How to Navigate Dating After Divorce or a Breakup
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How to Navigate Dating After Divorce or a Breakup

Dating after a divorce or significant breakup can feel confusing, exhausting, and deeply vulnerable.

You may feel ready to put yourself out there- like you've spent enough time releasing your last relationship...

And yet somehow, you find yourself attracting the same types of people, repeating the same dynamics, or wondering why dating still feels so hard.

The truth is that most women don't struggle because they haven't learned enough dating strategies. They struggle because they haven't identified the unconscious patterns that are quietly running the show.

In this episode, I share a radically different approach to dating after heartbreak - one that moves beyond surface-level advice and helps you understand what's really happening beneath your choices, attractions, and relationship experiences.

We explore:

  • Why time alone doesn't automatically heal relationship patterns
  • The hidden dynamics that keep women attracting the same experiences over and over
  • How your unconscious patterns influence who you're drawn to
  • The difference between genuine compatibility and familiar chemistry
  • Why dating can feel so discouraging when you're unknowingly operating from old wounds
  • What it actually means to prepare for healthy love

Whether you're newly divorced, healing from a breakup, or have been single for years, this conversation will help you see dating through an entirely new lens.

Because finding love isn't about becoming more desirable.

It's about becoming more conscious.

Ready to Go Deeper?

I want to personally invite you to join me for my 3-Day Expanded Love Masterclass.

For over 15 years, I've helped women uncover the hidden patterns that sabotage love, fulfillment, confidence, and the life they truly desire.

The reality is that most women don't realize their patterns are leading. They think their circumstances are the problem. They think they need a better dating app, more confidence, more healing, or a different strategy.

But what if the thing standing between you and the love you want isn't outside of you at all?

Inside the Expanded Love Masterclass, I'll be teaching the 5 unconscious relationship archetypes that sabotage women from creating the extraordinary relationships and lives they're meant to experience.

You'll discover:

  • Why you keep repeating the same relationship dynamics
  • The unconscious behaviours that block intimacy, connection, and love
  • How your patterns show up in dating, relationships, work, friendships, and life
  • What it takes to step into a new way of relating to yourself and others
  • How to move from surviving love to truly experiencing it

This isn't about fixing yourself. It's about finally seeing what has been running your life behind the scenes. Because when your patterns stop leading, everything changes.

Join me June 19–21

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Pacific daily

Live on Zoom

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This work has changed thousands of women's lives, and I would love for you to experience it.

If you're ready for deeper love, deeper freedom, and a deeper relationship with yourself, this is where we begin.

About the Host:

Kate Harlow is the founder of The Unscriptd Woman, the creator of The Expanded Love Coaching Method, and host of The New Truth podcast - ranked in the top 1.5% globally. With over 15 years of experience teaching, coaching and facilitating transformational retreats worldwide, Kate has helped hundreds of thousands of women break free from outdated relational patterns, old patriarchal ways of thinking and unspoken rules to live by.

Her infallible methods guide women to release the deeply ingrained scripts that keep them stuck- empowering women to step into their highest, most magnetic, and fully expressed selves. Through her coaching, retreats, podcast and upcoming book The Unscriptd Woman, Kate is redefining what it means to be an empowered woman in today's world, showing women how to stop waiting for permission and start creating a life and love that aligns with their deepest truth.

Known for her rare ability to see exactly where women are out of alignment with themselves, Kate offers a path back to unwavering self- trust, meaningful joy and true fulfillment. Her work is a revolution - one that liberates women from societal expectations and invites them into a life of radical authenticity, thriving relationships and unshakable self-worth.

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If you're dating again after a divorce or

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breakup, you're putting yourself out there, maybe you're starting

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a new relationship. Understanding your saboteur

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intimately is everything. This is the first step. When you're

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out there dating, you want to write a new story. Yes, right?

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If you, if you're not no longer with your husband or with your

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partner, and you're, you're single again, and you're out

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there dating, or you're starting a new relationship. Do you want

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to have a new experience, or do you want to have the exact same

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one you had before? Your saboteur will try and make it

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the same as the one before.

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Hello, beautiful. Welcome back to the New Truth Podcast. Kate

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Harlow here, tuning in from Nairobi, Kenya. I have a couple

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more weeks left here in Nairobi, and then I am off to America.

