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This Is the Year We Stop Abandoning Ourselves | A Nervous System Reset for 2026 · The Arise with Anita Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Rise of the Need Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome back to the Rise of the Need Up podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you've been here for a while, I want to go ahead and thank you for walking this journey and the path with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if you're new here and this is your first time listening, I just want you to know you didn't land here by accident.
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  SPEAKER_01: Before we speak about time and years or intention, I want to take a moment for us to arrive.
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  SPEAKER_01: So wherever you are right now, take a deep breath in through the nose, and a long slow exhale through the mouth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And let the breath drop into your belly.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let your shoulders soften, let your jaw clench.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I'm calling that out.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't need to do anything here.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't need to improve yourself in this moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: We are closing the final days of 2025 and stepping into the very first breaths of 2026.
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  SPEAKER_01: And transitions like this, whether we name them or not, are actually felt in the body, sometimes as excitement, sometimes as fatigue, sometimes as quiet ache we can't name.
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  SPEAKER_01: So instead of asking you what you want to accomplish in this next year, I want to ask you something a little slower.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where have you been leaving yourself behind?
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  SPEAKER_01: Self-abandonment always isn't dramatic.
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  SPEAKER_01: It doesn't always look like burnout or breakdown.
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  SPEAKER_01: Often it's subtle.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's staying in conversations that drain you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because you don't want to disappoint them.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's pushing your body past its limits and calling it discipline.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's silencing your truth because it feels easier than being misunderstood, or from my personal experience, you think it's a way of keeping your peace.
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  SPEAKER_01: Especially if you're conflict-avoidant, that might be a big one for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: But many of us have learned early that our needs were inconvenient, our emotions were too much, or our sensitivity made life a little harder.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we've adapted.
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  SPEAKER_01: But resilience without self-connection eventually becomes disconnection.
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  SPEAKER_01: And disconnection always shows up in your body, in your relationships, and the way life starts to feel heavy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing is wrong with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: You've learned how to survive.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now your body is asking for something a little different.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I want to share this gently.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was honestly a moment, many moments in my own life, where I realized I was listening to everyone else before I listened to myself.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I don't know if you've ever been in that place where I could feel something wasn't aligned, but I would override it with logic.
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  SPEAKER_01: I could sense it when my body needed rest, but I would keep going.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I told myself it was growth.
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  SPEAKER_01: I told myself it was strength.
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  SPEAKER_01: But underneath it, there was this quiet exhaustion building up that no matter how much sleep you get will not fix.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I was so disconnected from my own truth and from living what I wanted to live.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if we're being honest, a lot of people pleasing patterns that I was living other people's stories.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it became this game of betraying my own signals.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the turning point for me wasn't exactly dramatic.
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  SPEAKER_01: It became a simple question that kept coming over and over.
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  SPEAKER_01: What happens if I stop leaving myself here?
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  SPEAKER_01: What happens if I pause when my body asks?
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  SPEAKER_01: Earlier in this year, many of you know I took a fallen Sedona.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was this beautiful spiritual trip that I hadn't planned.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I had operated it much like how I was operating a lot of life, which was a checklist.
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  SPEAKER_01: I had so many things I wanted to do, and I thought I would manifest this beautiful trip.
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  SPEAKER_01: That was gonna be the next quantum leap in my little journey of my spirituality.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I was not taking a moment to pause, and I took a fall, and that fall created a false forced pause.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here I am months later, barely recovered and going to the gym again, because I was not taking the time to slow down.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the question became, what happens if I stop leaving myself here?
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  SPEAKER_01: What happens if I actually take the time to pause when my body asks?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I realized also in that moment, had I listened to the amount of times I wanted to pause, I probably wouldn't have ended up injured.
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  SPEAKER_01: What happens if I speak when my voice trembles?
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  SPEAKER_01: And I say what I need to say even when I'm scared.
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  SPEAKER_01: What happens if I choose honesty over keeping peace?
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  SPEAKER_01: These questions started to change the way I live.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not overnight, but consistently.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the more I stayed present, the less I needed to force anything.
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  SPEAKER_01: So as we step into 2026, I don't really feel the energy of reinvention.
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  SPEAKER_01: I feel more of the energy of what I call a return.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's a continuous return to the body, a return to truth, a return to self-trust, a return to my own essence.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the zero doesn't have to ask you to try harder.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's actually asking you to notice sooner.
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  SPEAKER_01: To pay attention when something feels off.
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  SPEAKER_01: To notice when your body tightens, whether that's your throat, a feeling in your gut, to notice when you're saying yes out of habit and not desire.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because the life you're building cannot be sustained if it requires you to disappear from it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Which brings me to why the next conversation after this matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: On January 1st, I'm releasing a special edition episode where I sat down with my dear friend Craig Seole for a conversation around manifestation and Kabbalah, and we talk all about embodiment.
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  SPEAKER_01: And what I appreciate about that conversation is that it doesn't skip the human experience.
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  SPEAKER_01: We talk about ego and just the way around the human journey, the soul's experience as a human, to manifesting and embodying that next level as a way of something to live from.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because if you've ever felt like growth required you to override your self, this episode is going to offer you a new lens.
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  SPEAKER_01: Before we close out, I want you to take one more breath with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Inhale through the nose and exhale slowly through the mouth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And just ask yourself without judgment, where do I need leave?
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  SPEAKER_01: Where do I leave myself most often?
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  SPEAKER_01: And what would it look like to stay just a little longer?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because you don't need a new version of you.
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  SPEAKER_01: You need your own presence, you need to remind yourself of your own essence, and you need to come home to yourself.
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  SPEAKER_01: 2026 does not require your self-sacrifice.
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  SPEAKER_01: So welcome to the year, you, me, and all the fellow ladies listening to the stop abandoning ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm so grateful you're here with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a sister, a friend, a woman you feel like needs a pause in her day-to-day.
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  SPEAKER_01: And until the next one, please like, review, comment, share this episode on social if you would like.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me know your thoughts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Feel free to DM me and let's have a conversation about what it is we're leaving behind in 2025.
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  SPEAKER_01: And until the next one, I just wanna say, you're not broken, you're not needing to be fixed.
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  SPEAKER_02: You're already stepping into alignment.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for rising with me today.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your next level is already waiting.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now go claim it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you in the next episode.