What if January isn’t the time to sprint, but the time to listen? We step into winter as a threshold, an intentional pause where rest becomes action and receiving becomes strategy. Instead of forcing resolutions against bare trees and short days, we explore how aligning with the season strengthens intuition, steadies the nervous system, and lays the groundwork for a more authentic year.

Nikki unpacks the tension between society’s push for instant reinvention and nature’s quiet cadence. We revisit Ayurvedic wisdom and circadian rhythms, talk about creating white space in a culture that rewards constant output, and share how to train your body to feel safe in stillness. You’ll learn why “slow is the honest pace,” how to spot the hidden costs of overriding winter (burnout, shame-based goals, lost intuition), and simple practices that shift your state: buffer your schedule, take phone-free walks, savor grounding foods, and protect the morning theta window for soft visualization.

This is a season to let desire mature without measuring output. Think of January as a holding pattern that consolidates nine years of learning and readies you for spring’s clean momentum. We offer reflective questions to guide your integration, and gentle rituals—from mirror affirmations to fireside pauses—that build a foundation of warmth, presence, and self-trust. Choose stillness before strategy and watch your plans root deeper, your energy refine, and your path clarify without the push.

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Episode Links

• S2, E113: Closing 2025 With Gratitude, Numerology, And Magic: A Collective Reflection
• S1, E45: Embracing the Spring Equinox: Why January 1st Isn't the Real New Year

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The calendar says go, but your body says pause. We open the year by treating January as a threshold—an intentional space to soften urgency, restore trust, and let clarity rise from quiet. Coach Alyssa Simpson joins Lizzy and we get practical about building an abundant life that doesn’t cost your nervous system: identity-first manifestation, cycle-led planning, and boundaries that hold when life gets loud.

Alyssa shares the moments that pushed her to end people pleasing and own her energy leaks—family tensions, client friction, even a car accident—then maps how small, consistent habits cue a wealthier identity. We dig into the be-do-have model, why instant gratification derails sustainable change, and how rest is not a reward but a core mechanism of manifestation. If you’ve ever tried to out-hustle the universe, this is your permission to try trust instead.

We also challenge hustle culture in entrepreneurship. Many of us still run our businesses inside rigid, masculine structures and wonder why we’re exhausted. We talk about leading from feminine energy—setting the tone, keeping meaningful white space, and letting money and operations follow. You’ll hear concrete ways to align your calendar with your hormone cycle, ask for support at home without drama, and reorient goals around what 80-year-old you will bless you for. Alyssa’s Restfully Rich program invites high-capacity women to rebuild success from embodiment, presence, and true receiving.

If January feels slow, heavy, or uncertain, you’re not behind—you’re right on time. Press play to trade pressure for presence, refine who you’re becoming, and design a year that grows from rest, not rush. If this conversation resonates, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs a gentler start to the year, and leave a review to help more listeners find us.

Episode Links

• MZC Practitioner Collective: Alyssa Simpson
• S1/EP.36: Manifesting Abundance: Transforming Money Mindsets and Embracing Feminine Power with Alyssa Simpson
• Daysy - Your Personal Fertility Tracker

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What if the chaos you’re feeling is actually the pressure that shapes you into something clearer, kinder, and stronger? We open a protected space, call in guidance, and receive a January 2026 Arcturian transmission that repeats one unwavering truth: all is not lost. From there, we unpack why heavy emotions rise now, how unprocessed energy turns sticky, and why life keeps surfacing what’s ready to be healed.

We explore two vivid archetypes: one raised with transparency, rituals, and room for emotion; the other taught to avoid hard truths and silence their voice. These paths create very different reactions to global noise. Together we practice detachment without numbness, feeling without fusing, and the art of “surfing the wave” from the solar plexus, so that headlines and timelines don’t hijack our center. We talk soul contracts, chosen challenges, and the steady march toward a more truthful “new earth” that prizes coherence, integrity, and compassion.

You’ll leave with simple tools: gratitude as a daily baseline, awareness as 90% of healing, and protective visualization using white diamond light. We share mantras like “Peace begins with me,” and invite you to call on whatever guidance speaks your language - saints, angels, the Arcturians, God, the universe. Most importantly, we ground into a practical promise: when you heal yourself, you lift the field around you. Your steadiness is palpable. Your presence is medicine.

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Start the year without the sprint. We invite you into January as a threshold—a quiet space between what has ended and what’s still becoming—so you can begin not with pressure, but with presence. Instead of chasing clarity, we guide you to feel supported, breathe deeper, and listen for what’s already unfolding beneath the surface.

We start with a gentle reset: find a supportive position, notice the weight of your body, and let gravity hold more of you. With slow inhales and lengthened exhales, the nervous system shifts toward ease. Then we move into an earth-rooted visualization, extending “roots” from feet, hips, and back into steady, dark soil. This winter-paced imagery helps release urgency, increase interoception, and cultivate the kind of stability that makes decisions clearer and commitments sustainable. Softening the shoulders and jaw, you’ll feel stress patterns loosen while the breath cues safety from the inside out.

Across the practice, we trade hustle for regulation and replace self-critique with trust. You’ll hear gentle reminders like “you’re not behind” and “you don’t need a plan,” not as slogans, but as nervous system medicine that lets you meet the year on honest terms. We close with a simple affirmation—“I am supported even when I am still”—to anchor the lesson that rest is not a reward; it’s a resource. If January has felt like a starting gun, this session offers another way: rooted, steady, and ready when your inner timing says yes.

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The calendar says “go,” but your body whispers “wait.” Join Lizzy as we open the new year by reframing January as a threshold, a tender doorway between what ended in 2025 and what hasn’t fully revealed itself in 2026. Instead of forcing instant clarity, we explore how rest, curiosity, and shorter planning cycles create steadier momentum and more aligned choices.