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First, I'll stop in Paris for a couple days, meeting a friend

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there, and then I will head to California for two weeks, which

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is fun. I'm going to see Mariana, my soulmate. As those

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of you who know Marianna, she's been on the podcast many times,

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and she, she's in California right now, because her mama,

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she's kind of spending more quality time with her mama in

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Orange County, so I'm going to go visit her for a couple of

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weeks, and I'm doing a workshop, weekend workshop for my

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beautiful heroine sisters in Ojai at the very end of the

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trip, and then I head to Vancouver for five weeks, and

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then I will fly from Vancouver to Greece, stop over and visit

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my friends in Greece in September, and then back to

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Nairobi later in September. So there's my travel schedule. Case

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you were wondering, Where in the World is Kate Harlow? There used

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to be a TV show, I don't know if it was just in Canada, but it

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was, where in the world is Carmen Sandiego, and it was this

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like man who was always just somewhere in the world, and he,

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there was a big world map, and yeah, he would go on these

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adventures, that's all I remember, but now it's where in

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the world is Kate Harlow, so I am enjoying my last couple weeks

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at the cottage, I have a dear friend here, Brandy. Shout out

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to Brandy for those of you, many of you who've worked with me

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know Brandy, because she comes to the immersion and all my

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events. She's magical, and she's staying with me at the cottage,

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so it's really nice to have visitors and to share my magical

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space, which now she wants one. She wants a cottage exactly the

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same as mine. It's such a cute space, so yeah, feeling

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grateful. And what else do I have to share with you? I

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usually give you little personal updates at the beginning of each

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episode. I, well, the Expanded Love Masterclass is coming up,

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and if you are available the 19th, 20th, 20-first of June.

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Register, I have now made it free, so it was 20-$2 but now

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it's totally free, because my heart was just like, I just want

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as many women there as possible, so that you can receive this

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information. The understanding your saboteur is essential, and

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we're going to talk so much about that today, for

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relationships, for work relationships, for your purpose,

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for really learning how to create a life that you love, you

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must intimately know your saboteur, and every woman I've

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ever worked with will agree, I'm sure, share with you how

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important it is, because most of us believe our saboteur is our

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personality, like that's just who we are. Oh, it's just my

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personality. I'm just super overly emotional, or I'm a

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perfectionist, or I'm a controller. I'm a.. I just am a

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people pleaser, right? We just think these ways of being are

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our nature, but they're actually not our nature at all. They're

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learned, and so I hope you enjoyed last week's episode with

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Jackie Jade. That was such a special conversation with the

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woman who I've worked with for a couple of years now, and just

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witnessing her completely reclaim herself, her life, meet

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new parts of herself, and she is absolutely, in every sense of

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the word, a completely different woman to the woman I met three

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years ago, and that's the same, is true for every woman who just

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did the immersion.

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We just did our follow-up, second follow-up immersion call.

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We have these integration calls after, and every single one of

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them is so different, and now they're most of them are coming

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to meet me in Ojai in July. It's so profound to see a woman like

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really start to understand. Wait a second, I am not my patterns,

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like that is the most important thing for you to know. And

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there's so many layers to these patterns that studying them and

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understanding them is essential. So, circling back to the

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Expanded Love Masterclass, June 19, 20th, 20-first is the dates,

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it's from 8am Pacific till 10am Pacific every day, Friday,

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Saturday, Sunday, and it is absolutely the most amazing

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experience. So this is Expanded Love Masterclass, where I teach

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the five saboteur archetypes, and we're going to go through

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them today, and you're going to have such a. Deep understanding,

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not only for what the pattern is, but also what the gift is.

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It's so important to understand what the gift is in the pattern,

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because we're not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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Each pattern has inherently has really important gifts that are

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a reflection of your heroine, of your soul. And so this weekend

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I'm going to teach you all about the patterns that are different

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archetypes that the saboteur plays out, most women have all

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of them happening at the same time. It's very common because

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we've really been deeply programmed to be all of them as

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women. And so each day I'm going to go through two archetypes.

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The first day I'm going to do some teaching first, and then

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the first archetype, then the next two, then the next two, and

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we'll do a Q and A on the on the Sunday at the end, and I'll give

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you little assignments each night to do some reflecting on

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on understanding yours, but this is like a weekend of true self

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love, because true self love, I so many women are trying to do

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self love from hating themselves and from being in their saboteur

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and in their small self, and it is nearly impossible. I tried to

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master this when I was in my saboteur full time, and I really

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tried to embody self-love, and I couldn't, because it was my

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saboteur that was trying to do it. So, the first step in

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breaking free from living life in a way that feels bad, aka you

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have anxiety, or you have depression, or you are

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constantly questioning everything, or you're constantly

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in your head worrying about everything, or you're constantly

