Episode 6: Why Are We Addicted to Pain? Releasing Suffering to Reclaim Your Power & Prosperity

Why do we stay stuck in pain?

 If you’ve ever wondered “Why am I addicted to struggle?” or “How do I break free from old wounds?”, this episode of The Anneswer will help you understand why pain feels familiar — and how to finally release it. 

Anne Marie Pizarro — Akashic Records Guide and Success Strategist for spiritual entrepreneurs and creative visionaries — explains the deep spiritual and psychological roots of our attachment to suffering, what the Akashic Records say about soul contracts and pain, and how our identity can unconsciously revolve around wounds and struggle.

You’ll discover how being addicted to pain quietly sabotages your money mindset, drains your energy, and keeps abundance out of reach — and how our culture profits from this cycle. 

Anne Marie shares how to shift from a pain-based identity to a new story rooted in ease, self-trust, and spiritual sovereignty. 

Get three powerful ways to break the pattern, handle pain responsibly, and manifest a life that’s built on possibility — not perpetual struggle.

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Transcript

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Why are we addicted to pain? Whether it's emotional, spiritual or financial pain, many of us find ourselves caught in the loop of suffering. Not because we love it, but because it's familiar. In this episode, we'll look at how pain is part of our soul's curriculum, the monetary cost of living from our wounds and how to create an identity rooted in wholeness instead of survival. If you're ready to stop repeating the same old painful patterns and start living from your power, this episode is for you.

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Bless up and welcome to The Answer, a show that answers your questions from a spiritual, monetary, and manifesting angle. I'm your host, Anne-Marie Pizarro, Akashic Records guide and success advocate for spiritual entrepreneurs and creative visionaries. Together, we'll explore the answers your soul has been waiting to ask.

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Have you ever found yourself so used to struggle it actually feels uncomfortable when things start going well? You sabotage peace, resist help, or expect the other shoe to drop, even when everything is going fine. That's not bad luck. That's a pain-based identity, and it's more common than you think. Now, I want to be sensitive to people out there who are really suffering and in pain, and no matter what they do, they can't get past the physical, emotional, or mental debilitation of pain. This is real, and I want to recognize that for some cases, this is something that is not a light subject. So if you're hearing this and you're thinking, this is just some fluffy stuff, I want you to hold off and just listen. There may be something that could help you beyond the identity of pain. According to the Akashic Records, pain is often tied to soul contracts, karmic timelines, or ancestral imprints we choose to explore in this lifetime. The Akashic Records are like the collective library of knowledge that holds all our soul experiences, potentials, and outcomes. When we work with the Akashic Records, we can understand why we have this contract with pain and how to transform it. So if we're dealing with pain, we likely have a soul contract to experience it and evolve from it. Our relationship with pain was meant to teach us resilience, depth, and compassion. But it was never meant to be our permanent address. As in, we're not meant to live our entire life from a vantage point of being in pain. The problem is, many of us don't know who we are without the pain. So we unconsciously keep recreating it. We start to take on these mindsets like pain becomes proof we're working hard, or pain becomes the badge of our worthiness, or pain becomes the personality, you know, the one who overcomes, the survivor, the underdog. But let me pop your bubble. Pain was always meant to be a teacher, not an identity. Its purpose was to sharpen your empathy, to reveal what's unhealed and invite you inward. But here's where we get stuck. We mistake the lesson for who we are. We begin to identify with our pain like it's part of our personality and consciousness. We start to think, I'm the survivor. the fighter, the fixer. I'm the one who has to do everything the hard way. And while those stories might have served you at one point, they're not the full truth of who you are. Because pain was only ever meant to initiate you, not define you or continuously punish you throughout your life. So if you're wondering why, What the hell is it initiating me to? Well, it's initiating you to self-care, being willing to take proactive actions to heal, and discover a new way of being while handling the discomfort and pain. Something in you signed up to experience pain in this lifetime so you could actually heal from it, not become it. So when you ask, why are we addicted to pain? The answer is because the world is addicted to negative thinking and has been in pain for lifetimes upon lifetimes. Historically, we come from a very violent past and there's a lot of pain and suffering to get to where we're at. Ask your ancestors. They didn't have the easy-peasy life that we might have today. And pain is here to teach us something very important, that we have choices to help handle the pain, whether it's physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual. Now, pain does cause people to come together, commiserate, and share their thoughts and feelings around suffering. From this comes the identity and a feeling of fitting in. But this is a trap, my friend. The moment you shift from identifying with the pain to learning from it, you step back into authorship of your story. See, pain opens the door, but love is what walks you through it. You're not here to repeat your wounds. You're here to alchemize them, heal them, and become victorious in living your life beyond suffering. It is absolutely possible. And when you choose to become that version of you that exists beyond the pain, you set yourself free and you continue to write your story of how you're living this life to its fullest. So if pain is tied to our soul lessons, how does it play out in our financial reality? Coming up next, we'll explore how our addiction to pain affects money, power, and the systems we operate in.

