Why You’re Not Broken — You’re Just Too Early for the System You Were Meant to Replace

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What if the problem isn’t you… it’s the system you were never meant to fit into?

In this soul-deep episode of Manifest Differently, we’re breaking down the hidden reason your manifestations might feel blocked, distorted, or like they’re taking their sweet cosmic time. Spoiler alert: it’s not because you’re misaligned or doing it wrong — it’s because you’re manifesting outside the matrix.

We’re diving into:

• Why manifestation feels “off” even when your energy is on point
• The spiritual friction of building a reality the old system can’t compute
• The truth about frequency wars, delayed timelines, and the collapse of hustle culture
• And why your detour isn’t a failure — it’s a feature of being a frequency pioneer

This is your permission slip to stop self-blaming and start reclaiming the power of your unique rhythm.

✨ Plus, I’ll share how to hold your nervous system steady when everything around you feels like it’s crumbling — and where to go for the deeper somatic work.

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You’re not late.
You’re not lost.
You’re just early — and you were born to build what comes next.

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Thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of the Manifest Differently Podcast. I hope today’s story inspired you to trust the process and manifest in a way that feels aligned with your unique energy.

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Until next time, remember: you have the power to manifest differently—and the universe is waiting to conspire in your favor. See you next week!

Episode Transcript

Carissa Andrews (00:08):
Welcome to Manifest Differently, the
podcast for neurodivergentthinkers and anyone looking to
approach manifestation in a waythat truly works for them.
I'm your host, carissa Andrews,here to explore the science,
energy and strategies that willhelp you create the life you
love.
Let's dive in and ManifestDifferently.

(00:34):
Hey there, beautiful soul,welcome back to Manifest
Differently podcast.
Today's episode might feel likea permission slip or a
reckoning, or maybe both,because I want to talk about
something that so many of ushave been feeling lately but
haven't always had the languagefor that frustrating space where
you're doing the inner work,you're showing up, aligning your

(00:55):
energy, maybe even clearingyour limiting beliefs, doing all
of that and yet things stillfeel blocked.
The manifestation hasn't landed, the money isn't arriving, the
shift you know is coming isstill taking its sweet ass time.
If you've ever felt like you'redoing it right and still not

(01:16):
getting the results, I want youto know it's not because you're
broken.
It's because you're too earlyfor a system that was never
built to hold your expansion.
And in today's episode we'regoing to explore that exact
frequency mismatch, why so manyof us are hitting a wall in our
manifestation practices.
Not because we're misaligned,but because we're manifesting

(01:39):
outside the matrix instead ofwithin it.
This is the what and the why,and it might change the way you
see your entire path so far.
Now, if you're ready to takethis deeper into the how to hold
your power and regulate yournervous system as timelines
collapse around you, I've gotyou inside the deep end, my

(01:59):
private after show podcast overon Substack.
Okay, that's where I'm going tobreak down how to integrate
these truths into your dailylife, especially as a
neurodivergent or energeticallysensitive being.
The link to join is in the shownotes and, trust me, this
week's deep end is going to befire.
You can also head over tomanifestdifferentlycom forward.

(02:20):
Slash Substack just to make iteasy.
But for now, I want you to takea deep breath and ground
together.
Before we dive in, let's justtake a moment to let the message
for today land.
If you're multitasking rightnow, that's okay, but if it
feels safe, give yourselfpermission to pause.
Okay, just for a few breaths.

(02:41):
Let's call your energy back toyour body.
Okay, just for a few breaths.
Let's call your energy back toyour body.
Breathe in through your nose,hold for a moment and exhale
slowly through your mouth.
Let's do two more just likethat Breathe in Hold and exhale.

(03:08):
Breathe in hold and exhale.
Breathe in again hold and exhaleNow softly in your mind or out

(03:30):
loud.
I want you to repeat thisaffirmation okay, I trust that I
am exactly where I need to be.
I am not broken.
I am building something new.
Let that settle into yournervous system.
It's a powerful statement andone that really just kind of

(03:52):
made my whole body hum when Ifirst was writing it.
So let your shoulders drop, letyour jaw and clench that's a
big one for me.
Let your body know right here,right now, that you're safe.
Okay, even here, especiallyhere, breathe again, just settle

(04:15):
.
Breathe again, just settle.
All right, let's go a littledeeper.
So let's name what's reallygoing on, because when we give
something a name, we have powerover it.
You've been doing the work,you've been visualizing and
scripting and affirming, you'velet go of what no longer serves
you, you've opened yourself upto receive, and yet the thing

(04:40):
you've been calling in stillhasn't landed.
That's the moment where a lotof people myself included at
times begin to spiral.
We start asking what am I doingwrong?
What is still in my fieldthat's blocking this dang thing?
Am I not aligned enough?
Am I still too attached?

(05:00):
But what if the problem is notyour alignment?
What if the delay is actually asign of your expansion.
I actually saw a TikTok todaythat really kind of resonated
with this message that I wantedto share with you, and the woman
was talking about how there arepeople who are in their
awakening phase right now andthere are people who are on

(05:21):
their ascension phase.
They've already been awake fora while, but now they're
ascending and this, thisexpansion, that isn't quite here
yet.
There's a dissonance, becauseit's a signal that your system
is no longer compatible with thematrix you were born into.
And here's what I mean by that.
Okay, we live in a world thatwas built on extraction Systems

(05:44):
like capitalism, colonization,patriarchy.
They're all built to takeenergy, not honor it.
They reward linearity,predictability, control and
speed.
But real manifestation, that'snonlinear, it's intuitive, it's
feminine, it's slow and thensudden.

