237 - Powerful Lessons From This Year – Relationships, Loneliness, & Self-Worth

Life Happens with Barb & Michelle

Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt

Self-improvement, Parenting, Society & Culture, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Education, Mental Health, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Growth doesn’t happen all at once. It happens in honest moments, hard conversations, and small shifts we make every day. If you’ve been feeling disconnected, uncertain, or like you’re never quite enough, this conversation is for you.

In this week’s episode of Life Happens with Barb & Michelle, we’re reflecting on some of the most meaningful moments from our podcast this year. Together, we revisit powerful conversations on navigating conflict in relationships, the loneliness epidemic, self-doubt, body image, and the quiet practices that help us come home to ourselves.

This episode is a reminder that you’re not alone and that real growth begins with awareness, compassion, and presence.

✨ In this episode, we explore powerful moments from past conversations, including:

Navigating heated arguments with honesty and compassion — from Why Your Relationships Aren’t Working (And How Hard Conversations Can Help)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u88XpgOMGqA&t
Why loneliness is rising and how to reconnect with yourself in a disconnected world — from Loneliness Is Killing Us (Connected but Disconnected)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWZ1ij3Ii7Y
Moving through self-doubt to rebuild confidence and clarity by trusting your intuition — from Self-Doubt Ends Here | Leaning Into Your Intuition and Inner Voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UHQ1vas5_U&t
Understanding body image and why true confidence comes from within—not external validation — from Why We Think We’re Not Enough: The Truth About Body Image & Confidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKOFVr5HQ2Q

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0:00.0	Hi friends. My mom and I want to wish you a very happy and healthy holiday season.
0:06.0	We're so thankful for the support we've received in 2025 from reaching over 200,000 subscribers on YouTube to becoming a bestseller and US and Canada.
0:17.0	This year has been a dream come true for me thanks to this community. If you haven't
0:22.4	already, subscribe to our channel to never miss an episode and I'd love to hear in the comments
0:26.9	one thing that you're grateful for this year. Every comment, like, and subscription means the world
0:32.9	to us. As we close out this year, we want to share some highlights from our favorite episodes.
0:38.5	These are moments that were personal and powerful lessons we've learned.
0:42.3	And we hope they can inspire you as we move forward into 2026 together.
0:47.3	Enjoy and thanks for being here.
0:50.5	You and I were talking before we started recording just about feelings in general and getting to the crux of the feelings for anything, but especially in our relationships, is key.
1:01.0	So what is it that's at the bottom or at the root of these feelings that we're having in our relationships that's maybe causing us to avoid or make quick judgments to, you know,
1:13.2	just detach and not deal with it.
1:15.5	You know, I'll go to a situation that you and I had recently.
1:18.7	I think that would be a really good way to explain.
1:22.6	I like when you mine our trauma for the episode.
1:26.3	Explain what I'm feeling. So you and I had a major, major, major
1:31.3	episode happened in our relationship. Can I say something? Yes. This was a big one. And for everyone
1:36.4	that still thinks that maybe we don't fight or we're perfect, we do. And even when we think we've
1:42.3	reached a point of healing on a topic, like we've talked about
1:44.9	healing is a journey, not a destination, it's like a whack-a-mole. It pops back up again.
1:50.0	Definitely. And it's normal. And I think that it goes to the crux of this episode and the idea
1:54.3	of hard conversations, because I think what happened for us, we had a major episode happen
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