Looking back on the year and sharing some of the things I’ll be working on in 2026.
Hi friends! How are you? I hope that you’re having an amazing week so far. The kids are back in school, Liv’s 14th birthday is this week (HOW?!), and I’m just now starting to get my life together. I was feeling so productive until we hit winter break, and I’ve been very slowly getting back into things.
I’m looking forward to finding a routine again, for some fun things coming up, and cautiously optimistic about the New Year.
Some personal highlights from 2025:
– We went to Disneyland to celebrate Liv’s birthday
– Beefsteak with friends
– The Pilot retired from the Air Force
– We celebrated Wyatt’s Bar Mitzvah
– I sang Carmina Burana with the symphony chorus
– My brother Bailey got married!!
– In my most unhinged and successful travel plan ever, the girls and I took a European Disney cruise and spent 5+ weeks in Spain
– and the latest addition to our family: Lola the min goldendoodle. We are all absolutely smitten with this sweet girl and Maisey is already loving having a sister. She’s definitely a puppy, but has a great energy and isn’t constantly harassing Maisey. I can tell they’re going to be best friends.
looking back on 2025 and my goals for 2026
Professional recap:
From an Integrative Health Practitioner standpoint, this was a year filled with learning, expansion, and client success. It was so amazing to see their wins, and I reviewed over 100 lab tests last year!
I was a 100-day challenge winner thanks to your incredible support (#7 out of over 5,000 practitioners!) and was invited to speak on a Health Coach Success panel with some other IHPs whom I respect and admire so much.
I feel so blessed every day to be aligned with EquiLife’s incredible mission and the inspiring people behind it. I can’t wait to see what IHP and EquiLife have in store for the next year!!
I hired a podcast manager and we saw 700% growth last summer, which was huge! He has helped me with the show notes, editing, creating reels, and full video episodes on YouTube. I took a little break for the holidays and am excited to get back into it with some incredible guests booked for this month.
I’m also thankful for affiliate partners, including Lumebox, Nutrisense, EquiLife, IHP, Sakara, HigherDOSE, Danger Coffee, Organifi, OneSkin, ButcherBox, Canopy, Somavedic, Air Doctor, Vivarays, Vivrelle, Hydrow, We Feed Raw, Sculpt Society, Oliveda and to all of you who shop through my links. It directly supports our family (and helps keep this little blog running), and I appreciate it so much. I also started working with EllieMD this year because I’m loving their products!
I launched Healing Code, which is my new signature program, and also launched Revenue Rx as a mentorship for fellow Integrative Health Practitioners and health coaches looking to scale their businesses. I also hosted my first workshop and am excited to do more of these in 2026; stay tuned for the details on the next one!! Our next group program, DetoxU, officially launches next week so more info on the way for that. Lots of fun stuff on the horizon 😉
My efforts this year will be focused on coaching clients and program participants, my Revenue Rx clients as I help them create profitable and freedom-based businesses, and of course, content creation on the podcast, Instagram, and blog/Substack.
In full transparency, the blog had some highs and some… lows. When I started the year, ad revenue was CRUSHING it. I saw some numbers that I hadn’t seen since the heydey of blogging. While we were in Spain, my ad revenue was the best it had been in years. (Which verifies my thought that we do indeed need to move to Spain.) Welp, this fall, it all came crashing down, has yet to recover, and I’m doubtful that it will.
With the constant Google updates and AI search, there’s really not a need for people to click on blog posts to get information. Search was a huge referrer for me, and now it’s abysmal. Ad revenue is now around 1/4 of what it typically is for this time of year… and it’s pricey to keep blog alive with all of the associated costs.
The good news is that I have multiple revenue streams – this is why you can’t put all of your revenue eggs in one basket – but the devastating news is that I think that a lot of bloggers will jump ship this year. I started a Substack which reminds me of the old days of blogging; no ads, no writing for The Man (aka Google search) and it’s just casual and fun. I’ll still be posting here of course, but if you’d like to follow along over there, I’d love to see you!!
Personal and health goals:
My health goal is to continue to work on the habits that make me feel my best, like quarterly detoxes, smart supplements, restorative practices, dialing in nutrition, walks, workouts (I like a mix of strength training, barre, spin, Pilates, and hot yoga), and stress management. My goal is to minimize toxins where I can, replenish deficiencies, and continue to use functional lab testing as an amazing tool. I feel proud of myself for taking charge of my health and getting to the root cause of what I was experiencing, and also for the ability to share everything I’ve learned along the way.
I feel like I’m able to push things up with workouts again, and might even set some fitness goals for the new year 😉 I’m planning our summer travel (Tokyo and Seoul! Please lmk if you have any recs!) and want to just get back into some of the things that I let go when I was trying to navigate homeschool teaching + work (like reading instead of doomscrolling, meditating, finishing my High Performance Health and IHP Level 3 certifications, and more time with friends).
Continue to be the best mom, wife, and friend that I can be. I want the people in my life to know how much I love them, and to lead with a grateful, patient, loving heart each day. Some days are harder than others lol, but a morning gratitude check-in really impacts how I feel for the rest of the day.
I’d love to hear about your year and your goals! What’s something you’re proud of from this past year, what are you working on right now? Do you have any health goals? Travel plans? I want to hear it all!
Wishing you a happy, healthy, joyful and abundant 2026.
xo
Gina
