Integration: Gathering the Body’s Wisdom as the Year Comes to a Close

Author: Bianca Moeschinger

November 2025

As the year draws to a close, something inside us naturally begins to soften. The pace shifts. The body slows. The mind becomes reflective. In PEAT, we call this an integration cycle — a sacred pause where the work we’ve done throughout the year begins to settle into the deeper layers of our being.

Integration is not simply remembering what we’ve learned. Integration is embodying it — allowing the insights, shifts, and emotional releases to reorganise the way we move through life.

This final season of the year invites us to gather the wisdom living inside our tissues — the choices we’ve made, the patterns we’ve outgrown, the boundaries we’ve strengthened, the truths we’ve finally spoken. The body quietly records every part of our journey, long before the mind has the language for it.

What the Body Remembers

In psychosomatic therapy, we teach that the body keeps the score not as a burden, but as a guide. Every person who comes through our PEAT programs arrives with a story living beneath the skin — in breath, posture, tension, softness, habits, and emotional rhythm.

This year, whether you realised it or not, you lived many chapters:

• moments where you held your breath

• conversations that softened your chest

• boundaries that reshaped your spine

• insights that opened your face and eyes

• griefs that sat heavy in the belly

• awakenings that lit your entire system

Your body knows the truth of your year. Your body remembers the steps you took toward yourself.

Integration Through the PEAT Lens

Gillian and I often speak about integration as the moment your inner world catches up with the growth you’ve created. It’s the exhale after all the work. The stabilising. The embodiment.

Throughout our trainings — whether online, hybrid, or in-person — we see this moment in our students. Their eyes soften. Their posture lengthens. Their breath deepens. Something shifts internally, moving from "I’m learning this" to "I am this."

That is integration. And it is the quiet magic of psychosomatic therapy.

A Personal Reflection

This year, like every year, has been full — full of teaching, holding space, guiding, learning, and walking alongside so many of you as you committed to your own unfolding.

Gillian and I sat together recently, reflecting on how much PEAT has evolved. Not just the courses, but the depth of the work. The way students arrive seeking one thing and leave having found something far more intimate: themselves.

For me personally, it has been a year that asked for honesty, refinement, and deep embodiment. The kind of year that clarifies what matters. The kind of year the body remembers.

Stepping Into a New Year, Whole

As we transition into a new cycle, I invite you to take a moment — a real, embodied pause — and ask:

What has this year carved into me?

What have I grown through, breathed through, released, or reclaimed?

What wisdom is my body asking me to carry forward?

And what weight is it time to finally set down?

This is the heart of psychosomatics. This is the work we do together in PEAT. Not to become someone else — but to become whole.

As the year closes, let your body speak. Let your breath guide you. Let your awareness return you to yourself.

And when you're ready, step into the new year not with pressure or expectation — but with the grounded knowing that you have already done so much, learned so much, and become so much.

Integration is the bridge between who you were and who you’re becoming. And you do not walk that bridge alone.

With love,

Bianca
Co-Founder, PEAT – Psychosomatics & Emotional Anatomy Training
With Gillian Maddigan

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