Dear 2025: The Year I Stopped Abandoning Myself

Some years are not chapters. They are initiations.

This episode is not a highlight reel. It is not a productivity review. It is a letter to the year Dr. G. Wayne stopped abandoning himself.

Recorded in a single take, this episode moves through a personal letter to 2025, the psychological truths underneath that year, and a guided reflection for listeners standing at the edge of a new chapter.

In this episode, you will hear:

• Why we train people to treat us the way they do • How the absence of boundaries becomes self-betrayal • Why misunderstanding is sometimes a choice • What it means to walk differently, not just think differently • How to choose peace over proving your point • How to carry grief without letting it harden you

The episode also includes a reverent acknowledgment of loss, including the recent discovery of a dear friend’s passing, and a quiet honoring of those who shaped this year through their absence.

It closes with a grounded nod toward 2026 as a year of embodiment, where boundaries become defaults and healing becomes a lived posture, not a performance.

If 2025 broke something open in you, this episode is for you.