Episode 22: Why Choosing Yourself Feels So Scary (ft. Judith Manriquez)

When you don't choose yourself, you feel awful. Not eventually. All the time. My friend Judith said that to me in a session, and I haven't stopped thinking about it since.

Judith Manriquez is a spiritual and intuitive business mentor I met through The Nova, our women's entrepreneur group here in Phoenix. She recently walked me through my own Human Design and astrology in a session that gave me a completely new level of clarity, and this episode is us picking up that conversation on mic.

We talk about the real difference between self-care and choosing yourself as strategy. Self-care, to Judith, is physical. Choosing yourself is soul-level, and self-care is often just an unconscious attempt to support that deeper choice. We get into why your 40s tend to surface every micro-compromise you made without realizing it, and why that discomfort isn't a sign something's wrong, it's your soul catching up to your life.

Judith also breaks down what not choosing yourself actually costs, in health, in relationships, in business, and gives her simplest tool for telling real intuition apart from an old trauma response dressed up as a gut feeling.

In this episode: the real difference between self-care and choosing yourself as strategy, why your 40s bring up every compromise you've made without realizing it, what not choosing yourself actually costs in health, relationships, and business, how to separate real intuition from a trauma response, Judith's simplest tool for decision-making.

Curious what your body's been trying to tell you underneath all that responsibility? Grab the free Why Am I So Tired? checklist at annievinje.com. When you're ready for more support, a Feel Good Strategy Session is 60 minutes, $147, and it starts with the right questions.