Shed The Snake, Prepare to Ride the Stallion

The rush of relief after seven weeks of sixty-hour shifts sparked a bigger truth: we crave “the end,” but growth rarely wraps on our timeline. We unpack why 2025 felt like a gauntlet and why calling it “over” misses the gift—wisdom we can carry forward without dragging the weight. Think of this as a field guide to endings that don’t end you.

We start by taking every thought captive with a simple Green Room method. When a loop sneaks in—fatigue, fear, future-tripping—we don’t fuse with it. We hold it, question its source, and choose what stays. That small act turns mental noise into clarity. From there, we explore the Year of the Snake as a metaphor for shedding: relationships that no longer fit, habits that drain, identities that kept us safe but stuck. It’s tender work, especially when family ties strain, but detachment can be a form of deep love—boundary with compassion and no guilt tax.

You’ll hear how moving ego to the back seat frees your highest self to drive, and how a quick sensory reset anchors you in the present when your mind tries to sprint to 5:30. We name common Matrix programs like shame, scarcity, and blame, and show how to spot them without spiraling. Most of all, we reframe the calendar: a year’s end is neither finale nor fresh start—it’s a going on, with better gear and lighter baggage.

If you’re ready to shed the skin that no longer fits and step into 2026 with clean attention and steady heart, this is your companion. Subscribe, share with someone who needs light, and drop a comment: what skin did you shed this year?

