159: 2026: The Year of Lighter Living, Soul Remembrance, and Collapsing Time with Alicia Isaacs Howes

What if 2026 isn’t asking you to become someone new, but to remember who you already are?

In this powerful first episode of 2026 on Mystical Sisterhood®, host Maureen Spielman is joined by longtime friend, mentor, and returning guest Alicia Isaacs Howes for a soul-level conversation about remembrance, completion, and the energy unfolding in the year ahead.

Together, Maureen and Alicia explore why 2025 acted as a year of deep completion and shedding, how old emotional “echoes” surface so they can finally be loved and integrated, and why compassion isn’t something you practice, it’s something you are. This episode reframes spiritual growth not as ascension or fixing, but as returning to wholeness.

You’ll hear reflections on soul agreements, parenting from trust instead of worry, listening to the body’s wisdom, and why 2026 carries a fast-moving, expansive energy when we stop carrying what no longer belongs to us. This conversation is a grounding reminder that clarity, desire, and momentum become available when we stop overriding ourselves and start living from truth.

This episode invites you to travel lighter, trust your yes, and allow life to move with you instead of against you.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

1. Why spiritual growth is about remembering, not becoming
2. How emotional “echoes” repeat until they’re acknowledged and loved
3. The difference between healing, fixing, and returning to wholeness
4. Why compassion is your true nature, not a tool you apply
5. How self-abandonment and people-pleasing show up in subtle ways
6. What 2025 revealed about outdated identities and structures
7. Why children and younger generations reflect presence and truth so clearly
8. How worry affects relationships energetically, even when unspoken
9. Why 2026 supports speed, clarity, and aligned momentum
10. How desire collapses time when you stop questioning your yes

We talk about:

1. 00:00 Welcome to 2026 and revisiting long-standing soul connections
2. 02:00 Soul agreements, remembrance, and spiritual friendships across lifetimes
3. 04:00 Why ascension language can distort the truth of wholeness
4. 06:00 Emotional triggers as invitations to self-awareness
5. 08:30 Recognizing divinity through awe, beauty, and wonder
6. 11:00 Seeing others’ brilliance as a mirror of your own
7. 13:30 Completion energy and collective shedding in 2025
8. 16:00 Old thought patterns, regression, and conscious re-patterning