To usher in the new year, we asked creative people to share the homemade recipes they count on to detox, cleanse — and refresh.

“When I have my back issues, that’s really just my body screaming at me,” says the creative consultant Matilda Goad. “I always think I’m not stressed out. But it is hard being a one-man band.” Goad, 28, has gained a reputation in London thanks to her work for everyone from Shrimps (the purveyors of faux-fur coats beloved by millennials) to the traditional furniture brand Soane Britain; in February, she launched her eponymous home-goods website, which sells the scallop-edged rattan lampshade that is one of this year’s most coveted décor items.

Behind the scenes, in lieu of drawing a bath or making a cup of hot cocoa after a long day in the studio,Goad prepares a turmeric latte as part of her nightly de-stressing routine. The drink is part of her active approach to wellness to keep her stressors in check; she also schedules regular cranial osteopathy, reflexology and acupuncture sessions with thelocal Ladbroke Grove practitioners. It was a chef friend who introduced Goad to “golden milk,” a warming blend of spices and turmeric served in coconut milk that is prized for its anti-inflammatory properties. Rather than purchasing a ready-made option, Goad prefers the process of making her own homemade brew. She picks up the ingredients from the Spice Shop off Portobello Road and assembles it mostly by eye, smelling and tasting the mixture and then making adjustments.

Goad counterbalances the drink’s all-embracing soporific effect with a box-set binge (right now, the terrifying crime series “The Tunnel” is in her DVR). “It’s like a hug,” she says of sipping the evening elixir. “It switches me into a different mentality. You’re certainly not going to reply to an email after you’ve drunk this.”

Here, she shares the recipe with T.

Matilda Goad’s Turmeric and Coconut-Milk Elixir

∙ ½ a turmeric root, grated and chopped

∙ ½ teaspoon grated nutmeg

∙ ½ teaspoon dried cinnamon

∙ ½ teaspoon cardamom

∙ 1 cup coconut milk

1. Add one cup of coconut milk to a pouring pan. (Goad likes Labour & Wait’s enamel milk pan.)

2. Peel and then grate one small turmeric root, before chopping slightly and adding to the pan.

3. Grate a little nutmeg, and then add it to the pan together with the cinnamon and cardamom.

4. Keep on a low heat stirring regularly for around five minutes until slightly steaming. Do not boil as the milk will burn.