Transcript

Relief After Seven Weeks Overtime

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Woo-hoo! It's over, baby! It's over. Seven and a half weeks of overtime, and it is now over. And I'm so excited. But that got me thinking about this year, 2025, how it's almost over. And that is what we're gonna conversate about today on Free to Just Be, the podcast helping to awaken Humanityville to reconnect and remember who they truly are. And I'm your host, Teresa Marie, an ambassador of God's Chi, here to guide you out of the noise of the world and back into the quiet truths within your own body, mind, and soul. And this podcast is for every human out there in Humanityville who feels the pull to step out of old patterns, old programming, and the emotional heaviness of the Matrix and step back into a life of presence, purpose, and deep connection with others. And here on the show, I discuss my own awakening ascension journey through real life stories of what I'm going through because we're all going through it. And I often share things that people can't believe I shared, but are so glad that I did. And what we do is we reconnect with what the darkness, what the Matrix Mary Garanish tried to steal from us: our peace, our intuition, our sense of community, and most importantly, our deep connection and relationship with God. So, Humanityville, if you're out there and ready to breathe again, to feel deeply again, and to flow with the universe, and if you're ready to remember who you really are and why you came here, then you have found the right spot. This is Free to Just Be. Welcome in. And yes, today is the first of actually two days in a row that I'm off. And I am super excited and so grateful that God got me through a grueling seven weeks of 60-hour shifts. And of course, you know, I had some days where I would cut out a little bit early because I had the time to do that, so it didn't affect my wages. And quite frankly, it really got me through physically. But as I woke this morning, I was thinking about the end. Yes, it was the end of these heavy duty shifts. But oh baby, did we have some heavy duty shifts in 2025? I don't know about you, but it has been quite an incredible and transformative year. And some of us are really, really happy um that it's over. And it's uh it really was a year to be happy that it's over. But yet when things end, you know, some endings are really sad. And I don't know about you, but if you've shed some stuff this year, if there were relationships that closed, jobs, physical ways of being, a lot of that caused a lot of emotion, didn't it? Emotional upheaval after emotional upheaval. And what I'm here to convey today, and of course, I'm in a much upbeat type of frequency today, because I courageously came through a year of uh transformational crucibles. Feel me, Humanityville? And what I want to convey is to not cry about things that had to be over this year, but smile because of what you can you're coming out of 2025 with in hand, right? There's a quote that I'd like to read right now. It's an unknown quote, but it fits. And it says this and once the storms are over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing will be absolutely certain, that when you come out of these storms, you won't be the same person who walked into them. And that is what storms are all about. And that is part of the reason that many people don't want to take the ascension journey. Because when things are over, it's never really over, is it? And that that is the problem. And so people would rather stay on the Matrix Merry Ground because they know that it just goes around and around and around and around, and the loop feels very safe and very comfortable, and the wild rolly coaster ride of life seems very scary, and uh we don't want to go there, and it's it's really funny because we put so much time and energy into things, and then it's over, and already there's new things forming in its place, and and I don't really quite frankly understand why even myself, it you know, I kept thinking about all right, you know, just one more day, just one more day, just one more week, just one more shift. What was I doing? I that is that is that is the epitome of a future trip. And and yet, during this grueling seven weeks of overtime, I also in the midst of it had to use some of my tools that I share on this podcast all the time. You know, pulling things out of my joy belt, for example. One of the things that I really found myself doing, especially this last month, is coming back into my center. And what am I talking about? Well, I I've I've shared numerous times in in episodes of the last six weeks that I would loop the loop. And most loops start in your head, everything starts between your ears, right? And this is why the Bible will tell you that, and it and it came from Jesus Himself when he said to take every thought captive. And what that means is it's kind of like something will float into your mind, right, between your ears. And it's kind of if you get this, let me give you this word picture of how I have when I'm functioning in it, because a lot of the loop-de-loop is literally on autopilot, and we have to literally go into our own systems and remove the autopilot and come back into manual control, right? So picture this: here you are, you're, for example, at work in an Amazon warehouse. We'll use that as an example, and a thought process floats into your head. Oh my gosh, I am so tired of being here. I don't want to be here. Oh, will this over time ever end? Okay, so now the thought is there. So I want you to picture in your mind, image this in with me. The thoughts have come in, and now you're going to snatch them. Okay, so you've like you've put a bubble around them and you've snatched them in. And they now go into, all right, for example, in a lot of uh shows on TV, I'm I'm using Matrix examples to help fill out this picture. So, say, for example, on uh a talk show, they have what's called green rooms, where the person that's about to come out on stage to be interviewed sits and wait. You've heard of green rooms, right? So now we're gonna snatch up those thoughts and we're gonna stick them in a green room. And while we have them in the green room, we're going to interrogate interrogate those thoughts. You feel me? Hmm. Now, while you're in the green room, somebody enters the door. Open the door, and in walks who? Who would possibly need to go in to the green room and interrogate these thoughts? Well, that would be your observer, okay? So now let's go back to the many episodes I talked about. The observer. So I have this little Teresa Marie, the Ambassador of Chi Avatar, and she looks just like me, and she's about four inches tall, and she hangs out above