Have you ever paused to reflect on your year before stepping into the next? In this episode, I share a simple 4-step ritual to help you celebrate your wins, learn from your challenges, and set clear intentions for the future. We’ll walk through prompts to identify what you’re proud of, the lessons you want to remember, and what you’re grateful for. Then, we’ll focus on creating a vision for the year ahead, guided by a single word to keep you aligned and inspired. This practice has been a game-changer for me, and I hope it helps you approach the new year with purpose and clarity. Whether you do it alone or with loved ones, it’s a meaningful way to start fresh. Let’s dive in together. === Join our ICF-Accredited Coach Certification Program, the Institute for Coaching Mastery, designed to help you become a highly skilled + confident coach at the top of your game, in any niche. Whether you’re Brand New wanting to shortcut the learning curve, or you’re Experienced looking to back higher fees with real value, we offer trauma-informed Trainings + Tools, Live Coaching, and a Customizable 6-figure + Beyond Signature Roadmap to take your income + impact to the next level. If you want to create lasting change in your life and feel confident in helping others do the same, while having a thriving business… Click this link to Learn More + Apply Today: https://www.alyssanobriga.com/applynow ✨ === EPISODE TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 Intro 1:22 What is the End of Year Ritual? 1:40 Why do this Ritual? 3:00 How Powerful A Shift In Mindset Can Be 3:24 How to Do This Ritual + Who to Do It With 3:54 Tips on Best Ways to Do the End-of-Year Ritual 4:39 Prompt #1 5:37 The Nourishment Barrior Explained 6:16 Prompt #2 7:27 Why You Should Focus on the Pattern, Not the Person 8:16 Alyssa's Personal Key Takeaways From This Year 12:00 Prompt #3 12:21 Reflection From The Past Year 13:31 Bonus Prompt 13:43 Switch Out Your Holiday Cards + Try Gratitude Cards Instead 14:22 Prompt #4 15:28 How To Show Up In the New Year 15:43 Finding Your Word of The Year 16:20 Alyssa's Words of the Year for 2023 + 2024 17:30 How to Make This Process Your Own 18:22 Conclusion === Have you watched our previous episode with Erin Claire Jones? Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/y3kGrvH8RLA ==== Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - Disclaimer This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes. It is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or any other qualified professional. We shall in no event be held liable to any party for any reason arising directly or indirectly for the use or interpretation of the information presented in this video. Copyright 2023, Alyssa Nobriga International, LLC - All rights reserved. === Website: alyssanobriga.com Instagram: @alyssanobriga TikTok - @alyssanobriga Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/6b5s2xbA2d3pETSvYBZ9YR Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/healing-human-potential/id1705626495
Chapter 1: What is the End of Year Ritual?
Each week I'll share with you life-changing tools to support you in awakening and manifesting your dream life from the inside out. We'll be exploring the intersection between ancient wisdom and modern everyday life, really diving deep into the art of human potential through the lens of psychology, spirituality, and coaching. Let's let the magic unfold. We are almost at the end of the year.
Chapter 2: Why Should You Do This Ritual?
And as I sit here to record this podcast, I'm just reminded of all of the gifts that this year has brought. So I just want to thank you for being here, for listening and to start implementing what I'm sharing here, because this is where your life changes.
I've always found just before the end of the year can be a powerful time to reflect on the last 12 months and then set us up for intentions in the coming year. It helps us consciously close things out and step into the new year with fresh energy. And so today I want to share with you a special end of year ritual.
Chapter 3: What Are the Key Prompts for Reflection?
I've been doing this ritual that consists of four prompts over the past few years, and it's beautiful. It's really meant to support you in taking a sacred pause to reflect, to really integrate all the lessons that you've learned in the past year, and then set you up for a powerful new year. What I find is that the ego often looks for lack where we aren't yet.
And this is a subconscious way to motivate us to do better, to do more. So for example, let's say you have a fierce inner critic that tells you, you never hit your goals, so why bother making them? And you feel really disempowered or you don't even want to set goals in the new year.
This is often unconscious for people, but if you've been doing personal development work for a little while, you may be more conscious of it. And what I notice is that that pattern of criticism is trying to help us show up more so that we do reach our goals, right? So we are improving in the future. But when we investigate how effective it is, we actually see that it paralyzes us.
And then we completely miss out on the gifts and the things that we did step into this year. So it's important to slow down, to take dominion over this pattern of thinking and acknowledge all that we've stepped into and the lessons that came with it.
So we can take the intention of doing better in our lives, but we upgrade the approach for how we do it and how we improve, realizing that being compassionate with ourselves is actually productive. And so this practice that we're about to do is not only going to make you feel good, but it's also going to help you more powerfully step into what it is you want to create next.
Because it's really easy to look at where we're not and then totally miss out on all the doors that are opening in front of us right now. And so when we shift out of the mindset of not there yet or never enough, we open to the possibilities and we can see the opportunities in front of us more clearly that we may have missed before.
And so as you intentionally reflect on the experiences you've had this year using these prompts, it's gonna help you zoom out and then realize how much wisdom you've gained over the last year. I'll guide you through this process right now. So you wanna grab a pen and paper, get comfy and really sit and reflect on some of these questions.
I love being next to a fire with a delicious holiday drink, maybe some cacao or a little spiked eggnog, whatever your flavor is. But this is a beautiful practice to do as a family with your kids. I've done that for many years. I love that. You can also do this with friends or you can make it a solo sacred practice. It all works, whatever feels good for you this year.
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Chapter 4: How to Focus on What You've Learned This Year?
And you can come back to this every year if you want. But if you do do it with a group, you might consider going around and sharing your reflections after you have some time to write it down. I think it's a beautiful, more conscious way to connect as a family, to hold each other's dreams, or just learn from each other's lessons. Okay, so let's move into the four different prompts now.
