EP 612: Pt. 1 After a Hard Year: 10 Questions to Reflect on the Lessons of 2025
Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice
Dr. Morgan Anderson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
2025 was a lot. Maybe it pushed you in ways you didn’t expect—relationships, work, health, family, you name it. And now you’re looking ahead to 2026, hoping for something different. In this first episode of my three-part series, we’re doing the deep, intentional work of reflecting on your year so you can step into the next one with clarity, purpose, and self-compassion. Get ready to uncover the emotional themes of your year, identify patterns that no longer serve you, and start planting the seeds for the most empowered version of yourself in 2026.
Inside the episode:
- Discover the emotional themes that shaped your year and celebrate the moments you’re proud of.
- Identify the patterns, limiting beliefs, and comfort-zone traps holding you back from growth.
- Learn practical ways to shift your energy toward life-giving people, habits, and relationships.
10 Questions We Explore in This Episode:
- What were some of the emotional themes of 2025?
- What were you proud of yourself for this year?
- What beliefs, habits or thought patterns do you need to let go of to become the next version of you?
- Are there patterns that you're ready to break?
- Who drained you, and who gave you energy?
- What do you repeatedly say to yourself that is actually shaping your identity in a bad way?
- What did you do this year because it was comfortable and familiar, not because it felt good?
- What did 2025 teach you about what you don't want?
- If you could choose one word for 2026, what are you focusing on?
- What would it look like for you to step fully into your power?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan Anderson, psychologist, relationship coach, attachment theory expert, creator of the ESL relationship method, author of Love Magnet and Athletic Wear Connoisseur. My mission is to help you raise yourself worth, have great relationships, and step confidently into the next level of your life. |
| 0:21.6 | Each week, two episodes will air featuring expert advice, live coaching, and tips, showing |
| 0:27.6 | you exactly how to improve your life and attract a healthy relationship. |
| 0:31.6 | You deserve to feel empowered, secure, and love. |
| 0:35.8 | Buckle up and Let's Get Vulnerable. Welcome to the Let's Get Vulnerable |
| 0:43.1 | podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan. I'm so excited about this three-part series that I am bringing |
| 0:49.8 | to you this week. Today is part one. And we've got part two dropping Wednesday and part three on |
| 0:56.6 | Friday. This is such an important time of year. This is when we pause and we reflect and we get |
| 1:06.4 | very intentional about the year that lies ahead. And I knew that I wanted to bring you something |
| 1:12.6 | that would help you go through that reflection process with intention so that you can really |
| 1:19.4 | intentionally step into 2026. So I'm calling this series after a hard year because I have talked to so many of you where |
| 1:31.6 | 2025 really kicked your butt and it was really challenging. And you are in this place of, |
| 1:38.7 | okay, 2026 has to be different. And I don't know if this was like a collective experience, but it just seems |
| 1:48.0 | like so many people really struggled this year, whether it was with relationships, |
| 1:55.0 | finances, health, family dynamics. I could go on and on and on. But this has been a hard year for so many |
| 2:04.0 | people. And I just want you to know that if you're in that place where you're worn out, |
| 2:09.2 | you're exhausted, you're going, oh my gosh, I can't do this again in 2026. You are in the right |
| 2:17.3 | place. We're going to talk about moving through the end of this year with intention and then starting to really get into identity work and what does it look like to embody a different version of you in 2026? Because so many of you have tried beating yourselves up, |
| 2:37.2 | being super strict about what you're supposed to do and not do and trying to change your |
| 2:42.3 | behaviors. But what doesn't change is your identity. So when you actually want real change that lasts, we have to go deep enough. |
| 2:55.4 | In today's episode, this is where we get started with awareness. Awareness is the beginning of |
| 3:01.9 | everything, right? We're going to go over some questions that will help you really, really look at what happened in |
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