Thank you from our Founder
As the year comes to a close, things naturally slow down and make room for reflection. Reflection is a powerful function of the mind; it’s enabled by memory, shaped by our understanding of ourselves and the world, and essential for making new connections and learning from what came before. In this final issue of Clarity in 2025, I’d like to share some of my own reflections on why I’m building Soma and how that reflection has brought me even more clarity.
At the start of this year, I founded Soma and embarked on a journey that felt intuitively right. It was the culmination of ten years spent asking deep questions about the brain and moving through healthcare with a growing sense that something fundamental was missing.
Looking back now, Soma embodies the different chapters that led me here - studying neuroscience, volunteering in hospitals, chasing interdisciplinary communities, flying across the world to pursue a Ph.D. At its core, Soma is about empowerment: over health, over performance, and over how we show up in our own lives.
While our mission was clear from the beginning, our why crystallized over time. I started Soma because we need a better way to take care of our brains. And through the process of building, I’ve realized just how important the brain is to our daily lives and longterm wellbeing. As such, brain health isn’t about perfection or peak performance every day. It’s about awareness: noticing patterns, understanding limits, and giving our minds the same care we give the rest of our bodies. This realization has shaped everything we’re building.
I’m deeply grateful to everyone who has followed along thus far and shared their questions and perspectives. You are what makes this work meaningful.
As we head into the holidays, I hope you find moments of reflection, rest, and mental ease. We’ve learned a lot this year and I can’t wait to share more on what we’ve been building in 2026.
Thank you for being here.
Jiali
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