And just know that you can elaborate on these questions. You can make them simple. Whatever feels right for you, just drop in and capture what comes forward. You can also pause the episode as I guide you through each prompt just to give yourself more time to reflect if you need.
You may even want to take time briefly now to look at your phone and just go through your photos of the last year to kind of refresh your memory. Or you can look at your calendar to recall some of the events that happened in the past year. Okay, so the first prompt is to write down three things that you are most proud of from this year.
Chapter 5: What is Your Word for the New Year?
So think back over the last 365 days and all that you've accomplished, and then write down three things that you can pinpoint that you are proud of. This can be anything that's true for you, big or small. Did you finally start taking steps towards something you've been dreaming about, something you've been talking about? What are some goals that you've accomplished this year that you're proud of?
Maybe you prioritized your health. You completed a pattern that you've been playing out for a long time. Or maybe you started standing up for yourself. Really tune in and start feeling into, did you set boundaries? Did you really learn to love yourself more fully this year? Did you start showing up as an amazing friend, partner, or parent?
Chapter 6: How Can You Make This Process Personal?
Chapter 7: What Are the Benefits of Reflecting on the Past Year?
Welcome, I'm Alyssa Nobrega, your host of the Healing and Human Potential podcast, a place for you to discover the multidimensionality of what it means to be human. Over the past 20 years, I've trained thousands of coaches in my methodology, leveraging my experience as a former psychotherapist, and I'm here to share with you all the wisdom and insights that I've learned along the way.
Each week I'll share with you life-changing tools to support you in awakening and manifesting your dream life from the inside out. We'll be exploring the intersection between ancient wisdom and modern everyday life, really diving deep into the art of human potential through the lens of psychology, spirituality, and coaching. Let's let the magic unfold. We are almost at the end of the year.
And as I sit here to record this podcast, I'm just reminded of all of the gifts that this year has brought. So I just want to thank you for being here, for listening and to start implementing what I'm sharing here, because this is where your life changes.
I've always found just before the end of the year can be a powerful time to reflect on the last 12 months and then set us up for intentions in the coming year. It helps us consciously close things out and step into the new year with fresh energy. And so today I want to share with you a special end of year ritual.
I've been doing this ritual that consists of four prompts over the past few years, and it's beautiful. It's really meant to support you in taking a sacred pause to reflect, to really integrate all the lessons that you've learned in the past year, and then set you up for a powerful new year. What I find is that the ego often looks for lack where we aren't yet.
And this is a subconscious way to motivate us to do better, to do more. So for example, let's say you have a fierce inner critic that tells you, you never hit your goals, so why bother making them? And you feel really disempowered or you don't even want to set goals in the new year.
This is often unconscious for people, but if you've been doing personal development work for a little while, you may be more conscious of it. And what I notice is that that pattern of criticism is trying to help us show up more so that we do reach our goals, right? So we are improving in the future. But when we investigate how effective it is, we actually see that it paralyzes us.
And then we completely miss out on the gifts and the things that we did step into this year. So it's important to slow down, to take dominion over this pattern of thinking and acknowledge all that we've stepped into and the lessons that came with it.
So we can take the intention of doing better in our lives, but we upgrade the approach for how we do it and how we improve, realizing that being compassionate with ourselves is actually productive. And so this practice that we're about to do is not only going to make you feel good, but it's also going to help you more powerfully step into what it is you want to create next.
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Chapter 8: How to Approach Your New Year with Intention?
So think back over the last 365 days and all that you've accomplished, and then write down three things that you can pinpoint that you are proud of. This can be anything that's true for you, big or small. Did you finally start taking steps towards something you've been dreaming about, something you've been talking about? What are some goals that you've accomplished this year that you're proud of?
Maybe you prioritized your health. You completed a pattern that you've been playing out for a long time. Or maybe you started standing up for yourself. Really tune in and start feeling into, did you set boundaries? Did you really learn to love yourself more fully this year? Did you start showing up as an amazing friend, partner, or parent?
Tune in and start writing out whatever's true for you and feel free to write more than three if that comes up.
psychotherapy there's something called the nourishment barrier and this is when we don't take the time to do something like this where we just keep looking for the next goal to give us something without pausing and really receiving of the acknowledgement of what we have stepped into we end up creating this hungry ghost where we look for the next external goal to give us something that we aren't already receiving it's like the barrier is in the nourishment
So you taking time to pause and reflect on all that you've stepped into is going to help you feel more nourished, which will give you more energy to say yes to your dreams moving forward. Again, you can feel free to pause here if you want more time. We're just going to move on to the next one. So now list out three things that you've learned this year that you never want to forget.
Did you discover new practices that you love or hard lessons that you don't ever want to repeat again in the new year? So maybe you came across a profound wisdom that really shifted things for you, or you're clear that you want to let something go. You don't want to take it into the new year.
What I find is that sometimes people reflect on what they don't want, the things that they want to leave behind, but it comes with a level of judgment. So maybe they say, I'm going to let that toxic person go, or I'm never going to be a doormat again. But then it comes with a level of resistance. And when we judge something, we're actually stuck with it.
So the intention is good, but we don't need to be in resistance to make a change. And if you really hear the wisdom in that and incorporate that into your way of living, it can change your life. You do not need to be in resistance or judgment in order to change something.
Acceptance, not complacency, but acceptance to say this is what it is, helps you align with the moment, have more energy, and more proactively create the change that you're wanting. The other thing I see that people do, and I want to highlight this for you, is that they focus on the person and not the pattern. And when we do that, we get sucked into drama thinking it's really about them. It's not.
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