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It's 7am in Berlin on January 1st.

You might still be asleep. Or nursing a headache. Or wondering why champagne seemed like a good idea.

But let me ask you something:

Do you feel ready for 2026?

Or does something from last year feel... unfinished?

Not your to-do list. Not your goals.

Something in your body.

Your calendar resets on January 1st. Your nervous system doesn't.

The moments you pushed through? The conversations you didn't have? The exhaustion you ignored?

Still there.

Most people step into 2026 carrying everything from 2025.

Then they wonder why their resolutions fail by mid-January.

It's not willpower.

It's unfinished energy.

What is unfinished energy?

It's what you didn't let yourself feel when it happened.

Your body has been holding it ever since. Waiting for the moment you finally have capacity to feel it.

Most of us learned early: certain feelings aren't safe.

So we developed survival strategies - freeze, stay busy, please people, shut down.

It worked. We survived.

But now we have a pattern: When something feels too big, we run.

The work isn't getting better coping strategies.

The work is building capacity to actually feel what's here - without fixing it, without changing it, without running.

This year, I saw the same pattern again and again:

The people who actually changed had one thing in common:

They stopped trying to fix themselves and started feeling themselves.

Let me show you what I mean.

A Woman came to me after three decades of meditation, breathwork, Tai Chi.

Still experiencing "chronic freeze" in her legs, arms, face.

30 years of practice. Still couldn't access her body.

Why? Because practice alone doesn't release trauma. Presence does.

She needed someone to witness and guide her while she learned to meet the frozen places. Slowly. When they were ready.

Six months later?

She's taking trains. Going to cafés. Living her actual life.

She still has PTSD. She still has frozen parts. The symptoms didn't disappear.

But her relationship to them did.

She told me: "Ich fühle mich nicht mehr machtlos. Ich fühle mich, als könnte ich damit arbeiten."

(I don't feel powerless anymore. I feel like I can work with this.)

Why transformation takes time

Real change needs three things: time, relationship, and safety built through repeated experience.

Not one-session healing. Not quick fixes.

The kind of safety that only builds when you're met without agenda. Again and again.

Everything you've been running from is still in your body. In your nervous system.

Pulling at your energy. Making you tired for no clear reason.

Until you finally let yourself feel it.

Being present means: staying - not running, not freezing, not disconnecting - while feelings move through you.

I'm taking new clients in January

Not everyone.

This work is for people who are done running. Who are ready to feel what they've been avoiding. Who want to build capacity to stay present with their own life.

If that's you - if you recognize yourself in this story - let's talk.

​Book a free 20-minute intake call​

No pressure. Just an honest conversation about whether this work is what you need right now.

And if this made you think of someone else?

Someone who's exhausted for no clear reason. Functional outside, frozen inside. Keeps saying "I'll somehow manage."

Forward this letter to them.

Sometimes the best gift is being seen.

2026 can begin with the discovery that you can hold more than you thought.

That feelings aren't dangerous.

That staying present is possible.

Warmly,
Johannes

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Johannes Ebert Bodywork // 13351 Berlin // hello@johannesebert.com // +49 173 29 88 497
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