How to cope with New Year anxiety  — a trauma-informed, faith + mental health plan for when January feels heavy, urgent, or unsettling. By Jennifer Nicole Green, NP-C | Lolli Love Last updated:  January 6, 2026 How to cope with New Year anxiety:  start with a 60-second nervous system reset  (longer exhales), then choose one tiny next step  (water, food, movement, or a boundary), and add a simple breath prayer  to reconnect with God’s steadiness. New Year anxiety is common bec

You promise yourself an early night… then keep scrolling, reading, or puttering because the day didn’t leave space just for you. That pattern has a name: revenge bedtime procrastination—delaying sleep to reclaim personal time, often on phones, which erodes tomorrow’s mood, focus, and health.

We’re trained to help, to fix, to make things better. And when something breaks — when a relationship falters, when a patient dies, when a child drifts — our hearts interpret it as failure.