Hey there, friend—
As humans, we love the idea of fresh starts. A new year, a new project, a new relationship—they all promise a clean slate. But here’s the truth:
If you haven’t resolved what’s unfinished in your life, it won’t stay in the past. It will follow you, showing up in different forms, again and again.
This isn’t about blame. It’s about patterns—unresolved emotions, unhealed wounds, and incomplete endings that subtly influence the energy we bring into new beginnings.
So, let me ask you:
- What haven’t you brought to completion?
- And, just as importantly, how have you ended things?
How You End Things Matters
The way you end one chapter sets the tone for how you begin the next.
If a relationship ended with avoidance, resentment, or dishonesty, that energy will find its way into your next connection. If you left a job in a whirlwind of frustration or haste, those emotions may color your next role.
Every unresolved emotion, unspoken word, or unprocessed experience is like packing extra baggage for a trip. No matter where you go, it comes with you—until you take the time to unpack it, reconcile your inner wounds, and heal what created them.
Why This Happens
Unfinished business stays with us because it lives in the subconscious mind. Even when we think we’ve moved on, the unresolved emotions and patterns remain beneath the surface, shaping our decisions and experiences.
If you’ve noticed the same challenges repeating in your life—whether in relationships, career, or personal growth—it’s not a coincidence. As they say, if the same thing keeps happening, it’s your stuff. This is your sign that something deeper needs your attention.
Reflection Prompts: What Needs Closure?
Take a moment to reflect on these questions:
- What feels incomplete in your life?
- Is there a relationship, project, or chapter that still weighs on your heart or mind?
- What patterns keep showing up?
- Are there recurring dynamics in your relationships or career that feel familiar but frustrating?
- How have you ended significant experiences?
- Did you approach the ending with care, or did you rush through it to escape discomfort?
- What would closure look like for you?
- What would it take to resolve this experience and create space for something new?
Why You Haven’t Done This Yet
You’re not alone if these questions feel overwhelming. Many people avoid addressing unresolved patterns because it feels messy, uncomfortable, or simply too big to tackle on their own.
In some cases, they’re afraid of how addressing these issues will affect their relationships and their lifestyle, should certain relationships be brought to completion.
But here’s the thing: avoiding it doesn’t make it go away. It only ensures that it will resurface—in your next relationship, your next project, or your next year.
You Don’t Have to Do This Alone
The process of bringing closure to the past and stepping into a new chapter with clarity and peace requires more than willpower. It requires tools, practices, and insights that go beyond surface-level solutions.
This is where my work comes in.
Through shadow work, subconscious reprogramming, and personal growth practices, I help women like you uncover and heal the hidden patterns that hold them back.
Together, we’ll identify the unresolved pieces in your life, release what no longer serves you, and create a foundation for lasting transformation.
Whether you’re rebuilding after a big transition, healing emotional wounds, or stepping into the next level of your growth, there’s a way to create real closure and clear the energy for a fresh start.
It’s Time To Do Things Differently—Because You’re Worth It
The truth is, healing takes courage. It’s a decision to stop running from the past and start building a future that aligns with who you truly are.
It also requires a deeply committed investment of your time, your energy, and resources to get you from where you are right now to where you want to be.
Every ending holds an opportunity—a chance to release the past and consciously create the future. The work of bringing closure is not always easy, but it is always worth it.
If you’re ready to break free from old patterns and step into the life you know you’re meant to live, I’m here to guide you.
Click here to explore how we can work together and begin your journey toward deep emotional healing and personal growth.
The new beginning you’ve been searching for starts with healing the past that you may not even realize still haunts you.
Here’s to powerful endings and even brighter beginnings.
Love,
Tris
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An International Bestselling Author, Lifestyle and Leadership Coach and speaker, Tris Thorp is one of today’s leading experts in the field of personal growth and leadership development, specializing in emotional healing, women’s empowerment and shadow work.
Having spent a decade traveling the world, being trained by and sharing the stage with Dr. Deepak Chopra in the field of social emotional learning, consciousness and mindfulness-based practices, Tris has a real gift for integrating the ancient spiritual teachings with modern-day science and mindfulness to help people all over the world let go of their past and create an empowered new future.
During her tenure at the Chopra Center, Tris apprenticed under the Chopra Center’s co-founder Dr. David Simon, co-facilitating the Healing the Heart and Emotional Freedom workshops alongside him. Prior to his passing in 2012, Dr. Simon appointed Tris as the person to carry on his teachings in the field of emotional healing. In addition, Tris was fortunate to be mentored by the late Debbie Ford prior to her passing in 2013, which is where she continued her extensive studies of the unconscious mind and concepts of the persona and shadow. After the loss of her two mentors, Tris went on to become certified through the Ford Institute as a coach specializing in Shadow Work and reconciling mental and emotional issues stemming from past experiences. She continues to share the gifts of emotional healing and facilitating this work in the footsteps of her former mentors.
Tris is the International bestselling author of Healing Your Heart: Rewrite Your Story with Awareness and Intention. A guide book to understanding your emotions, how we create our story and workable tools and techniques to heal from the past, Healing Your Heart stewards you through the process of releasing mental and emotional baggage, forgiving yourself and others, setting and enforcing boundaries and consciously communicating your needs in a loving and effective way so you can be who you’re meant to be, do the things you want to do and have all that you deserve to have in this life.
Tris is also the co-author of bestseller Mental and Emotional Release® with Dr. Matt James. Written in a language both professionals and non-professionals can understand, Mental and Emotional Release® offers real life case studies, an overview of MER and its foundation, step by step scripts to follow, and clinical efficacy studies comparing MER to other therapies.
Clearly in her dharma, Tris’s passion and dedication to gently guide people on their inward journey through personal growth is evident in her work as a Lifestyle and Leadership coach, Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release and workshop facilitator. She teaches various courses on leadership development, personal empowerment, social emotional learning and higher states of consciousness – both in online courses and her certification programs, live workshops, VIP retreats and 1-1 clients.
Tris Thorp is Board Certified by the Association of Integrative Psychology as a Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release ®, Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, and Mental and Emotional Release ®, a Certified Reiki Master, and an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.
Tris is devoted to inspiring and empowering others to cultivate and maintain mindfulness-based lifestyle practices that lead to greater clarity, purpose and fulfillment. Through one-on-one coaching, online programs and live events, Tris specializes in helping people to fully release negative emotions, limiting beliefs and unconscious patterns, enabling them to make quantum leaps into the life they are truly meant to be living.