hard on yourself. It's about being honest with yourself.

It's about seeing clearly what you've been carrying so you can consciously choose what deserves to come with you.

So before you make your resolutions, before you set your intentions, before you decide what you want to create in 2026:

Do the audit. Look at what you're carrying. Release what doesn't serve you. Keep what does.

That's how you actually start fresh. Not by pretending the past didn't happen. But by consciously completing it and choosing what you bring forward.

The new year is coming whether you're ready or not.

But you get to decide what version of yourself shows up for it.