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Is Justice Sensitivity Keeping You Stuck (and Broke)?

• Carissa Andrews • Season 1 • Episode 21

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Your justice sensitivity isn't sabotaging your manifestation—it's guiding your soul's true mission. As a neurodivergent or deeply empathetic person, you've likely felt the frustrating pattern: doing all the "right" manifestation practices yet pulling back just when success appears, feeling uncomfortable with conventional marketing, or experiencing guilt when abundance flows your way while others struggle.

This isn't a flaw or failure. When your nervous system has linked wealth with exploitation or success with compromising values, no amount of journaling or visualization can override your body's wisdom. That internal resistance—the one that makes you walk away from platforms that misuse data or business models that don't align with your ethics—isn't self-sabotage. It's sovereignty. It's your moral compass functioning perfectly, ensuring you never become what you oppose.

The breakthrough comes when you recognize that your heightened sense of justice isn't blocking abundance—it's revealing the path to a different kind of prosperity altogether. You're manifesting with your integrity intact, building what I call the "Aureyan Economy"—a system based on resonance, reciprocity, and restoration. Rather than choosing between ethics and income, purpose and prosperity, you're creating an entirely new paradigm where they're inseparably intertwined. 

Ready to transform your justice sensitivity from perceived limitation into your greatest manifestation superpower? Join us in The Deep End for the full energetic reset at manifestdifferently.com/substack.

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Carissa Andrews:

Welcome to Manifest Differently, the podcast for neurodivergent thinkers and anyone looking to approach manifestation in a way that truly works for them. I'm your host, carissa Andrews, here to explore the science, energy and strategies that will help you create the life you love. Let's dive in and Manifest Differently.

Carissa Andrews:

Well, hey there and welcome back to Manifest. Differently, I'm Carissa Andrews, and today's episode is going to strike a nerve for some of you, hopefully in the best possible way. I want to talk about something that most manifestation conversations really don't cover is going to strike a nerve for some of you, hopefully in the best possible way. I want to talk about something that most manifestation conversations really don't cover. And yet, if you're neurodivergent, soul-led or with a deep sense of justice, it's probably the exact thing blocking your ability to receive. And I do say blocking in a very general sense of the term, because I'm not a big fan of the word block. But I do believe at some point we get ourselves a little bit stuck because of this justice sensitivity. And yes, I am speaking from experience. So let me ask you have you ever felt like you're doing all the right things in manifestation? You know you're journaling, visualizing, trying to regulate your nervous system, but no matter what you do, you still feel like you can't fully break through to that next level of wealth or visibility. You might find yourself pulling back just when things start working. You might feel allergic to traditional marketing tactics or platforms like Amazon or Facebook. You might even feel guilty when money shows up like you don't want to celebrate too loudly because you know others are still struggling. Now, if that sounds like you, I want you to know that this is not a flaw. You know you're not lazy or inconsistent and you're definitely not broken. I get that a lot, where people think that they're broken because they're not doing it right or the money's not coming in or they're not manifesting right. No, that's not what this is. You are justice sensitive and when you're wired this way, especially as a neurodivergent or highly empathetic human, you see the systems that harm people. You feel the injustice in your bones and your body will literally block success if it thinks success means becoming like them. You know the ones who exploit and manipulate and hoard. So in this episode we're going to explore how your beautiful, sacred sense of justice might actually be the very thing keeping you from receiving, not because you're doing something wrong, but because you haven't yet given yourself permission to receive without betrayal, to thrive without abandoning your values. And, of course, if you want the full energetic reset for this, where we go deeper into unwinding the nervous system response and realigning your wealth codes, I'll be guiding you inside of the deep end this week, so you can join us now over there at manifestdifferentlycom forward slash substack. That's where we take these conversations from concept into embodiment.

Carissa Andrews:

But before we dive into the heart of today's episode, let's take a moment to come back into your body. Justice, sensitivity, doesn't just live in the mind. It lives in the nervous system, in your jaw, in your chest, in that tight grip that you feel when you want to do more for others, but you don't know how. So, wherever you are unless you're driving, of course close your eyes if it feels safe and let's just take three slow, intentional breaths together Inhale, feel your heart expand. Exhale, let the tension drain from your shoulders Again. Inhale it is safe to thrive. Exhale, anchor into your truth.

