It’s December – can you believe it? We are wrapping up 2025 by focusing on a powerful lesson inside the Fresh Start Experience: Empowered Happy January, sweet families — and welcome to a brand new year!
January is a natural reset. A chance to pause, reflect, and decide how we want to think, feel, and show up as we move forward. That’s why we’re beginning 2026 inside the Fresh Start Experience with a perfect lesson: Mindset.
Before tools work… before strategies stick… before change lasts… our mindset matters.
When our thoughts feel heavy, hopeless, or stuck, parenting can feel exhausting and defeating. But when our mindset is rooted in courage, growth, and truth, everything becomes more possible — even on the hard days.
Inside this month’s lesson, Wendy guides you through how the thoughts you engage with shape your emotions, your reactions, and the energy in your home.
You’ll learn how to notice unhelpful thought patterns with compassion, not criticism — and how to gently shift them into thoughts that leave you feeling more capable, grounded, and hopeful.
In this lesson, you’ll practice how to:
• Notice when your mind is watering “weeds” like fear, blame, or discouragement
• Understand how scarcity thinking fuels reactivity and stress
• Strengthen a growth mindset that supports patience, creativity, and connection
• Identify Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTS) and replace them with Positive Empowering Thoughts (PETS)
• Model courageous self-talk out loud so your kids learn it too
• Anchor into determination and unconditional love — even when parenting feels hard
As Wendy shares in the lesson, “Fear breeds fear… and courage breeds courage.”
This month, we’re choosing courage together.
📍 Your January Lesson Bundle is ready for you now in the lesson library of our private community or in your Bonfire Resources tab of our website member dashboard.
January Activity: Strengthening a Growth Mindset
This month’s activity walks you step-by-step through identifying the thoughts that tend to trip you up — and how to shift them in a way that actually rewires your brain.
You’ll work through:
• The Growth Mindset Self-Talk Chart
• The ANTS → PETS mindset shifting exercise
• Reflection prompts that help you feel empowered instead of stuck
This is powerful, foundational work — and even small mindset shifts can create big changes over time.
January Printable
A simple, grounding reminder you can return to all month long:
“If you’re tempted to say ‘I can’t,’ have the courage to add ‘yet.’”
Print it, post it, or keep it nearby as you practice strengthening your inner dialogue.
This month’s kids lesson pairs beautifully with your own learning: Growth Mindset
Kids will explore what it means to believe in themselves, keep trying when things feel hard, and talk to themselves with kindness instead of criticism.
Through stories, activities, and reflection, kids will learn:
• That mistakes help them grow
• How to shift from “I can’t” to “I’m learning”
• Why effort matters more than perfection
• How to practice brave, encouraging self-talk
This lesson gives kids language and tools that support confidence, resilience, and emotional safety — especially when challenges pop up.
NEW! Live Nervous System Regulation Practice Sessions
Week of January 5th
We’re starting something new in 2026 — live, guided nervous system regulation practices to help you actually use the tools you’re learning.
Join us LIVE during the week of January 5th:
• Monday–Wednesday at 8:30am PT
• Thursday at 7:30am PT
• Friday at the start of our weekly coaching call at 11:30am PT
These short, supportive sessions will help you build habits, feel more comfortable in your own skin, and increase the likelihood that regulation tools show up in real life moments.
Weekly Coaching Calls
Friday, January 9 & 16 @ 11:30am PT
Monthly Success Call
Monday, January 12 @ 11:30am PT
👉 Click HERE to mark all of our upcoming calls on your calendar
💛 A Gentle Reminder as We Begin the Year
You don’t need to overhaul everything.
You don’t need to be perfect.
You don’t need to “fix” yourself.
Each time you:
• notice a thought
• pause instead of spiral
• choose a more truthful inner voice
• press play on a lesson
• show yourself compassion
…you are strengthening the foundation of your family.
We are so grateful to walk into this new year with you — cheering you on as you water the garden, not the weeds.