EP 614: If 2025 Didn’t Change, 2026 Has To: 6 Shifts That Break Old Patterns for Good
Let’s Get Vulnerable: Relationship and Dating Advice
Dr. Morgan Anderson
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
If you’re looking back on 2025 feeling frustrated, discouraged, or quietly disappointed that the same patterns showed up again, this episode is for you. This is the conversation I wish I had heard during some of the hardest New Year seasons of my life. In today’s episode, I walk you through the real shifts that actually change your life, not surface-level resolutions, not hustle, not forcing yourself to “try harder,” but the foundational inner work that breaks cycles and creates lasting change. If you know, deep down, that 2026 has to be different, let’s talk about how to make that happen in a grounded, compassionate, and sustainable way.
Inside the episode:
- Why support, self-compassion, and identity work, not willpower, are the keys to breaking repeated patterns
- How taking intentional space (including a break from dating) can reset your nervous system and change how you show up
- The mindset shift that makes real change inevitable: feeling the cost of staying the same and choosing differently
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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 |
| 0:43.0 | Vulnerable podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Morgan. I am so excited about this episode. This is the |
| 0:49.6 | episode that I needed around the New Year's time. Many, many years. There are many, many years that I would |
| 0:58.7 | have benefited from this episode. So I'm recording this for those of you who are feeling kind of blah. |
| 1:06.0 | You're looking back on your year. There's things that you are so frustrated about, things that you said |
| 1:11.9 | it was going to be different in 2025, but it stayed the same. You're fed up. You're not where |
| 1:18.6 | you want to be. And there are so many areas of your life that this applies to, whether it's |
| 1:24.1 | finances, your physical health, of course, your relationship life. |
| 1:32.0 | There's every area of your life that this applies to. |
| 1:35.4 | If you're looking back on 2025 and you are saying yourself, |
| 1:39.5 | 2026 has to be different. |
| 1:43.0 | I cannot repeat the things that happened in 2025. This episode is for you. |
| 1:50.0 | And this is not some overwhelming 50-point list. I am going to give you the six things that will make a difference. |
| 1:59.8 | These are so simple, yet not always easy. And when you |
| 2:06.2 | implement these things, your life will change and patterns will break. So I, once again, I'm making |
| 2:12.1 | this for you because I know that there's a lot of you during this time of year. You're beating |
| 2:17.4 | yourselves up. You're feeling stuck. You're beating yourselves up. |
| 2:18.7 | You're feeling stuck. |
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