What a Year We’ve Had! Let Us Count the Ways...
Hey there, hi there, Happy New Year!
What a year! We had it all — the good, the bad, the inspired and the ugly.
(And so did you, I’ll bet.)
Somehow, we got stuff done — sometimes despite the pandemic, and sometimes because of it.
To wit:
We’ve expanded our reach to 92 countries and all 50 states — with California once again topping the list as our biggest fan. (North Dakota and South Dakota are bringing up the rear, but hey, someone’s gotta do it.)
And who would have guessed our top audio of the year? Healthful Sleep has once again dominated both app streams and website purchases for the year, making it the uncontested champion for the 18th year in a row. (We are of course thrilled and honored to be so much fun to sleep with. :) )
General Bestsellers:
- Healthful Sleep
- Anxiety & Panic
- Successful Surgery
- N.O.W. Tone Therapy System
- Healing Trauma
- Relaxation & Wellness
- Healthy Immune System
- Relieve Stress
- Fight Cancer
- Ease Pain
Top Tracks on the App:
- Healthful Sleep
- Self-Compassion during Sleep
- Healthy Immune System
- Successful Surgery
- White Noise
- Self-Esteem During Sleep
- Three Stages for Healing Trauma
- Anxiety & Panic
- Creating Positive Change
- General Wellness
Top New Releases:
- Releasing Shame, Embracing Self-Worth
- Resisting & Preventing Viral Infection
- Overcoming Viral Infection
NEW! Most Watched Videos on YouTube:
- N.O.W. Tone Therapy with Belleruth Naparstek
- Ask BR: COVID-19
- Dr. Emmett Miller on His New Guided Meditation: Releasing Shame; Embracing Self-Worth
- New Research Shows Simple Meditation Can Outperform a Standard V.A. Trauma Therapy – Part 2
- Ask BR: New Anti-Viral Infection Guided Meditation, Freebies, and Meditations to Keep Calm
And, in case you missed ‘em, our top blogs for 2020 reflect our year together:
- Ask BR: What Do You Recommend to Help Calm Nerves About the Coronavirus?
- 8 Tips From an Introvert on How to Stay Home
- New Anti-Viral Guided Imagery is Here!
- The Key to Healing Shame; And How It's Profoundly Different from Guilt
- Simple Meditation Techniques Outperform Favorite V.A. Trauma Therapies in 2 Recent Randomized Controlled Research Studies
- Healing Trauma After a Scary Illness and Its Scary Treatment
- Interpersonal Awkwardness and the Six-Foot Distance Rule
- The Universal Stages of Disaster, and Where We Are Now
- When Is Guided Imagery Safe for Trauma Survivors, and When Is It Triggering?
- 9 Self-Care Tips to Counter Election Fatigue
What’s the biggest news of the year?
- We produced two terrific new meditations by Emmett Miller, MD to address COVID, one designed specifically to help with prevention, and the other to boost recovery, using expert consultation from our epidemiologist, virologist, and immunologist friends, to ensure the content is right, realistic, and responsible. Both Resisting & Preventing Viral Infection and Overcoming Viral Infection were welcomed with robust enthusiasm.
- We finally launched a longstanding dream: a brand-new library of 8 Spanish audios of exquisite quality (with more on the way), thanks to one amazing holistic health nurse-coach named Caroline Ortiz, MPH MSN RN NC-BC.
The current topics so far are:
- Relajación y Bienestar (Relaxation and Wellness)
- Aliviando la Depresión (Relieve Depression)
- Un Sueño Saludable (Healthful Sleep)
- Aliviar Una Dolorosa Pérdida (Ease Grief)
- Bienvenida a Una Nueva Medicina (Embracing a New Medicine)
- Una Cirugía Exitosa (Successful Surgery)
- Fortaleza Para La Persona con Diabetes (Manage Diabetes)
- Reduce La Ansiedad Y El Pánico (Anxiety and Panic)
- Our app nearly tripled its subscriptions as we added new titles, features, & functionalities. We’re sure that the fact that it offers so much content to support mental health and emotional resilience during this difficult year was a big reason for its popularity.
- We built a free guided imagery jukebox for the general public, offering a new meditation for adults and kids each day, to help with stress relief, anxiety, grief, trauma and depression.
- We finished taping a 10-hour evergreen guided imagery video training course for the V.A. and any one of its 413,000 employees who’s interested, whether they want to learn about it for themselves or for the Veterans in their care.
- We doubled the number of customized streaming pages built for hospitals and private practices, and tripled the number of pages for businesses and corporations.
- And we were honored and delighted to make free streaming pages for first responders, nurses, ER doctors and yes, even overwhelmed funeral homes.
So, what comes next?
Stay tuned for new features and options in our app (we’re testing them as you read this, in fact), a new Spanish Series release of guided imagery for diabetes (and more to come), plus some pretty cool updates to our customized streaming pages — both to the pages themselves, and to their analytics.
And after you’ve had your fill of eggnog, champagne, and party hats, come on back in the New Year for the official launch of Traci Stein’s Manifesting Your Future Self During Deep Sleep — complete with subtle but powerful binaural beats — that uses the magical workings of sleep and dreams to help cohere and manifest wishes for 2021. (And as no surprise to those familiar with her work, it’s already getting rave reviews.)
Stay safe, take care, and be well, Good People — we’ll see you in 2021!