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disappointed by other people, or you isolate yourself, and you

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hide in your apartment, and you don't actually go, you know,

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connect with people deeply, or nobody sees who you really are,

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or whatever, whatever patterns are playing out for you. This is

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the part of you that you need to understand intimately, so that

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she doesn't have the power over you anymore. Because when you

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learn to build a healthy, loving relationship with this part of

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you, but no longer identify with her, she will not be so strong,

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and now you have choice. Now you have awareness. First step, then

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you have choice, choice to make have new experiences to see

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things differently. But if you think your patterns are just who

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you are, right, Joe Dispenza says our personality is simply

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our personal reality that we developed based on our

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conditioning, right, based on the world around us, based on

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what every system around us taught us who to be. All the

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systems that taught us who to be something other than who we are.

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What systems are my talking about? Your family system, your

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school system, the media system, the government system, the

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pharmaceutical system, the what else, beauty system, beauty

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industry, religious systems. Like, there are countless

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systems that you were raised in that morphed you and brainwashed

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you into believing who you had to be in this lifetime in order

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to survive, in order to be safe, in order to get love,

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acceptance, approval from society, from people in your

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life, and so there is a little girl inside of every single

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woman and man, but we're talking to women here, if you're a man,

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though, this is for you, that is running the show, and this

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system, as at, like, it, it's actually like Chat GPT, okay?

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This is like a robot that's just like waiting for you. She's

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ready, she's got a story. How many? How many times have you

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made up a story immediately just based on someone's facial

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expression? Like someone looks at you funny and right away

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you're like, oh my god, they're mad at me. It must have been

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that thing I said last week and did, and the story gets written

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immediately. It's the same as ChatGPT, like you asked ChatGPT

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to write an email, even a complex one. I want to say she,

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because mine's called Lulu. She does it immediately. It's like,

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so fast. Like, how could you possibly write that email so

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fast? Your saboteur is the same. Your saboteur will write a story

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so fast that you can't even question it. You're like, oh, it

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must be true. It's like right here, waiting for me. That is

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your saboteur. So, understanding your saboteur intimately is a

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game changer, especially if you were dating again. You clicked

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on this episode because you're dating. I know a lot of you

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listen to every episode, regardless if you're married or

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if it's relevant to you or not, but this is relevant to

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everyone. If you're dating again after a divorce or breakup,

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you're putting yourself out there, maybe you're starting a

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new relationship. Understanding your saboteur intimately is

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everything. This is the first step. So, I've kind of already

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started the episode without realizing it. That's the first

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step, right? You have to intimately know your saboteur.

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Why? Because when you're out there dating, you want to write

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a new story. Yes, right. If you, if you're not no longer with

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your husband or with your partner, and you're, you're

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single again, and you're out there dating, or you're starting

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a new relationship, do you want to have a new experience, or do

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you want to have the exact same one you had before? Your

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saboteur will try and make it the same as the one before.

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Compare, you know, this new person to to past partners, and,

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and, and she'll probably be like, oh, I never want what I

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had in the past again, until this new person's in front of

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you, and then she'll be like, your ex used to do these things,

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now this guy's not, there must be something wrong with him, or

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like, maybe he's not the right one, because he's not doing all

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those things, meanwhile you're in that relationship, not, you

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know, disappointed by all the things that guy was and wasn't

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doing, and now you know, projecting it onto this future

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person. So, the most important thing going into relationship is

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that you allow a new relationship to occur, but we

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don't do that. What does the saboteur do? The saboteur paints

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a new story, pardon me, an old story onto the new person.

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Right, as soon as you start dating, your saboteurs

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projecting all over that person, projecting what you don't want

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them to be based on your last relationship, projecting what

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you want them to be, projecting all your wounds, all your hurts.

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She's walking in with guards around her heart, because she's

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like, 'Hey, I've been hurt in the past before, and I don't

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want that to happen again, so I'm going to be like walking on

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eggshells here, or I'm going to be looking for red flags, or I'm

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going to be on high alert, trying to make sure you're not

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that person, right? But what that is, do what you're doing in

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that moment is you're actually recreating the same situation,

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because you're walking into that date, or this new relationship

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with all your baggage, you're wearing like a, you know, 50

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kilogram bag on your back, and you're like falling backwards,

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exhausted, like dripping with sweat, because you're taking all

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your baggage into that next relationship. Now it doesn't

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allow anything new to happen. The reality is every new person

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we attract into our lives, whether it's short term dating

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or long term dating or long term relationship, is we, we are, we

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attract people for a reason, right? You attract new people to

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have new experiences, and to grow, and to evolve, and to

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outgrow these old ways of being, and to step into new ways of

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being, even if the relationship doesn't serve the purpose of a

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romantic relationship forever and ever, right?

