Easing into the New Year
Hello Brave Community!
♡ Lovely to meet you here in 2025 ♡
The holidays are behind us – some people are thinking, “thank goodness!” and are feeling relieved, while others may be feeling the holiday come down that follows joyous, celebratory times. Whatever you’re feeling following the holidays, it’s valid.
As we settle into January, many of us may feel a mix of exhaustion and hope. While the new calendar year can bring an energy of excitement, it’s important to honor how you are feeling right now – especially in the heart of winter.
The winter season encourages rest, reflection, and preservation, not necessarily big leaps or new beginnings. We are smack dab in the middle of the season of dormancy and restoration, so if setting goals or intentions feels overwhelming, give yourself permission to wait.
As the days lengthen and energy naturally shifts in the spring, you may find that to be the perfect time to embrace growth and new directions. Even though as humans we have common, connecting threads, it’s important to remember our individual differences and just because it’s a new calendar year doesn’t automatically mean you’ll feel rested and restored and ready to set goals.
For now, let’s focus on nurturing ourselves following the holidays and stepping into the year with intention and gentleness.
Section 2: Body & Soul Goals for 2025
Instead of starting the year with an exhaustive list of intellectual goals that you’re not actually connected to, we encourage you to consider tuning into your body and soul. Body and soul goals are about deep alignment, rather than external achievement.
When we set goals from an intellectual or analytical place we feel disconnected from...
Our bodies
OurSELVES, and
Those goals
...which fills us with dread instead of curiosity and inspiration.
You’ll be able to tell you are setting intellectual goals because you will find yourself thinking your way through the process instead of feeling your way through.
Intellectual goals often bring up a lot of yuck and resistance because they focus on what we *think* we should be doing or what we *think* we should want based on messaging and pressures from outside sources. It can be hard to get excited about intellectual goals because we usually aren't deeply connected to them on a soul level.
When we infuse the goal-setting process with a focus on body and soul, we create a more visceral and heartfelt connection to our aspirations for the year ahead. As humans, the more connected we feel to something the more we want to dedicate our time and energy to it. You'll know you're setting body and soul goals because you'll feel drawn to them...you'll feel a literal inner tug toward whatever it is that is speaking to your soul.
Curious to give body and soul goals a try?! Check out the steps below for a completely different and POWERFUL approach to goal setting.
How to Set Body and Soul Goals:
1. Tune In: Take the time you need to center yourself in your body and notice your breath. Let go of any effort or tension that is not needed right now.
2. Reflect Sensationally: Instead of analyzing, feel into your experiences of the past year. Pay attention to emotions, sensations, imagery, your felt sense and any visceral reactions that come through your inner system.
3. Body & Soul Goals: Using the feedback from step 2, let your mind go and let it bring intentions or areas of focus for 2025. Do your best to focus on how, whatever comes to you, makes you feel physically and emotionally.
4. Prioritize Joy: Identify goals that bring a sense of joy or fulfillment. Notice how focusing on these areas feels in your body - Do you notice sensations of warmth, inspiration, spaciousness...?
5. Empowering Language: As you start writing down and to putting words to what you're sensing and feeling in your body for your 2025 goals, do your best to use empowering language. Instead of saying "I want to stop filling every minute of my calendar" say, "I want to feel grounded and energized."
6. Movement Check: Now that you have some words written down, stand up, move around, and notice how your body responds. Do these goals feel constricting or expansive? Use the physical feedback to guide your goal-setting (you may need to adjust a few things)
7. Embodied Visualization: Picture yourself reaching your goals. Allow yourself to really feel and be with the energy and emotion in your body as you visualize success.
8. Dance it Out: We know this one may seem strange, but seriously, give it a try! Literally dance to the rhythm of your goals. Let your body express the energy associated with reaching them.
9. Listen to your Intuition: Trust that gentle, nudging voice in the background. If something feels off or disconnected, reassess whether it truly aligns with your authentic self.
10. Express Gratitude: End your goal setting process by expressing gratitude for your body and the experiences it carries and has carried you through.
And…if you find yourself wanting or needing support in getting clear on and connected to your body and soul goals – we got you! Just email us at info@bravecounseling.com and we will be in touch with you ASAP to set up a free consultation!
Section 3: Reintroducing Our Therapy Practice
You may be someone who has been part of our Brave Community for a while now, or, you may be new. Either way, welcome! We are seriously SO glad that you’re here!!
We are Brave Embodiment Counseling, a small group practice made up of 15 therapists based out of Denver, CO. Kim Massale, the founder and owner of Brave Embodiment Counseling, opened the practice in 2018 with a dream of supporting the women of Denver in stepping more fully into their power and magic.
6 + years later, the core of our mission is the same: We support and guide the people of Colorado, using creative and powerful methodologies, to move beyond just insight into tangible change and a life with more ease and energy.
We are trained in the most cutting edge + alternative, trauma and attachment informed techniques to support you in accelerating your healing + growth process, so you don’t waste your precious time, money or energy.
We specialize in helping folks with…
Unresolved trauma
Attachment wounds
Dating Support
Internalized patriarchy
Societal programming
Religious trauma
In other words, we empower people to heal and break free from the limiting beliefs that are keeping them stuck and feeling small.
Currently, we offer virtual services that include:
Individual Therapy (DBT, CBT, ACT, Art Therapy, EMDR, IFS, Inner Child Healing, Parts Work, Somatic Psychotherapy)
Couples Therapy
Spiritual Guidance
Clinical Supervision
Private Practice Building
Rates & Insurance:
We currently accept…
Denver County (CO Access) Medicaid
Out of pocket/private pay
We do not participate or submit claims for other types of insurance aside from Medicaid. We do not accept Medicare.
Each therapist has a set out-of-pocket, private pay rate which is listed on their individual bio page on our website.
You may be able to obtain insurance reimbursement for sessions if you have an insurance plan that has out-of-network benefits. See our website for instructions on how to check and see if you have out-of-network benefits with your insurance company.
Final Thoughts:
Simply put, we love you and we want you to have your dream life because you deserve it, and we understand the powerful ripple effect of people who are in love with their lives.
January is one of the busiest times of the year for therapy because many people set new years resolutions to “go to therapy” and are eager to begin their healing journeys. If you’ve been thinking about starting therapy, now is the time to act!
We offer FREE 30-45 minute consultations, but our therapist’s schedules are filling up quickly. Reach out today to secure your spot and take the first step toward feeling supported, heard, and empowered in 2025.
♡ Warm wishes for a gentle, grounded start to the new year ♡