my right shoulder, right? So my observer goes into that green room, and the conversation goes like this. Hmm, I noticed that you floated into my field just now. Where did you come from? Are you like really making the decisions here? Are you my highest self? Or are you a matrix program? Are you trying to get me out of my center? Because I'm right here right now. I'm standing in this Amazon warehouse. Oh, oh, oh. But I see you're trying to get me to think about 530 today when it's only eleven o'clock in the morning. Oh. Can I ask a question? Are you my future self? Oh no, you're not my future self. Oh, I see who you are now. You are that program that tries to pull me out of the present moment. Oh ho ho! So you, you matrix program you. I acknowledge you, I see you, but you know what? I don't need to interview you anymore because I already know your gig. So you open the green room door and you just let that thought pattern float right on out. Because that interview is done. Done, dun, done. It's over, baby, right? And that's what the show is all about. It's over. So we've come through an incredibly tumultuous year in every way, shape, or form. I mean, we can bemoan uh everything that's happened in the government, in the news, and in health, in social media, and all uh all of it, right? But we have to remember that the year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on with all the wisdom that we experienced in 2025. We're gonna take that package with us. But all the rest, it's done. Because we already know that nothing is really over, right? And we're gonna talk now a little bit about the year of the snake. Because the year of the snake is over, baby, and pretty soon in a couple of weeks, we are gonna enter into the year of the horse. And we're gonna talk about that uh in future episodes. But what happened in the year of the snake for you, Humanityville? For me, I believe for the majority of us, whether we're willing to admit it or not, especially any of us on this ascension journey, right? Destination unknown. But this year, just like snakes, we shed many, many skins. And just like a snake can shed its skin, we became aware that we are capable of getting rid of habits and programs and negativity. And why did we do that? Because we needed to create space to call all that really matters back into question, right? And then there was the um oh my goodness. There was the revealing of all the snakes out in the matrix. Oh yeah, baby. So many snakes were revealed in the government, in Hollywood, even in our lives. Because uh they weren't hidden at all, really, behind their masks. But the more we awaken, the more our lenses began to clear and we began to see the deception, we began to see the liars, we began to see through all of their masks. And we identified a lot of programs this year, you and I, didn't we? And it's it's very, very hard to go through. But if you don't check the grass for snakes, you can't complain about being bitten, can you? And that's what a lot of the unconscious world is doing. They're still pointing fingers. They're still saying it's this side of the political world that's creating all the problems, and it's and it's you, and it's this one, and it's that one, and they are avoiding the truth that all the answers, all the change, everything begins with us. It's it's always who we are. And it's our job to uncover those veils of unconsciousness and get back to our higher self and our greatest purpose of why we're here on this earth school, right? And uh there are many still right now causing division, and and the division came into a lot of our homes and a lot of our families this year, and a lot of people are experiencing estrangements from the very people that they love because all of us are not on the same frequency level, and it's been daunting and incredibly emotional and extremely painful, and many of us had to let go of the guilt and the shame of detachment and recognize that detaching is not a bad thing, it keeps us centered and grounded in who we really are, which is pure energy, light, and love. That's who we are. We are sparks, or as Lori Ladd puts it, we are particles of God, and that is what we need to nurture and water and feed, and oh baby, pulling out the weeds, closing down things that no longer serve us. That's what 2025 was all about. An incredible year of endings. It was the nine year, and now we are getting to start brand new. And it's uh it's been tough. But I'm here to remind you today that nothing is over, it's not over when you lose things. Really, life is over when you choose to quit. And there are many quitters this year. There are many that are are just they have doubled down and they have put double elastic on their masks, and they have increased their inebbiation habits, they have avoided people that are shinier than them, they have chosen to walk away from people who love them enough to speak the truth because a lot of the world is not ready for the truth. And so this incredible year of shedding, of ending, is coming to a close now. It's time to take out your. Journal, and it's time to look back on all the ways that you have changed. It's time to prep your celebration of 2026 coming in. But not in a way where you're like, oh, I'm so glad it's over. I'm so glad it's over. Really? Think about the hardest thing that you had to go through this year, whatever it is. Was it a financial burden? Was it a relational burden? A health challenge? Did you have to move in a way that you never had this year? But then look at it from a different perspective. Maybe it was the most difficult thing that you had to go through, and now you're on the other side of that dark night of the soul. What were those lessons? What good did you take away? Because you know what? There's always that proverbial silver lining of every dark cloud. There really is. So you look over your year and you think about the incredible things that have come out of it. A few of the things that I'll share today, uh, of course, I'm gonna do an end of the year um episode next week, but a few of the things off the top of my hat, this this thing about detachment, I think that has been the biggest, the biggest challenge for me and the biggest lesson. Because I have discovered that you can have deep, deep love for people right here in this 3D dimension that we live in, this earth school, and and yet be so different, or rather transforming so much that things no longer resonate between y'all. And the most difficult part of this is family members and all the guilt and shame that goes with that. Where does this guilt I think about that? Think about the negativity of just those words guilt and shame. So that is an easy way to identify a matrix program. If the program, the