Screw the Resolutions: Here’s What You Actually Need This New Year

Erin Corman
Dec 30, 2025
3 min read

By Erin C. Corman, MS

Every December, we all get hit with the same predictable parade of “New Year, New You!” nonsense. Buy a new planner. Drink more water. Stop texting your ex. Do yoga 7 days a week. Reinvent your entire personality by January 3rd.

Cute… but also completely unrealistic.

Let’s be real — most New Year’s resolutions have the life span of a house plant kept by someone who “swears they watered it.”

So instead of setting goals you’ll abandon faster than leftover Christmas cookies, let’s talk about something that actually sticks: awareness, embodiment, and energy.

Yes, yoga. Yes, Spinal Energetics. Yes, holistic counseling. Yes, my MindShift program. But mostly? You learning how to stop sabotaging yourself.

🧘‍♀️ Yoga: The Anti-Resolution Practice

Yoga does not care about your resolutions. Yoga cares about your patterns.

Roll out your mat and suddenly you’re face-to-face with:

Your inability to slow down
Your tendency to push past your limits
Your habit of giving up as soon as something gets uncomfortable
Your wild talent for judging yourself before the pose even starts

It’s not calling you out…Okay, maybe it is calling you out, but in a loving, “hey, we can do better” kind of way.

Yoga doesn’t ask you to be a “new you.” It asks you to be a more honest you. And that’s where everything begins.

⚡ Spinal Energetics: When Your Energy Starts Snitching on You

Spinal Energetics is the part where your nervous system goes, “Listen babe, I’ve been keeping these patterns stored for YEARS. Do you want them or not?”

Your body remembers:

Every time you swallowed your truth
Every time you froze instead of setting a boundary
Every time you pushed through burnout because “you had to”
Every emotion you didn’t have time to feel

A session isn’t about theatrics. It’s about energetic honesty. It’s your system saying,"Let me help you let this crap go... unless you want to drag it into 2026 too.”

🔥 Energy Therapy: Because You Can’t “Positive Vibes” Your Way Out of Old Trauma

We all love good vibes. But ignoring your emotional baggage doesn’t make you enlightened — it makes you exhausted.

Real energy work means:

Clearing what’s stuck
Feeling what you’ve avoided
Letting your emotions complete their damn cycle
Learning to regulate instead of react

This isn’t about being calm all the time. It’s about being conscious all the time.

2025 doesn’t need a “new you.” It needs a more regulated you.

🧠 Holistic Counseling: Where Your Brain Finally Gets a Seat at the Table

Your nervous system does one thing. Your thoughts do another. Your trauma does something entirely different.

Holistic counseling ties them together so you stop fighting yourself on 15 different fronts. It teaches you to listen to your inner dialogue, interrupt the self-sabotage patterns, and build emotional intelligence that actually holds up when life gets loud.

This is where you stop repeating cycles and start choosing better ones.

🌙 The MindShift Program: The Anti-Resolution Resolution

My MindShift Method isn’t here to fix you — because you’re not broken. It’s here to help you finally understand:

Why you sabotage your goals
Why you procrastinate the things you want
Why your patterns are on repeat
Why you feel stuck even when you’re doing “everything right”

MindShift is resolution-proof. Because it’s not about goals — it’s about identity. When you shift the unconscious programming running your life? Everything else changes naturally.

No forcing. No “new year, new me.” Just YOU — finally walking in alignment with who you’re meant to be.

🤣 A Few Resolutions I Do Approve Of

Let’s set some resolutions that won’t die by January 4th:

Show up imperfectly.
Stop gaslighting your own intuition.
Strengthen your body so life feels easier.
Clear the energy you don’t need to carry.
Let your emotions move instead of letting them rot.
Drop the self-sabotage you inherited.
Prioritize your nervous system, not your to-do list.

Everything else? Optional.

🌟 This New Year, Don’t Change Who You Are — Upgrade How You Move Through Life

If you’re ready for a year that isn’t built on burnout, guilt, or unrealistic expectations…If you want a year where your mind, body, and energy are finally on the same damn team…If you want 2025 to feel like a shift instead of a cycle…

Then it’s time to step in.