Why Friendship Changes During Personal Growth

This Patreon episode (https://www.patreon.com/cw/JinaSeer) is a deeper continuation of the creativity theme we’re exploring on Seer Sessions, but this time, we go beneath the surface.

Why Friendship Changes During Personal Growth

As people grow, heal, and become more self-aware, friendships often change. Relationships that once felt natural may begin to feel draining, confusing, or misaligned.

In this episode of Seer Sessions Patreon, Jina Seer explores why friendship changes during healing and awakening, and how emotional growth can shift relationship dynamics.

Topics include friendship burnout, emotional exhaustion in relationships, people pleasing in friendships, subtle anxiety around certain people, outgrowing old social roles, and learning to choose connection from self-trust.

Jina also shares insights from hypnosis work and higher self sessions around discernment, community, heartbreak, and relationship clarity.

This episode is for anyone asking:

  • Why do my friendships feel different lately?

  • Why do certain people drain me now?

  • How do I know if I’ve outgrown a friendship?

  • How do I stop performing in relationships?

  • How do I trust myself with friendship decisions?

If you’re navigating friendship shifts, emotional growth, boundaries, or loneliness during transformation, this episode offers grounded insight and perspective.

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TRANSCRIPT

Jina Seer:

Hey everyone, it's Jina. On Patreon in this membership, this is where we go a little bit deeper into the patterns, the practices, I guess, and basically just like the real time, like what I'm working on, what I'm coming back to, because if you're anything like me, I think we all feel this calling to come back to ourself, to come back to that clarity.

And that's why we go within and we go through the shadows, because we want to see like, who am I? Who am I outside of all the pressure and the expectations? If you're new here, welcome, welcome. I do not take it lightly that people put the energetic current that is money my direction. I am going to show up as I committed to every single month.

That's just who I am and what I do and I don't take it lightly. So for every new member, I see you, I see your name. And every once in a while I fall behind a little bit, but I always send a message just saying, hey, welcome. I'm so glad you're here. And I want you to know that if you have any questions about anything that I talk about in these Patreon episodes, anything that comes up in the membership or the group hypnotic journeys,

Or maybe you're doing a hypnotic journey from the podcast on your own at home and you have a question or you're wondering, maybe you have a question before you even do the journey. I want you to know that you can see me as a resource. You can also explore past episodes. You can join me for live online hypnotic journeys. And then remember on this Patreon, you always have access to the Higher Self Access Kit.

And that is designed for you to walk through any self-doubt that you might be having, really get you connected to and acquainted with your higher self-energy, who you are, the essence of you, your soul self. Because when we can operate from that space, we're operating in alignment with the life we came here to create, which means less friction, more joy, more wonder. And if you're like me, that's what I want.

Jina Seer (02:18.05)

Okay, everything is on the membership page. Just take what feels useful for you. Okay, let's get into it. Going a little bit deeper into friendship. So I wanted to talk about just what actually happens in a session around friendship. It's pretty rare that someone would come to a one-on-one session with me. In the name of friendship in general, they might come with like a specific relationship in mind if they're struggling with it for some reason.

and they wanted clarity around it or connection through it, then they would come in. But that was pretty rare. But friendship came up a lot in session. I guess a lot more than I thought it would have. And what's so funny is I started doing hypnosis one-on-one work when I was 38. Now I'm 45 and I have had such my own

like revolution within friendship in my own life. And so it's probably not that surprising actually the law of attraction that people in my orbit would also be kind of in that space. But here's I think what happens. We come into our healing journey for whatever reason, we're uncomfortable, we're living out of alignment. And we come to a space where we realize like,

I am making the wrong decisions because I have accomplished some things and I'm not like as happy as I thought I could be. It's not like effortless. I thought once I got here, it would be easier, right? We come to this space where it's some sort of disillusionment, whether it's that or maybe there's some like catastrophic event that kind of wakes you up. But a lot of us turn inward because of some sort of pain.

