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How to Use Your Birthday as a Personal Reset (Instead of January)

How to Use Your Birthday as a Personal Reset (Instead of January)

Update: 2025-11-19
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In this special solo episode of You Don’t Need Fixing, Becky invites you into something a little more personal: her birthday reflections. With another year around the sun, and turning 47, she shares her honest truths about growth, identity, boundaries, passion, and evolving more into who she wants to be.

This isn’t the usual New Year reflection you feel obligated to do - inside this episode, Becky opens up about:

  • Why using your birthday as your “new year” is more aligned, more honest, and far more effective than forcing January resolutions.
  • The friendships, spaces and situations she’s finally done tolerating - and the confidence that comes with choosing peace over people-pleasing.
  • What this past year revealed about identity, strength, passion, and rediscovering the parts of you that got buried under responsibility, routine, or “shoulds.”
  • How months of training, fundraising, and the trek itself became the biggest teacher of the year - showing her she’s stronger and more driven than she thought.
  • The habits, health choices and boundaries Becky is claiming for her next 12 months - without restriction, self-punishment, or the “fix yourself” energy we reject here.
  • The surprising feelings around ageing, what she expected life at this age to look like versus the reality, and the renewed desire for adventure, fun, and pushing her edges again.
  • Becky shares why she finally launched her Substack, why the story matters, and how telling it is part of her healing and evolution.


A few gems from this episode:

  • “What if your birthday became your New Year?”

  • “I’m done putting up with things that don’t make me feel good . I’m choosing me now.”

  • “We forget to reflect when things are going well.”

  • “Peace is the thing I keep coming back to. I want a peaceful life, not a dramatic one.”

  • “Life is too short for bad food, bad wine and bad energy.”

Connect with Becky:

Read Becky’s new Substack and follow her story: https://substack.com/@thesecretlifeoftheentrepreneur
Work with Becky (Coaching):Home - The Perfect Time Is Now

Follow on Instagram:
www.instagram.com/theperfecttimeisnowhq


How do YOU feel about birthdays, ageing, or reflecting on your year?

  • Do you set intentions on your birthday?
  • What’s one thing you’re proud of from your last 12 months?

Come chat with us. Leave a comment on Instagram or message us with your reflections. We absolutely love hearing from you.

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How to Use Your Birthday as a Personal Reset (Instead of January)

How to Use Your Birthday as a Personal Reset (Instead of January)

Becky Ashton and Laura Horsburgh