You’ll hear how a season of endings can linger into the new year and why that’s not a problem to fix. She talks honestly about the emotional residue of the holidays, the relief and grief that travel together, and the nervous system’s need to integrate before new goals make sense. Lizzy also digs into a practical strategy: swapping rigid year-long goals for six-month horizons that match the pace of real life. When time feels faster and change stacks quickly, that shift can turn pressure into progress. She shares a personal story of rapid change, a cross-state move that happened so fast there was no goodbye party, and how unceremonious endings still deserve ceremony.

Lizzy then offers gentle ways to live inside the in-between: track what pulls your energy without committing yet, name what’s complete even if it isn’t resolved, and let clarity arrive in quiet moments. We close out with reflection prompts to carry into your week and an invitation to go deeper.

If you’re craving a slower, saner start to the year, this conversation is your cue to pause at the doorway and listen for what’s true. Subscribe, share this episode with a friend who needs permission to rest, and leave a review with the one decision you’re choosing not to rush.

Episode Links

• Align with Jenna Zoe: Ep. 169: Becoming > Manifesting

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Lizzy & Nikki close 2025 by challenging the January reset, honoring winter’s slower rhythm, & tracing the real magic that showed up when we stopped forcing timelines. From crossing 100 episodes to building a trusted Practitioner Collective, we share how vetted healers, grounded practices, and thoughtful curation shaped a year that felt both expansive and sane.

We get candid about the pivots: shelving a membership, pausing an app after months of work, and choosing to pour our energy into what resonated most—this podcast. That shift opened space for richer interviews, monthly Arcturian channelings, and reflection guides that turn listening into action. Along the way, we compare two versions of magic. One of us leaned into a numerology personal year seven—deep spiritual work, Reiki growing by word of mouth, intuitive practices that nourished from the inside out. The other stepped into a nomad dream with kids and dogs, followed serendipity into “mailbox money” opportunities like RV parks, and let aligned communities form in unexpected rooms.

We talk numerology (universal nine to one), manifestation without burnout, ego detachment in partnerships, and why “being the one” matters less than being the most you in the room. Expect practical takeaways—set intentions by season, vet your mentors, prune projects that drain you, and anchor your day with breath, presence, and simple rituals. Your energy shapes the journey—let’s make space for what’s ready to arrive.

Episode Links

• S1, E45: Why 1/1 Isn't the New Year
• Rebecca Glick's 3-part series: S1, E58 - Hidden Toxins; S1, E63 - Elimination Diets; S1, E71 - Sleep
• S1, E20: 2025 & Universal Year 9
• You Are Cosmic Code, by Kaitlyn Kaerhart
• Becoming Supernatura

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The world moves fast, but your body knows another rhythm. We invited our Arizona-based practitioner Marney Henze, to guide a gentle, grounding practice that helps you step out of urgency, lengthen your exhale, and rediscover a steadier pace within. Across this calm reset, we explore how breath, posture, and simple attention can soften stress and bring you back to the only place life happens: right here, right now.

We begin by easing the nervous system with a practical technique—inhale for a comfortable count, exhale a little longer. That small shift signals safety, quiets mental noise, and makes room for clarity. From there, we scan for tension where it hides most—jaw, belly, and shoulders—releasing effort without collapsing. As the body softens, presence returns, and even the mundane becomes meaningful. Washing dishes, making the bed, brushing your teeth—each routine turns into a mindful checkpoint that anchors focus and steadies your mood.

Together, we also challenge the pressure to “keep up.” What pace are we matching, and at what cost? By questioning that reflex, we find a more honest tempo that supports clear priorities and compassionate self-talk. The result isn’t less ambition; it’s better alignment. You leave with a portable calm: a way to bring softness into your next breath, your next moment, your next task, and a reminder you’re not behind—you’re right on time.

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What if sacred space wasn’t a room but a feeling you could carry anywhere—through snowstorms, long drives, and the beautiful chaos of raising kids? Lizzy sits down with Angelica Grace, a Shamanic practitioner and cacao facilitator, to trace how small, nature-led actions mature into embodied rituals that keep a family grounded through change.

We begin with reciprocity and presence: watching snowfall as a prayer, listening to trees as a practice, offering thanks as a daily muscle. Angelica explains how Shamanic traditions from the Americas shaped her path, and why she treats plants as partners rather than props. Cacao takes center stage as a heart medicine that builds an inner sanctuary—vital for those healing trauma, living on the road, or craving a reliable anchor. The message lands clearly: intuition isn’t elusive; it’s the quiet ping you honor in the moment, whether that’s choosing Palo Santo over tobacco or stepping outside to meet the fire.

Motherhood reframes everything. Meditation shifts from silent rooms to shared rituals by the backyard flame, tiny hands offering twigs, and kids hugging trees. We talk about inviting children into ceremony, barefoot grounding, and seeding a lifelong bond with nature. The practical payoff shows up in communication, steadier nervous systems, and a happier home. Looking to 2026, we name “being seen” as the next threshold—taking ceremonies on the road, writing as devotion, and trusting that one true insight can change a life more than a hundred half-used tips.

If you’ve felt stretched thin or spiritually scattered, this conversation offers grounded tools you can use today: a cup of cacao as a daily threshold, a five-minute gratitude pause, a small fire or candle to practice listening.

Episode Links

• Season 1, Episode 61: Sacred Cacao: Heart Medicine for Modern Times with Angelica Grace
• Find out more about Angelica Grace on the ModernZen Practitioner Collective
• Connect with Angelica Grace on IG @angelicagracec

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