With New Year’s right around the corner, many people are discussing different life changes or resolutions they are hoping to take place. However, when it comes to New Year’s resolutions, many people feel overwhelmed, or have given up completely on setting goals for the upcoming year. Why is that? Sometimes the goals are too big, some are unrealistic, and sometimes a year like 2021 happens and meeting your goal is the last of your worry. I am here to tell you... that it is OKAY. Sometimes just surviving and getting through the day is good enough, and that should be celebrated just as much.

Soon (or maybe already) you will start seeing people post about their goals for 2022… weight loss, read more books, travel more, etc. These can feel overwhelming and unhelpful for where you are in your journey of life… instead here are some goals for 2022 that you and your therapist can work on together!

• Setting boundaries in your life.
• Learning and practicing positive self-talk.
• Saying “No”.
• Self-forgiveness.
• Forgiveness in general.
• Journaling (almost) every day.
• Sitting in your feelings.
• Ask for help.
• Figure out what your self-care looks like.
• Self-acceptance.
• Find music that makes you happy!
• Learn to identify different feelings.
• Love yourself.
• Take a step towards the uncomfortable.
• Laugh, smile, cry, scream…. Because they will happen this year anyways.
• Be unapologetically yourself.

In therapy we set goals all of the time. They can be goals for that session, day, week, or year, and yet those do not feel so scary. Why is that?  In therapy you know you have a person that will hold you accountable to those goals and check in on them and you. New Year’s resolutions often fail for being too big and being alone when trying to achieve them, but what if we looked at them the same way we look at goals in therapy? Talk to your therapist about where you want to be at the end of 2022 and set some goals for yourself. Embrace the failures throughout the year and celebrate the success.

If you are wanting to set some of these goals listed above and don’t know where to start, reach out to me at [Please enable JavaScript to view this email address]!

Happy New Year!!