And there's many ways of looking at that. You can think of it like expansion. You can think of it as going into the shadow. You can think of it as destruction. So there can be a rebirth. There's all kinds of ways to look at it. But no matter how you look at it, it's painful. And it's not, it sucks, you know? And really the only way through it is to change some things.

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that are hard to change by nature and hard to change because there's a reason why you were doing it the other way. And sometimes that you know that consciously and sometimes it's subconscious. So first you have to wake up to the thing that you need to change and realize like, my God, I can change this, you know? And that looks all kinds of different ways. But regardless, it's like grueling work.

pain that starts it, there's pain through it. But when you come out on the other side, and I guess I don't know about you, I'll talk from my experience, when I came out, when I think of that trajectory just of seven years of seeing people, or seven or eight years of seeing people one-on-one, and having friendship actually come up often, I was seeing this in myself of

growing, changing, going within. And I had my first past life regression in 2015. I started to, you know, have mindfulness creep into every part of my life. That's the thing when we are on this healing journey, no matter what it is that you're looking inward to heal or change, it's an expansion. If you can feel a new depth of pain,

The way it works in this relative universe, my understanding, is that the equal and opposite is always available, always an opportunity for us. And so with that in mind, I think of life like a trampoline. Like, if I'm in pain, I like to try to remind myself, it's hard to, but I like to try to remind myself, like, life is like a trampoline. Like,

just know this pain is allowing me to expand and to feel levels of joy and gratitude that I had never reached before. And when we expand ourselves emotionally like that, you have this capacity and with great power comes great responsibility. You have to intentionally use it. And so it's not just

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Like, I feel angry. Once we kind of expand and we understand ourself and we see and we witness ourself grow and change on our journey, the emotional capacity that we have, the wisdom that we have, and the clarity that comes from it, it changes us totally. Going through this healing journey, it's like going from emotional capability of like,

Remember when you were in kindergarten or something and your crayon box had, I don't know, like 10 or 12 crayons in it? And then by the time you were in, you know, at the end of elementary school, it was like the 120 pack or something like that. And it's almost, it's not like you're changing. It's like your capacity is growing. And in your ability to,

hold deeper emotions, we can also then feel a greater sense of peace and calm in everything within those edges. And so if we keep pushing those edges out, we feel more peace and more calm in shit that used to make us crazy before. So I think to be on a healing journey, to have that change within you,

Of course, if you are going, if I was going from an emotional skill level of a 12 pack of crayons and I have not intentionally set out to, but what has happened is now I have the emotional capacity of like a crayon pack of 120 crayons. It's not that I don't like people with the 12 crayon pack. It's not that I'm better than them. It's just that I'm

different now and We can relate and we can play together but I'm always gonna be not fully there because the container doesn't really support that and so it makes total sense to me when I reflect on it kind of from an energetic level like that an emotional capacity level like that and it also makes sense to me because I saw it in my own friendships

Jina Seer (09:31.048)

Now I talk a little bit more about that in the May 1st episode. So if you haven't listened to that, I go further into just kind of like what that looked like for me, really the evolution around my friendships and just like dropping some bad habits that I didn't even know I was doing. But when I became aware of them, which the only reason I became aware of them was because of the friction in my friendships. There comes a time where we change like,

how we are oriented in life changes. I think that without this pain that we get from being out of alignment with that we, you know, what I believe a life we came here to create, or you could just say out of alignment with your constitution, your personality, how you wanna live. When we are out of alignment with that, when we don't feel a purpose in it, that brings pain and suffering, right?

So we can either kind of manage that low grade and be like, this is the light. And I feel like I know people firsthand who have chosen that. They've been like, look, I'd rather live in this low grade pain than make all the waves it makes and takes to figure out who I am and what I truly want. And that used to drive me bananas.

And really what it was was like, that's a death, you know? To me, it feels like a death. Like, I see potential in people so easy. And to see someone, in my opinion, give up on themselves, it fucking kills me. And it took me a long time to even realize that was true. So there are some people who do that, and that's fine.

But there are a lot of us who are like, I just can't, I can't do it. I can't be what everyone in my life wants me to be. And that's actually all I know is that I'm not her. And that's like a terrifying place to be. So we come to this junction where we have to choose one. And...