(06:06):
So when you start aligning withyour truth, when you begin
manifesting from safety insteadof survival, you literally stop
matching the frequency of thoseold systems, and they don't like
that.
It's not that yourmanifestations aren't coming,
they are.
It's just that you're no longermanifesting within the old
reality grid.

(06:27):
You're manifesting somethingcompletely new.
And the transition between theseworlds, oh, it's messy.
Because when you stop playingby their rules.
When you stop overworking,overgiving, overcompensating,
the system glitches and that canfeel like delays.
It can feel like resistance,stagnation, even collapse.

(06:48):
But what if all of thatfriction isn't a block?
What if it's a detox?
What if the delay isn'tpunishment but instead it's a
recalibration?
So many of us right now areholding codes for realities that
haven't landed yet.
We are manifesting in timelinesthat don't exist on the

(07:09):
collective grid yet.
I need you to hear that thecollective grid.
Yet we are living still in this3D matrix run by the collective
memories of what we believe itto be okay.
But there are some of us whoare the map makers, the
blueprint holders, the frequencystabilizers and the old grids.

(07:32):
The old realities haven'tshifted enough yet.
So of course it feels weird, ofcourse it's taking time.
You're literally rewiring theenergetic laws that govern your
old life and the reality aroundyou, the collective reality.
This is the edge of your nextdimension, not because you've

(07:54):
done something wrong at all, butbecause you're finally aligning
with a truth too expansive forthe system that trained you to
stay small.
So when it feels like thingsaren't working, I want you to
remember you're just a littleearly for a system you came here
to replace.
Okay, not everyone has caughtup yet.
Maybe you haven't even caughtup yet.

(08:14):
So here's what I want you towalk away with today If your
manifestations feel delayed ordistorted or just silent, I want
you to pause before you defaultto self-blame, because, for
those of us who areneurodivergent or highly
sensitive, those of us who arenonlinear creators and

(08:35):
entrepreneurs, our path hasnever followed the rule books.
We weren't born into a systemthat understands our rhythm, let
alone rewards it.
So when you stop forcing, whenyou choose regulation over
urgency, and when you listen toyour actual capacity instead of
chasing someone else's strategy,the old grid can't mirror back
to you in the same way anymore.

(08:56):
And that's not a failure.
Like I said, that's a freedomrecalibration into your field.
The results will come, butthey'll come through your design
, not in spite of it.
They'll also come as the newreality starts to shift around
us.
We're seeing this on a globalspectrum right now.
There is so much upheaval inold systems, and so they haven't

(09:18):
collectively caught up.
So the shift today is this youare not late caught up.
So the shift today is this youare not late, you're leading.
You are in the leading edge ofwhat reality gets to look like
and you're calling something inthat can't come through yet
because of what you want beingso much bigger than what you
think you want.
On a conscious, likeconsciousness level, you know,

(09:41):
like that, that aspect of you iscalling in something so much
more, and you might've even comehere with the soul knowledge
that you are here to shake upthe system or at least hold
space for the new system to takeroot.
So say this with me I am notbroken.
I am the beginning of a brandnew way.
Let that truth settle.

(10:03):
Let it rewrite the shame.
You are a generational cursebreaker, you know.
Let that knowledge reorientyour timeline back into trust.
So if today's message resonatedwith you, if something clicked
into place today, or if yourbody felt relief when you heard
the words, you're not broken,you're building something new.
I want to invite you to take itdeeper, because here's the

(10:26):
thing recognizing the disconnect, that's one thing.
Learning how to hold yourenergy while everything shifts
around you, that's the realpractice and that's exactly what
I guide you through inside thedeep end.
My private after show podcast onSubstack.
This week's episode is allabout how to hold your power
when timelines are collapsing,what to do when nothing's

(10:48):
showing up yet, and how toanchor into your future self
without falling back into oldsurvival patterns.
We're talking regulation,identity anchoring, energy
mapping and the rituals Ipersonally use to stay in the
frequency of my next level, evenwhen the outside world hasn't
caught up yet.
So if you want to join me there, the link is in the show notes

(11:09):
or you can head over tomanifestdifferentlycom.
Forward, slash, substack and ifyou're feeling the pull to go
even deeper, to reclaim yourwriting life, your creative
identity and your power as amultidimensional author, I'm
launching two books this monththrough Kickstarter that were
designed for exactly this moment.
Right Frame of Mind is areimagined version of a book

(11:32):
that I wrote called AuthorImposter, but this is now all
for neurodivergent manifestors.
I understand so much moredeeply what I was trying to say
through that first book, so it'sa completely new version of
Right Frame of Mind.
And then Write your Reality isbook two in the series.
It's all about quantummanifestation, how the science

(11:53):
behind quantum manifestationworks, why neuroscience is such
a big part of this, why yournervous system is such a big
part of it.
They're for writers who thinkdifferently, who feel
differently and know thatthey're here to do things on
their own terms, not just instrategy, but also in energy.
So if you want to be part ofthis movement, please head over

(12:13):
to authorrevolutionorg forwardslash Kickstarter.
Author Revolution is my authorcompany, so I would love for you
to back the campaign and getaccess to the exclusive tools,
the bundles and courses thatwon't be available again until
2026.
Now, remember, you're notbehind at all.
Not at all.
Your manifestations aren't evenbehind.

(12:35):
You're just building a realitythat doesn't exist yet and that
makes you a frequency pioneer.
I am so, so glad that you'rehere and please remember, you
have the power to create yourown reality, so go out there and
manifest differently.