12/18/2025
As the calendar year comes to a close, I notice a familiar kind of pressure in the air. It’s subtle, but persistent. An expectation to wrap things up neatly. To make sense of it all and move on feeling renewed and better in some way.
And yet, that’s rarely how real life feels.
What I’m noticing in the therapy room and in my own life is less about resolution and more about what’s still tender. The conversations we never quite finished. The grief that got buried. The anxiety humming quietly in the background. The job or relationship we keep circling.
Our humanness is layered. Not everything that matters can be neatly summarized by December 31st.
From a psychotherapeutic lens, what we don’t make space for tends to find other ways of getting our attention through stress, burnout, stuckness, and familiar patterns. The parts of our experience we don’t slow down enough to feel or reflect on often show up in our bodies, our relationships, or the ways we try to cope.
As Carl Jung said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” Not because something is wrong with us, but because something within us is still asking to be noticed, understood, and cared for.
I’m moving through this myself right now, noticing layers of perfectionism and performance. Letting go isn’t dramatic. Often it’s quiet and a little disorienting.
You might recognize this too. A longing to ease anxiety or self-pressure. A readiness to stop people-pleasing or over-functioning. A sense that a job, role, or relationship no longer fits.
Therapy can be a place to stay with these edges and allow clarity to emerge.
If you’re feeling the weight of what feels unfinished, my team of therapists and I offer a compassionate space to slow down and tend to what this year has stirred. You don’t have to carry it alone. Reach out.
