Send us a text

Ever feel like every January you set the same goals… and by February you’re right back where you started?
If you’ve ever told yourself “this is just how I am” or “I’ll try again next year,” this episode is going to gently—but powerfully—challenge that belief.

In today’s episode, MaryAnn explores why New Year’s resolutions don’t fail because of willpower or motivation—but because of the thoughts and emotions you’ve been practicing for years. You’ll learn how your identity, habits, and results are shaped by practiced thoughts—and how shifting them can completely change your outcomes.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why your personality and temperament are not fixed—and how they’re created through practiced thoughts and emotions
• How limiting beliefs sabotage goals around food, money, weight, and relationships
• The difference between self-acceptance and staying stuck
• Why controlling your circumstances isn’t enough if you don’t change your mindset
• Empowering replacement thoughts that support lasting change
• How identity-based thinking keeps you repeating the same resolutions every year
• Why discomfort isn’t dangerous—and how it’s often a sign of growth
• How thought work can help you feel more empowered, consistent, and self-trusting

Common Limiting Beliefs That May Be Holding You Back

You’ll hear real-life examples of common thoughts like:

• “I just can’t say no to desserts.”
• “Making money is hard.”
• “I can’t lose weight.”
• “I’m just unlucky in love.”

And you’ll learn how to shift these into practice thoughts that create feelings of empowerment, possibility, self-trust, and momentum—instead of shame, helplessness, or resignation.

Challenge for the Week

Choose one limiting belief you’ve been repeating and write it down.
Then ask yourself:

• Is this a fact—or just a thought I’ve practiced?
• How does this thought make me feel?
• What is one more supportive thought I could practice instead?

Practice the new thought daily—not to make it instantly believable, but to build awareness and emotional resilience.

Work With Me

If this episode sparked something for you and you’re curious about the thoughts that may be quietly holding you back, I’d love to support you.

I offer six-week and twelve-week coaching packages designed to help you:

• Break free from people-pleasing and self-doubt
• Build self-trust and emotional clarity
• Set boundaries without guilt
• Create goals that actually stick

You can book a free 30-minute clarity call here: https://calendly.com/maryannwalkerlife/freeconsult

Don’t Forget to Subscribe

This month is all about goal setting, mindset shifts, and boundaries, including:

• An upcoming interview with boundary coach and author Kami Orange
• A powerful episode on 10 things to stop doing—and 10 things to start doing—to create more peace and joy

Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss what’s coming next.

Links Mentioned in This Episode

• Book a free clarity call: https://calendly.com/maryannwalkerlife/freeconsult
• Subscribe to my newsletter for weekly support and connection & receive a FREE gift! https://maryannwalker-life.kit.com/fbd72512dd

Send us a text

Your Personality Isn’t Who You Are — It’s What You’ve Practiced

What if the parts of your personality you struggle with aren’t “just who you are”… but simply habits you’ve practiced for a long time?

As we step into a new year, many highly sensitive people and recovering people-pleasers feel both hopeful and discouraged — wanting change, but quietly wondering if real transformation is actually possible. In this episode, MaryAnn shares a powerful and freeing concept inspired by Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza: your temperament is not fixed — it’s a practiced emotional state.

Together, we explore how your thoughts create your moods, how repeated moods shape your personality, and most importantly, how you can intentionally practice new emotional patterns that support the life and relationships you truly want.

In this New Year episode, we’re breaking down the difference between mood and temperament, and why understanding this distinction can be one of the most empowering tools for personal growth, emotional healing, and lasting change.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• The difference between a temporary mood and a long-practiced temperament
• How your personality is shaped by the thoughts you practice most often
• Why you are not stuck — just well-practiced
• How unconscious emotional habits influence relationships, health, and self-worth
• Real-life examples of how shifting thoughts can transform:
  • Friendships and social connection
  • Marriage and family dynamics
  • Overwhelm, burnout, and self-care
• Why identifying your practiced emotional state is the first step toward meaningful change
• How curiosity, gratitude, and consistency can reshape your identity over time

Challenge for the Week:

Take a few moments each day to observe your thoughts without judgment.

Ask yourself:

• Where does my mind go when I’m not intentionally thinking?
• What emotions do these thoughts create?
• How do those emotions influence how I show up with others — and with myself?

Then ask:

Remember: your temperament is not your identity — it’s simply a pattern you’ve rehearsed.

Work With Me

If this episode resonated with you and you’re ready to stop repeating emotional patterns that no longer serve you, you don’t have to figure this out alone.

I currently have a few openings available and offer six-week coaching packages designed to help you:

• Identify the thoughts shaping your current experience
• Shift emotional habits that keep you stuck
• Build a more supportive inner dialogue
• Become the person you want to be — on purpose

✨ You may be surprised how much change is possible in just six weeks.

📧 Email me at maryann@maryannwalker.life

Or click here to connect: https://maryannwalker.life/contact-me — I would truly love to work with you.

Don’t Forget to Subscribe

If you found this episode helpful, make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss future conversations on emotional awareness, boundaries, self-worth, and creating healthier relationships — especially as platforms continue to change how episodes are delivered.

Links Mentioned in This Episode

• Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Dr. Joe Dispenza: https://amzn.to/4piO5vH
• Work with MaryAnn Walker: www.maryannwalker.life
  
  

✨ Your

Send us a text

Story Telling & The Meanings We Create: Separating Fact from Fiction

What if the thing that's actually upsetting you isn't what happened... but the story your mind is telling about it?

For highly sensitive people, it can feel like tone, facial expressions, silence, or subtle shifts in energy cause our emotions. But this isn't the case. In this episode, MaryAnn Walker shares one of the most freeing concepts you can learn as a recovering people-pleaser: circumstances are neutral until we assign meaning to them—and that meaning is optional.

You’ll learn how to stop emotionally reacting to imagined stories, reclaim your power, and respond to life (and relationships) with more clarity, peace, and confidence.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why circumstances are always neutral—and how thoughts create emotional pain
• How highly sensitive people become conditioned to over-interpret tone, silence, and microexpressions
• The crucial difference between facts vs. stories (and why your brain loves filling in the gaps)
• Real-life examples including:
  • A partner not texting back
  • A friend canceling plans
  • A mother-in-law’s holiday comment
  • Divorce and relationship transitions
• How confirmation bias reinforces anxiety, guilt, and people-pleasing patterns
• A powerful two-highlighter exercise to separate truth from interpretation
• Why it’s not your job to intuit what others are thinking or feeling
• How letting go of story can reduce anxiety and create more trust in relationships

Work With Me

If you’re tired of your mind creating anxiety, guilt, or emotional exhaustion—and you’re ready to feel calmer, clearer, and more grounded in your relationships—I would love to support you.

This is one of my favorite things to do in coaching: helping highly sensitive people untangle thoughts from circumstances so they can choose stories that actually support their well-being.

✨ Wanting to start the New Year off with support? Click here to apply now! https://maryannwalker.life/contact-me

Don’t Forget to Subscribe

If this episode resonated with you, make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss future conversations on emotional regulation, boundaries, anxiety relief, and healing people-pleasing patterns.

New episodes are released regularly, and subscribing ensures they show up automatically in your feed.

Links Mentioned in This Episode

• Explore 1:1 Coaching for Highly Sensitive People & Recovering People-Pleasers https://maryannwalker.life/contact-me

More Episodes to Explore:

• Facts vs Stories https://www.buzzsprout.com/2028767/episodes/11068994
• Boundaries vs Manuals: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2028767/episodes/11236956
• Holiday Manuals: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2028767/episodes/11604245

💛 You deserve to take up space—even in your own mind.