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there is so much friction and annoyance and pain and frustration and stagnation because it's a painful choice. Because they're different enough that it is painful. And so it makes sense that if you are on a healing journey, a spiritual journey, if you feel like you're awakening, if you're trying to expand your awareness or heighten your consciousness, however you say it, I think it's all the same.

It is so normal and it's like a byproduct that of course our relationships will change because relationships, are half of it, you know?

So it makes so much sense to me that often clients would come in and things would come up around friendship. I've had so many clients tell me about friendship and how they feel in friendship. Almost every one of them, it's like, I've had that thought. I know what that is to be that person in that relationship. Even though I've always tried not to be judgmental, that has been, I mean,

I could talk a while about that. That's a journey I've been on for a long time. So I have a PhD in it, essentially. And I was able to cement that non-judgmental vibe so easily in my work. And because my work is all about expanding your awareness and consciousness, I was able to see like, wow, genuinely, when I show up, the more curious and interested I am, the more comfortable

these people are and the more deeper they go and the more they find out and the more they smooth out in their life because of it. And you know how we do one thing is how we do everything or at least most things. And so I wasn't just having that awareness there. I was starting to have that awareness there and appreciate my ability to let go of that judgment. It was a great practice ground for me to be able to

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feel this really tender care for people and be so deep with them and hold just a really loving space for them and guide for them and then to come out of that it was really easy for me to notice even more so like i was so judgmental with that friend or whatever and sometimes the judgments mean something sometimes some of these friends i eventually realized like hey

We are, we have, our paths diverged a while ago and it is too wide, too long of a walk to get over to your path. You know what I mean? Like not worth the energy, not worth the effort. and so I don't want to be someone who judges my friends, you know, essentially is, the decision that it came down to. And so I really worked on that and not judging my friends allowed me to start to see my friends more clearly.

as opposed to being focused on their potential, you know, and all the other shit I was doing in friendship. And it was starting to bleed over like these other ideas that I was playing with and getting downloads of and when I would connect to my higher self, this real feeling of neutrality and that there is no good or bad, that the universe is not good or bad. It just is.

Murder is just, it just happens. Like according to the universe, war, meh, it'll happen. It's an option. But to a human with like love and compassion, at least my perspective of it, I'm against those things, you know? Like I don't want those things to happen. And that idea of, I judge whether something is good or bad was

Like, interesting, because for the last 15 years, I've been on a journey of don't judge. And that would make total sense that right now I'm on a journey of sometimes you do judge and you hold it against them. But it has to be an intentional choice on my part. I want to know why I'm doing it. And I want to feel like, yes, this is in my morals and how I want to live.

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And so that's natural that that perspective kind of bled over as well into my relationships. So as I was trying not to judge or hold it against them, I was also being shown like, people can do whatever they want. Like, it's not up to you. Like that is free will. You were given this life and it is not mine to control. And actually me trying to control your life means probably I'm not in control of mine.

So a few things were unfolding in relationship. The things that stand out about what I was struggling with on my journey and what a lot of clients would come in and at the heart of it kind of be struggling on their end too. Feeling like we show up and we feel like we need to perform on some level. Like we need to consciously be a version of ourself that fits that instead of just being who we are, saying what we say.

thinking about what we think about. And sometimes when you're with a friend, you just talk out loud without filtering yourself, you know? Or feeling like I was, and they would say, like, feeling like you're managing your emotions, managing your reactions, or managing the other person's reactions. I'm fine working on a friendship. I'm fine putting in effort. But I just want it to be, I wanna be

be in it, you know, I don't want to feel like I was performing and then sometimes especially with a few of my closer relationships, it was almost like nothing's technically wrong, but I feel very drained. It was always this feeling of I'd rather not. These are good people, but I just feel the idea of going there exhausts me. There's not like a conflict or anything like that. This drained feeling because

I didn't notice it then, but now I see it. had this subtle vigilance that would run on high all the time, especially around certain people. And it wasn't until I became consciously aware of what that was and how it felt and how drained it made me.