program's title, or what occurs when you enter into it, emotional upheaval, uh going back to an addiction, all if somebody pokes you and you begin having this knee-jerk reaction, that's a good indicator that you're going back into survival mode and tapping into a program, but you always know it's a program because matrix programs are always negative. That is what they feed on. So guilt and shame for deeply loving, for example, your children, even though they are not very happy with you right now, even though they may be ignoring you or uh worse, even cutting you off. When that happens, immediately the guilt program kicks in. Oh, it must have been my fault. I must have done something wrong. I, I, I, I, I. And remember, the biggest letter in the word sin, which we're gonna talk about in more in-depth in future episodes, because that in itself is a program. Oh, buddy, I'm I I'm losing Christians right now. Oh, because they are so convinced of that religiosity program. But I I digress. So even though that program kicks in, there is somebody higher, the shiny one, the particle of God, that pure energy and light knows that it has nothing to do with you. Whatever it was that caused it, maybe a decision, a word that you spoke that they weren't ready to receive, whatever it is that caused this shift in your family relationships, or whatever, whatever particular difficulty you had, maybe it was a financial, all of those things, good still comes out of it. Because you have to remember that oftentimes when you bump into another person or a matrix program itself, there's going to be a clash. But that does not necessarily mean that it is you. Because when you go into that mode of, oh, I must have done something, guess what program is now operating? That would be your ego. And what is your ego always there to do for us? It is there to remind us, remember, the ego can only draw from past experiences. And we don't live in the past, nor do we live in the future. We live in right now. And I'm going to go back to what I would do in the warehouse in just a moment. I have not forgotten about that. And so when that program comes in, the ego's program, it starts to say, oh, well, you know, in the in the past, well, you you used to say stuff, and and they they didn't like that, so I'm the one that need no, no. That's when in that green room you say, hey, look, ego, we've had this discussion before. You and I have had a lifetime of experience together. I'm so grateful, ego, that you have tried your damnedest to keep me safe and secure. But I just I'm here to remind you in this green room right now, because you know you've you've floated in again, and you're trying to take over my present moment. And I'm just reminding you that I am allowing God to drive my life now, and I am riding shotgun with him. So, ego, remember, your place in my life now is the back freaking seat of the car. So get behind me, right? So, going back to the warehouse when my loop-de-loops were happening, how how do you get yourself centered, Theresa Marie? What do you do as an ambassador of chi? Well, I know that everything is energy, including thoughts and emotions, and energy has to move. That's what emotions it's energy in motion, and when you reach out and grab them, they become stuck, unless, of course, you begin to instill the green room picture I gave you. And so, what I would do, and I've done it many times, especially this last week, was man, these shifts were getting old. And, you know, there was one day, I think I shared a couple of episodes ago that I just I could not, for the life of me, get the loop-to-loop out of my head, right? And I went home early that day, but the next day I was onto it, right? And that often is what happened. You uh as you're on this ascension ladder, it it's kind of like um in order to continue to climb, you have to keep yourself grounded. Because, you know, sometimes you feel so like proverbially high that you feel shaky, right? And and you have to remind yourself that you have to stay in the center. And so one of the things that I started to do as a mantra was your love is a reminder to find your center. So when that thought would come in right after one of those stinking thinking matrix programs would come in and try to loop to loop, try to get me distracted, I would do this. I would say, Teresa, look around. Yep, I'm here in this warehouse. Yes, I see these yellow bins. Oh, I feel my toes in my work boots. I feel the tension of these gloves on my hands. I hear the obnoxious noise of all the machinery. Do you see what I'm saying? I'm back. I'm back in the current moment. That humanity bill is all we have. This moment. And what the darkness wants more than anything is to keep us in the past, to keep us future tripping, to keep us looking for something, the end. We want the end. We want the end of suffering, we want the end of work, we want the end of financial difficulties, we want the end. And we have to get it through the head that there is no end. We literally are infinity. What? What? Yes, it is true. We are part of this incredible creation of God that's infinite. It goes on and on and on, as will our lives. We may leave this physical body if we so choose. Oh, that's a whole nother episode, isn't it? So, in closing today, closing up the year of the snake, I just want to remind you that even though 2025 is over, nothing is really over. And when we think that there is an end, we're gonna keep suffering. Because a year's end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on. And I hope that this year we will take all the wisdom from all the wonderful lessons that we learned in Earth School in 2025. And I hope that you will take some time this week, time out for yourself in silence and in isolation, and think about all the skins that you shed this year. Because every time you let a version of yourself go, you are getting closer to who you truly are, which is free to just be, right? So thank you so much for joining me here on Free to Just Be today and throughout 2025. I am Teresa Marie, an ambassador of Qi, just like you, reminding you that we are never alone on this journey. So keep all those emotions, energy, and motions moving. Keep breathing, and most importantly, keep reconnecting with God, with nature, your body, and with people who fill your life with meaning. And if this episode spoke to your soul, please like it, subscribe, and most importantly, share it with someone who needs a little light today. This is episode 345. And this year we are going to take it to the outer limits. And I can't do that without you, Humanityville. So I'm giving you the charge to not only stay awake and stay authentic, but please share. Free to just be. And in the meantime, until next time, peace.