Carissa Andrews:

Now I want you to imagine a version of you who's already arrived at your next level. They're wealthy not because they played a rigged game, but because they refused to. They didn't abandon their values to make money. They created an entirely new paradigm. Feel them in your field. Now that version of you is already real. You're not becoming them, you are remembering them. Keep that version close as we move through the rest of this conversation today, because I think it's going to really help you to identify that what you're doing, how you be, the way that you're showing up in this world, it's all coming together to be parts of a greater whole, so to speak. Okay, all right.

Carissa Andrews:

So let's talk about justice sensitivity and if you've never heard of that term before, I'm surprised, because as neurodivergents, we all know that we are highly attuned to justice. But if you haven't, you are going to feel so. Seen, right now, justice sensitivity is this deep internal radar that goes off when things feel unfair or unequal or morally wrong. I felt this my entire life because I grew up with a brother who had a brain tumor and I have an aunt who has Down syndrome and I have other family members with other neurodivergence that are happening, and I've always seen the injustice of how people are treated when there's nothing wrong with them. They're just different. Right Now, it's common for us neurodiverents, especially those who grew up, like I said, either people pleasing or over-functioning to stay safe, or living in a world where you can see the dynamic very clearly, like I could. But even more than that, it's also a soul trait.

Carissa Andrews:

You came here not just to manifest pretty things right. This capitalistic society and the way that it operates it wants us to believe that we need things, that we need to manifest pretty things right. This capitalistic society and the way that it operates it, wants us to believe that we need things, that we need to manifest millions of dollars, because we do. But you came here to restore balance to a system that forgot how. So what does this have to do with money? Well, if your nervous system has linked wealth with harm, if you believe money is the root of injustice, or if you associate success with exploitation which that one's a big one for me then, no matter how many affirmations you write, your body is going to pump the brakes. Your soul just won't allow you to rise in a way that feels out of alignment with your integrity, and that that it's taken me a long time to understand. That is not sabotage, that is sovereignty, that's your moral compass, doing what it was designed to do.

Carissa Andrews:

But here's the problem with that. We live in a system where the path to wealth often does require compromise. We've seen it, we can see it all around us. Right? We're told to hustle, to manipulate, to use scarcity tactics on our copy pages. Right, get on platforms that don't respect your data, your creativity or your energy. Facebook Do whatever it takes right.

Carissa Andrews:

When you see through that, though, when you've awakened to that and your body refuses to play that game, you end up feeling stuck Like, no matter what you do, something keeps pulling you back, and I know because I've done it over and over again and I've seen the pattern. I've witnessed it. I've built the momentum, like, for instance, as an author, I was in Kindle Unlimited, but then, as I was building my momentum, I pulled out because I didn't want to be exclusive to Amazon. I could see how it was treating authors. I could see the writing on the wall. I've run successful Facebook ads building up my Shopify store, and then I stopped them cold because I don't align with Zuckerberg or how Meta treats its creators, and in those moments, I knew I was doing the right thing for me, for how my integrity felt, but I've still had that voice inside that whispers you're screwing this up, you're walking away from everything you've built. Can you relate? I've even done this with Author Revolution in a sense. So that was my it is. It's not was. It is my company for teaching authors manifestation and teaching authors how to use AI to leverage their businesses. And yet I could feel my soul calling me to something bigger, something different, and my integrity made me walk away.

Carissa Andrews:

So if you're someone who wants to make money differently, who wants to do it in a way that's sacred and not shameful, this inner conflict can sometimes feel really unbearable. It's like you're caught between your purpose and your prosperity. It really does feel like that. It's a tug of war. But let me offer you this reframe what if you're not between purpose and prosperity? What if your prosperity is part of your purpose? What if the very thing that makes you feel too sensitive is actually the key to building a new wealth system, one where money flows through values, not in spite of them? Because here's the truth, your justice, sensitivity. It really isn't a block, it's a compass. It's showing you which systems are decaying and which ones you're here to replace, because our pattern recognition brains are looking at it all, saying this isn't right and we are here to fix it. And that discomfort you feel in your body when you see exploitation, that's your body's way of saying not this, not anymore, not in my field. And the more you listen to that signal without collapsing into guilt or martyrdom, the more you start to reclaim your power as a builder of the new.

