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Hi <<First Name>>,

I hope this message finds you happy and healthy and ready to open the books on a new year. This month, I want to share a recap of what 2020 meant to me and what I’m looking forward to in 2021.

Before I dive into any of that, I want to ask you a favor. In connection with an entrepreneurship program that I’m in, I put together a short survey about the health and wellness industry in the Boston area. It will take three minutes of your time and your feedback will be really helpful for the future of Just Breathe Manual Therapy. Feel free to share this survey as well – the more responses, the better!

Wishing you fulfillment and joy in 2021,

Jeff

Closing 2020 and Opening Up to 2021

For all the cliche comments about how 2020 was a crazy year, there’s one crazy thing that stands head and shoulders above everything else for me: Just Breathe Manual Therapy was born!

Easily, this is my most momentous event of 2020. It’s also one of the most momentous events in my life.

The birth of Just Breathe Manual Therapy is a story of liberation. For most of my life, I’d felt hemmed in by fear. A fear of failure, a fear of inadequacy, and even a fear of opening myself up to people.

In the early part of 2020, I went to Hong Kong to teach a Reflexive Performance Reset clinic and realized that the fear I felt was really just a story, and I could make the decision to leave the story behind. In Hong Kong, I learned what living without fear felt like. It felt free, it felt powerful, and it felt natural.

When I returned, I had a burning fire to continue living with this feeling of freedom and to help people start to feel it as well. With my background in massage therapy and the work I’d done in studying the disciplines of psychology and neuroscience, I saw that I could help people make massive changes in their lives by helping them find some of that freedom in themselves.

In April, I gave it a name. In May, I began to take on remote clients. In July, I started seeing people in person. In August, I opened my location in Lawrence.

Since opening the doors, I’ve helped dozens of people start to feel more at home in their body. I’ve witnessed people realize for the first time in twenty years that it’s possible to be out of pain. I’ve seen people begin to move past traumatic events from their younger days. I’ve seen people realize the possibilities that exist in their lives that they didn’t know were there.

As I shift my gaze toward 2021, I see evolution. The work of Just Breathe Manual Therapy is only beginning. There is big news which I’ll announce in January. I’ll continue to add more clarity to how I believe this work can fit into your life and make it easier for us to work together. Above all, I will continue to learn and practice so that I can serve you better. If I preach change and progress, I need to live those principles as well. Together, we can make 2021 the best year of your life.

The Podcast

Here are two recent episodes of Hands At The Table that are worth highlighting.

Episode 14 – Talking Books: Job’s Body. For Bori, the book Job’s Body was a turning point in how she saw the intersection of science and spirit. The interweaving of hard and soft sciences is at the heart of what makes great manual therapists. This book presents those two worlds in a way that makes them easy to hold together without the false assumption that to believe one is to dismiss the other. Holding those two together are at the heart of what drive the intense curiosity that Bori and I share.

Episode 15 – Stand Up for COVID. Despite the title, this solo episode with Bori is not just about COVID so much as it is about realizing your self-worth. Through the lens of how people have responded to the pandemic, Bori explores how we can learn to set boundaries and how sometimes we need to have a line crossed to realize how important those lines really can be.

Cause Of The Month

Each month, I contribute 10% of Just Breathe Manual Therapy’s gross revenue to causes that are making a difference.

This month, I am donating to GiveWell.

GiveWell is a charitable fund which vets specific charities and ensures the highest impact of each dollar given and largely focuses on childhood vaccinations and malaria prevention.

While in the past and future, my focus will be on organizations who serve closer to home, I chose GiveWell because through their partnership with the podcast 99 Percent Invisible, the donation will be doubled.