“You don’t need more discipline. You need conditions that support your nervous system.” This year, I’m beginning with a different question to guide me. What is my nervous system capacity, and how do I cultivate it so I can move toward what matters most to me?

Over the past two decades of coaching, I’ve noticed some significant shifts in the Coaching world. Clients are no longer just bringing goals and dreams. They’re bringing nervous systems shaped by chronic stress, burnout, grief, loneliness, and a deep ache for safety and connection in a world that feels uncertain, emotionally charged and polarized. What if people are showing up not for achievement first, but to feel steady enough to begin again or keep going?

What If Capacity Is the New Life Skill? “Not everything that matters can be carried all at once.”

What If the Most Meaningful Way to Enter the New Year Was to Seek Presence, Not Pressure? “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” — Lao Tzu “When you slow down, the things that matter can catch up to you.” — Brianna Wiest