Carissa Andrews:

This is what I'm starting to call the Aurean economy. If you've been following me for a while, maybe you've heard me talk on TikTok about Aurea. Maybe you have a couple of the Aurean transmissions, the Reiki transmissions that are on the website. But the way I'm seeing it, the way that it's building out, it far exceeds anything that I've understood for myself or why I ended up coming here, right. But the Arrayan economy is a system based on resonance, reciprocity and restoration, and it lives inside people like you. If you'd like to know more about that frequency, about what I've been building with that, there is a manifesto that talks about how the frequency works, how it doesn't work. You can download it for free right there at the Manifest Differently homepage. It's part of the area field, okay, so that's where you can find that.

Carissa Andrews:

But people who are willing to slow down, feel the truth and create a new path instead of copying broken ones. We are the ones building the new economy. We've heard for a long time that the new earth is coming, that 5D is shifting, that the 3D systems are falling away, and it definitely feels that way if you're watching any kind of politics, news, any of the things right. So if you're feeling stuck, or you've been feeling stuck, or if you've been wondering why manifestation doesn't seem to quote unquote work for you. I just want you to know this you are not doing it wrong and you're not behind or falling apart or fucking it up, okay, you're just manifesting with your integrity intact. And that, my friend, that is super awesome. That's a superpower, in essence to be able to stay true to your sovereignty in a system, in a society that is telling you to do and be anything but Okay.

Carissa Andrews:

So if you take nothing else from today's episode, let it be this you don't have to choose between your values and your abundance. You were never meant to. In fact, your wealth becomes more impactful when it flows through your integrity. You don't have to hustle like they do. You don't have to hustle like they do. You don't have to sell like they do and you don't have to exploit systems that make your stomach churn, because you, you came here to write new rules and when you start to see your justice, sensitivity, not as a block but as a beacon, everything changes.

Carissa Andrews:

It's the very trait that ensures you'll never become the thing you fear, because you're aware, because you care, because you're willing to pause and ask is this in alignment with who I really am? And that pause, that question, that's what keeps you in resonance. And when you're in resonance, when your body, your values and your desires are all saying yes together, that's when manifestation stops feeling like effort and starts feeling like remembering, like destiny, like of course this is meant to be right. So maybe your path takes a little longer, maybe it's slower or softer or more honest, but I promise you your wealth will mean something, not just to you but to the people watching you do it your way, because your abundance won't just lift you. It will give permission to everyone else who thought they had to choose between becoming rich and being real. So here's your invitation.

Carissa Andrews:

If something cracked open for you in this episode, if you're realizing that your nervous system is maybe linking wealth with betrayal or visibility with danger, you're not alone. Okay, remember, you're not blocked. You're just wired for integrity and that's a damn beautiful thing. But your body still needs to feel safe to receive, and that's the part we're diving into next. So, inside the deep end this week, I'm guiding a full energetic reset to help you shift this justice, sensitivity from something that's holding you back into something that guides your quantum expansion. We'll work with somatic awareness, rewiring money trauma and anchoring the safety of receiving without compromising your values. So if you've been stuck between ethics and income, this episode is your bridge.

Carissa Andrews:

You can join me now over at manifestdifferentlycom. Forward slash substack, which is where this exclusive expanded edition comes from. Okay, and if you're feeling the pull into something even deeper, something that resonates on a soul level, I also just released a brand new Arrayin Chamber Reiki transmission to help you attune to this new wealth frequency by calling in your soul family, the soul family. That's maybe helping you bridge between who you were and who you're becoming, and that's available right now over at manifestdifferentlycom. And if you're wanting to expand deeper, or if you haven't tried out some of the other transmissions, like the Aurea activation, I definitely hope that you will go over to manifestdifferentlycom. Everything is right there on the homepage.

Carissa Andrews:

Now. The truth is, you are the new wealth paradigm. You don't need to sell out to cash in, you just need to trust that your frequency is the new wealth paradigm. You don't need to sell out to cash in, you just need to trust that your frequency is the new economy. Now we are shifting. We are shifting away from scarcity and tactics that feel gross. So I'll see you in the next one, or if you're ready to dig deeper inside of the deep end. Until next time, stay true to your integrity, stay sovereign and keep manifesting differently.

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