Is it just me, or did this year feel really hard?

In this episode, Chrissy reflects on what she’s lovingly referred to as the flop that was 2025. A year with no neat buzzword, no clean arc, and a whole lot of reckoning. Between moving through a collective nine years and her own personal nine years, this was a season of endings, pauses, quiet realizations, and being forced to sit with what is actually aligned instead of what just looks good on paper.

Chrissy talks about launching FWD JOY as a podcast, learning the hard way that she cannot do everything herself, reconnecting with an ex for karmic reasons she’s still unpacking, discovering brainspotting and somatic therapy, and navigating a deep wave of self-doubt during Saturn in Pisces. She gets into friendship shifts, community dissolutions, meet cutes that didn’t go anywhere but still counted, books that genuinely changed how she sees herself, travel as both freedom and paralysis, and the strange limbo of feeling like the next phase of life is right there but not quite unlocked yet.

This episode is less about having answers and more about honoring reflection as a spiritual practice. It’s about trusting that even the quiet, confusing years are doing something important behind the scenes. If you’re feeling tender, stuck, reflective, or like you’re waiting for your life to begin again, this one’s for you. Consider this a closing chapter. Or at least a very honest footnote before 2026.

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