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Thank you so much for joining us. This is what it looks like to move beyond the pain and money paradigm. You no longer make emotional purchases to feel better. You stop seeing money as your medicine and start treating it like the mirror it is. One that reflects your current level of self-trust, self-respect and spiritual sovereignty. That means you're empowered at making sound financial decisions because you're better. The truth is, pain was never meant to manage your bank account. Your clarity, your consciousness, and your capacity to receive were always meant to do that. So if you're wondering, why are we addicted to pain and how does it affect our money? The answer is because it's familiar, and our nervous system associates struggle and pain with safety, identity, and worth, especially if we've been conditioned to believe we must suffer to succeed. This pain-based mindset shows up in our money and wealth by keeping us in cycles of undercharging, overspending to self-soothe, or avoiding abundance because we don't feel we've earned it. The result is a financial reality that mirrors our wounds instead of our worth. So if you want to live a life free from addiction to pain, We must choose to heal the root of our suffering and shift into our empowered state of receiving. That my friend is the big work here. Music All right, we've covered some big topics around pain, spirituality, and money. It's a doozy, but we've got something really special coming up next. We'll explore how to create from wholeness, not woundedness, and what it means to transform pain into power and purpose. Don't go away. We'll be right back. We'll see you next time. Whether you're just starting out in business or scaling to your next level of success and service, we've got you. So join the Successful Spiritual Entrepreneur group on Facebook and plug into the community your business has been calling in. The link is in the show notes, so come say hi and let's rise together. Now, there's been a consistent theme in our previous episodes and it includes this too. You can't manifest miracles or anything you want while anchoring your energy in suffering. If pain is your energetic baseline, you're unconsciously resisting the ease, joy, and abundance you say you want. And here's the kicker. You may not even realize you're doing it. Your pain cycle may be a subconscious operating system, and it's time for you to get ahead of what's running the show. Manifesting is a creative process, not a coping mechanism. Thank you so much for joining us. one that is rooted in possibility so if you want to create a new identity beyond pain here are three suggestions to consider number one name the pattern identify where the pain still defines you is it in your business your relationship or your self-talk it's important to bring it to the surface and be willing to see it so you can actually get ahead of it Number two, honor the pain, but please don't worship it. Pain is here to teach you something. Think it, but don't let it become the throne you sit on and make decisions from. Number three, create a new story. It's time for you to adopt and affirm a new mindset, such as I create my life. Through love, joy, and divine alignment, I no longer need to suffer to succeed. So if you're wondering how to manifest while you're addicted to pain, the answer is you can't. However, you absolutely can change. Pain, especially if it's part of your daily living reality, doesn't have to stop you or define you. can become the point where you begin to step back into your power and take conscious control of what you want, how you think, how you feel, and how to be. Manifesting a life beyond pain is available to you. There are many people in the world who successfully manage to reach this. I truly believe it's possible for you and I even encourage you to think of who you would need to become to live beyond the pain. This is the identity you were always meant to exist in. So, are we addicted to pain? In many ways, yes. But addiction isn't the destiny. It's just a pattern. And patterns, they can be healed. The answer is you are not your pain. You are the one who transforms it. And in our next episode, we'll talk about another sneaky trickster energy leak that keeps us stuck. How to overcome distractions. We'll explore why. why your energy feels scattered, how distraction pulls you from your purpose, and how to anchor in deep focus, both spiritually, practically, and powerfully. Until then, friend, be kind to yourself in your story. And remember that ease and choice are your birthright in the present moment, and pain can become part of your past.

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matter how you look at it, you're always making decisions every single day. Some of these decisions keep you aligned on your soul's path and others are simply responding to circumstances around you. With these decisions come questions like, what's the next best step? When you tune in to the answer, both the podcast and your inner knowing, you open the door to the insight, clarity, and trust you need to keep going, one aligned step at a time. Thanks for listening, and remember, your path is continuously unfolding, and the answers are closer than you think. This episode of The Answer was created in collaboration with Anne-Marie Pizarro, Focus Lens Media, and their assigned group. Music credit goes to Reggae is the Answer by RentKid. All relevant links and resources are available in the show notes. This content is for entertainment and inspiration only. Please don't reproduce, share, or remix this episode without permission because that's not just illegal, it's also super uncool. Thanks for honoring the sacred space we're creating here. Bless up.