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When I realized that, like, I was like, okay, I'm just gonna go be myself. And a lot of my friendships ended. But yeah, it was this like subtle vigilance. And the vigilance was just like me monitoring myself, what I could say, what I could do, what version of me I could be. Yeah, and then, you know, just sometimes we have this feeling like we out.

grew the other person, you know, like you don't want to hurt them. That's tough too. But here's the thing. I think that when we can get very clear about the energetics underneath it, like you changed and I changed, or here's clearly what happened and we can kind of.

I love hypnotic trance because we can step out of emotions. Emotions are very cloudy to me. They can be very clouding to me. They can be telling too, but it's like once I'm told, I'm like, okay, I got it. Can you stop with the emotions throbbing so I could like get some clarity to be like, how do I handle this? What is really going on in those situations? If we get quiet, go into that hypnotic trance state. If you need to.

access your higher self, access your inner knowing, access your soul self, and get real clarity on like what happened here, what's the change here. And of course that's, know, Seer Sessions is littered with hypnotic journeys for you to, you know, work all kinds of angles of different relationships. This month of course, but also February, and anytime I'm talking about relationship, whether it's a lover or a friend or your

bio family or your parents, you could really just like insert any. So if you see an angle of a hypnotic journey on any sort of relationship, you can take any relationship issue to that. But it's hard. It's so freaking hard. so here I wanted to share some higher self session clips. It's a session that soulful Stephanie facilitated for me last summer. So summer of 2025. Thank you, Stephanie.

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I was going to my higher self energy like a really wise part of my soul. The focus of that session was really like the collective consciousness and what can I know about consciousness that will help me feel essentially that'll help me feel even more me help me release even more influence and programming and brainwashing and outdated beliefs. And I want to share some of those clips with you in these clips. I want even though we're talking about

the higher self or hierarchical language or, you know, dealing with the collective, dealing with a community. These are all just ways of being in relationship. And there are so many hiccups and examples of what that might look like and issues you might have with it. I wanted to be reminded of it, but I think it'll be interesting for you to hear too and just to take those principles with you. When you're in community with people,

when you're examining friendships that maybe don't feel the greatest. Okay, so this first one that I'm gonna share with you was something that I talked about with hierarchical language. And I'm gonna put it in here because I'm drawing the line between, I think when we can release this idea of being on any sort of journey and thinking we're better, higher, more advanced than the people behind us,

and doing it in a way that implies like morality or one is better than the other. And I don't, I'm not doing this in the name of political correctness or anything like that. I'm more doing it because I think, maybe this is more annoying to you than political correctness, hopefully not, but I'm doing it because I think that like evil, if I were to use the word evil,

malevolent energies, that's a way in. Anytime we think we're above someone, someone is literally less than us, that's fine. You might be a better bike rider than me. Yeah, cool. We could prove that a thousand different ways. Great. But in terms of, you better than me? Am I better than you? No, that's, no, we are equal. We are all one.

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We are all given the spark of creation to create a life in this earth suit with other people. If we can really get that into our minds, it would help every community that you step foot in. It would help every relationship that you have. So I'll share this little bit from that session. That's why I wanted to say it. And that's my tie to friendship. This idea of hierarchical language.

And a lot of the information when it's given to me from the red planet, it's given to me in metaphor. And I think that's just because I have an earth suit with a human brain, the capacity at which I can understand certain things is pretty limited. And so in this 3D world, to use words like higher self, higher consciousness, more expanded awareness, all of that I think can come off as

is like hierarchical and kind of judgy and like we're up here and they're down there and I will someday have better words for it but in the meantime I just want to be really clear that I don't think that there is bad or good I think that the universe just is creation just creates and it's a part of a conscious evolution when we say I'm gonna take this creative energy

and I'm gonna make something good with it. We live in a world that is relative. In order to know tall, I need to know short. In order to know hot, I need to know cold. That's the world we live in. So even if I say, this person has a higher frequency than that other person, I personally am not judging either one of them as better or worse than the other ones. I might, depending on why I'm engaging with these people, might have different reasons for engaging with them.

