Happy New Year!

I’m writing this from Florianópolis, Brazil!

I’m about 3 weeks into our year-long adventure through Latin America with my husband.

We left Singapore (home for 18 years), bounced through Miami, Buenos Aires, and Uruguay, and are now settling into a month of beach, Brazilian BBQ, samba, and figuring out what “slow travel” actually means.

So the past few weeks, I’ve been practising what I preach: doing less.

Self-hibernating.

Giving myself space while everything changes.

It’s been wonderful. And also, honestly? I’ve been itching to get back to work.

Last week I almost caved. My inbox was overflowing, I felt behind, I started drafting a newsletter at 6am from the couch of my Montevideo Airbnb…

Then I caught myself. That familiar “I should be doing more” energy.

The same energy that burned me out in the first place…

So I closed the laptop. Went for a walk. And reminded myself that rest isn’t the obstacle to a good year. It’s the foundation.

Which brings me to this: my first newsletter of 2026!

And if you’re new here (yay, welcome!), let me tell you what you’ve signed up for.

I’m a health coach, but not the kind who’ll tell you to wake up at 5am, drink celery juice, or manifest your way to wellness.

I’m more interested in what actually works.

The unsexy stuff. The evidence-based stuff. The things you can do in your real, messy life.

So instead of resolutions (which fail 90% of the time, by the way), I’m giving you 26 things that actually work.

Science-backed. BS-free. No guru energy. Just practical experiments you can try, tweak, or ignore entirely.

Pick one. Or five. Or just read for the dopamine hit of feeling like you’ve got options.

2026, let’s go.

Noemie x

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