2026: A Year of Hope

It’s not unusual to feel hopeful and excited at the beginning of a new year. New years always bring an air of renewal and excitement to them.

Everyone hopeful with their list of resolutions and goals for the year. A sense of hope and excitement. Thinking that this year will finally be the year that X happens, or you achieve that one thing.

But for me, 2026 has a different feeling.

I’m sure I’m not alone in saying that 2025 was not necessarily an easy year. Don’t get me wrong, for me personally it was a fantastic year. I started BEM Healing for one! I achieved a number of things that made the year joyful and fulfilling for me. Yet, there were still big challenges, being the year of the snake, there was indeed a lot of shedding that took place, and not all of it was easy.

Collectively too, we saw a lot of upheaval - and while I am not one to play into collective fears and noise, there was indeed a lot of it that could be felt.

And if I’m honest, by the end of the year, I couldn’t wait for it to be over. I was ready for that energy to pass, the year of the snake to end, and that sense of renewed energy that comes from a brand new year.

Maybe it’s because I’m in a place at the moment where I am not really setting goals, and am more focused on the present moment and going with the seasons and cycles of my own rhythms, but the start of 2026 isn’t accompanied with the usual sense of big excitement and possibility for me.

Instead, it feels like a small, quiet feeling of peace. A gentle knowing that this year will bring about the fruits of all that I shed and healed last year. Although I am always wishing for things to come quicker, and I am no stranger to being impatient as all hell, there is a quote I have on my desk in front of me as I type this that especially hits me and feels apt for this coming year - “I trust the timing of my life. Everything is unfolding perfectly”.

That is how 2026 feels for me.

I don’t feel this huge rush of excited energy to go out and rush to make my dreams and desires happen.

Instead, I feel a quiet knowing that they will all unfold in the perfect timing, that all the seeds I planted over the last couple of years will start to be sown.

There is a sense of hope, and not in that very outward “I’m going to make this happen” sort of way, it is much more subtle then that. It feels no need to shout or rush.

It just is.

Because over the last year, especially the last couple of months, as I continue to deepen into this work, I have come to realise one core truth, one that to our human mind may be hard to understand - but that is, that the impact of this work is often not seen or felt until much later on, sometimes years later. But I can be sure of this one thing: that every session, every released emotion, every released belief, is slightly altering the course of our lives under the surface.

And so, that is my intention for this year, to continue to surrender and allow things to unfold as they will. Continuing to deepen my faith in the universe, this work, and myself, as the creator of my own reality.