or have different ways to engage with them because of that, but it's not a personal judgment against them. And so I want to be very clear that I am not making that judgment. I am not seeing myself as better than anyone who's on any other part of the path. I think that we are all doing it. It's all happening at once. We are all everything. We have been everything. We will be everything. And so when I use terms like hire,

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better, more expanded, more loving. What I'm talking about is what I want, the values I have in my life. That is the relativity. If I am using like one is better than the other, it's more so one is more in alignment with where I'm going personally. And so as, and then what do we do with the toxic people? What do we do with those low vibe people, groups? Do we need to be around them? Is there any value in

being around low vibe energy or people? It goes back to that word influence. It's not that we should avoid these people, right? Because a lot of these people who are very fearful, closed down, not community minded, that's an expanse, that's a consciousness and awareness that needs to be expanded. And so the way

You know, you get one side of the spectrum that's like all about community, one side's all about family and stuff like that. And it's not that one side is contracted and one side expanded. That's absolutely not true. There's both on each side. But even just taking that idea of like individual versus community, it's there whether we want it or not. So we can come to the conclusion like, this person is actually bad for my mental health. This person.

pulls me down, really what that is, is I don't have the skills to lift myself out of this. And so I am not going to be here until I have the skills to lift myself out of this vibration. And that, it's not, it's such an individual thing. And just because you made one decision in one part of your life to maybe cut someone out or kind of leave a situation,

It doesn't mean that every situation in the future that's similar to it, you're going to do the same thing. So it's, it's not that easy. Having an expanded awareness. feels like wisdom to us. It's someone who can see all the options, see it all choose one. That might be wrong because we don't know. We can't tell the future and stand in conviction with it or give advice and not be attached to the results. So.

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We always have to manage our energy, but it's not just an automatic, they're low vibe, they're out of my life. It's like, no, what is this connection? Who is this person to you? What were you hoping you'd get out of it? What could you get out of it? Had we had this conversation with them? And it's, it's about getting to the heart of it, but when do you cut them off is my question. This is all beautiful, but I'm like, when do you cut a bitch off?

When is enough enough? So let me wait for that answer. Okay, so even there he's like, only you can decide, only you can decide. And that's the scary thing. Anytime you're looking outside of you for, is this right for me? It's not that that's never a thing we do. We naturally seek external validation, but we need to pull ourselves inward. In every situation you have to go, why am I here? What is this worth?

Who is this person to me? What's the history? Does that mean anything? Where am I going? Could I take them with me? Do they want to go with me? Do they want to change? Do they like me? Do they want to keep going with me? It sounds so tedious and annoying, but it's like on an individual basis.

Okay, so, what they're saying is like, when you first start thinking like this, create a higher frequency of energy around you. If you have a lot of people who have drug you down in those situations, it is painful. That's why awakening is painful. Cause we often see, we've been doing it wrong, which is why we awaken. Cause we're in pain because we're doing it wrong and, or out of alignment with what we truly want. And so it's kind of like.

It's annoying. It's annoying. Yeah. But it's on a case by case basis and you just have to figure that out. But to automatically be like this person's slow vibe is it's just not what you would do if you were truly expanding your awareness. Yeah. All right. In this next clip, it's kind of a little bit of a hodgepodge. So the heartbreak that I'm talking about at the beginning.

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is and like how community plays a role in heartbreak. That was actually the center lesson of a past life regression that I did one time. But it is something that that people fear. So I encountered that in a hypnosis session, just the idea of using community to deal with one person's heartbreak, like doing it intentionally. And it not only

That experience for me not only woke me up to this idea of like, that's a role of community. Okay, that makes sense to me. That's appealing to me. And, it also helped me see and work with clients when they would have friendship stuff come up. I would ask if there was like any fear there. And sometimes this fear of getting your heart broken. Like if you've had a bad friend breakup or...

Maybe you just have like trauma in that department and it spills over to your friendships too. Like that can be something that that fear can unconsciously control us. But when we pull that from our subconscious mind and examine it, then we can actually see, I have this. And we can feel if we let it go. Sometimes we can't let it go.

We just have to be mindful of it. You know, there are things that I've tried to change within me that I just can't let go. And so I just have to be mindful of it and watch out for it. And ideally get to know that energy and use it to my advantage if I can somehow. It's this fear of heartbreak that can subconsciously drive us to not get close to people. So I wanted to insert that there. You may or may not resonate with it, of course, just like all of this stuff. And then...

I talk about expanding consciousness with community. And I really want you to keep in mind what I just said in the previous clip about I'm not saying these people are better or worse than other people. For me personally, that's the direction I want to go. I feel more loving, compassionate, wise, peaceful, balanced. The more I understand my conscious awareness, the more I understand what influences and drives me.

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And so to use that in the idea of community and what does that mean with community was such an interesting take for me. And that's just something I love about these sessions is that I come with these questions and I get answers that Gina would never come up with that answer on her own. And it's just, I love it so much. Okay, and then the last little thing this clip touches on, one of the things that was talked about was like how it's good to be in relationship.

in community with people who are a lot like us. You know, like, in Patreon, we're all, if you start talking about past lives, no one's gonna be like, commit this woman to a mental institute. It's like, it's why we're here, you know what I mean? So it's good to be in groups where we feel totally safe, totally the same. You know, whether it's like, wholly, you feel wholly that way, or completely that way.

or maybe just like over the topic that you're coming together. Like that's really important. And then I also got information about how it's also really good to be in community with people who you maybe don't even like. Maybe you kind of disagree with them like fundamentally. I left that in there because you know what? As people are growing, evolving, changing, sometimes our friends can grow and evolve and change in ways where it's like, I hate that.

your perspective and if you choose to assume the good or something that could be that you really want but you're nervous that it won't work out. If it doesn't work out, if you have an expanded awareness, you will be able to learn from it. You'll learn from it from yourself. You'll be able to deal with the heartbreak and you'll have the community of people who will help hold the flame of who you are and how loved you actually are, even when your heart gets broke.

That's what that community does. And that's what they're telling me that on earth. An example of our consciousness being expanded is when you hear people talk, I want more community, I want more community. That's a part of expanding your consciousness because you're willing to deal with other people's bullshit for whatever it is that we get from these people in community. Which is like someone to help, someone to receive help from, someone to just...

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do life besides someone to touch in on a project with and share a laugh or whatever. It's a way to even be around people who are so different than you if, if, you know, at the heart of the community is like an activity that draws different people. So it's, it's about your perspective and your perspective is where you meet it and you choose your perspective. And inevitably when some shit doesn't work out, you know, you can trust yourself, you know, you'll learn from it and you do.

And you integrate it and your community is there loving you through it, reminding you that you're a good person and you'll get through this when you don't think so. And that's, and it's not that everyone in your community needs to be that for you. It's just that as a part of your community, that would be some of it. And so we're learning how to manage that on our own.

And that's kind of like us stepping toward enhancing the collective collective. So not just in these individual communities that we're being drawn toward, but we naturally, it's almost like you go drink from that well of say a spiritual community like kinship. Everything we talked about, everything we learned on those journeys and shared with each other, I was changed by your stories. And that changed the way I showed up and other people learned and benefited from that. And I know that you all are the same.

And so even it's not bad to have kind of an echo chamber, people all the same in certain communities. It's like good to have those different pockets, but it's also knowing that that is an expansion. Yeah. Just to even think community. with that in mind. There it is. That is our episode. I hope that this has helped you get clarity in relationships in a reminder that all month on Seer Sessions, we're talking about friendship.

And so you can examine from even more ways. And you can use hypnosis to do that in three different ways. So a lot of action going on, a lot of ways to look at it. And still, if you have a question, if there's something about friendship that perplexes you, something that's still after going through all of the seer sessions content here in May, something that still plagues you, I want to know, like, how are you doing?

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What's still bothering you? What's still difficult in relationships? And if you want a one-on-one session with someone, I highly recommend Soulful Stephanie. Okay, everybody, I will be back on June 1st with another special episode for you all.