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Most people go into relationship thinking that's the only option,

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you need to ditch that. If you go into relationship, even with

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a preconceived idea of what you're looking for, you are not

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present in the moment, you are projecting all over that person,

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that is your baggage, right? That is your conditioning, that

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is the story. It doesn't mean that you won't find a partner,

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someone who's so compatible with you that you grow with and

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evolve with and keep deepening with. That's absolutely a

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possibility, but you're not going to know till later, right?

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But if you go into a date looking for your husband, you

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are not in the present moment, you're projecting a fantasy

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story onto that person, and you're missing the opportunity

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to really be in an experience. Okay, so in order to date for

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your hair from your heroine, there has to be a new story, at

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which there has to be a blank canvas, right? The only way we

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really live from the heroine is when we greet every single

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opportunity from a blank canvas. I am new, I'm present, I am in

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this experience, I am with this opportunity. I'm just here right

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now, and I'm going to learn, and I'm going to notice all of the

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times my smaller self shows up and my saboteur shows up and she

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paints a fantasy story. Okay, now that's one of the saboteur

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archetypes for the masterclass coming up the 19th to the

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20-first, 8am till 10am Pacific every morning. You have to join

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us in the masterclass and get intimate with your saboteur. The

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first archetype is the fantasy addict, right? The fantasy

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addict goes on new dates, and she's got a checklist. She is

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looking to fill a role, right? She doesn't care about who's in

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front of her, like really. Of course, she wants to have the

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perfect guy, the perfect fit, the one Prince Charming, mr.

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Conscious King, whatever language you're using, your

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fantasy addict goes in, and she's already decided, I want to

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get married, I want to have 3.5 kids, I want to have a big

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event, I want to live in that place, I want to have a happily

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ever afterlife, and we're going to have a golden retriever,

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right? Your fantasy addicts is already pre-decided. Okay, this

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is dangerous, and it's not your fault, because every single

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movie we watch our whole dire lives, this is this is part of

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the program, right? Just get out there. If you're dating, you're

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not dating to have an experience. If you're dating,

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you are dating to meet the love of your life, and to get to that

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end goal, but I tell you, all the women who just got to that

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end goal from that place of trying to fill a role weren't

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actually connected to their hearts, weren't actually

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connected to trusting the divine orchestration of life, weren't

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actually pressing. Listen to what was truly happening, and

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then guess where they end up. They end up getting to the next

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benchmark, getting to the next benchmark, getting to the next

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benchmark, getting to the next benchmark, and then they wake up

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one day crying in their closet as Jackie Jade shared last last

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episode. If you have not listened to that episode, go

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back, it's incredible. She's so vulnerable and shares her

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amazing story of re of reactivating and re-sparking her

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marriage with her husband, that was over when we met, which is

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absolutely also possible when your saboteur is no longer

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leading your life, but that she had so many moments crying in

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her closet, because it's like we've been taught that all we

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need to do as women is to get, get those things, and then we're

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going to feel amazing once we get there, right? Once we get to

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the destination, then we're going to feel amazing. It is

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such a setup, it's such a setup, because the reality is that one

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thing ain't going to give you what you're looking for, even if

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you have the most amazing human on planet earth that you are so

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aligned with, that cannot be the thing, right? And if your

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fantasy addict is the one going on dates and she's just trying

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to fill the role, you will miss all the moments that your gut is

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like this is actually a no, this doesn't feel right, right?

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Your saboteur will be like no, but it looks great on paper.

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Look at his resume, this guy's like an absolute catch, right?

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He's got a perfect resume, so that's an example of the

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fantasiatic saboteur on date. She is way in the future, so

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concerned about where she's going, and you have been

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programmed to put all of your energy there, not just in your

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relationships, in every area of your life, that all our energy

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and attention goes to the plan, where are we going, right, but

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all the people who have the most amazing plan, and they're on

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this journey of like checking the boxes and crushing the plan.

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Most of them are completely missing what's happening right

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here, right now. So that's why you have to learn to date from

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your heroine, but when the little girl and your saboteur in

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charge, that's what's going to happen, right? The self

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sacrificer is the second saboteur archetype we're going

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to unpack deeply at the masterclass, but I mean, pretty

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self-explanatory. The self-sacrificer's like ready to

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sacrifice herself at all costs, like I will do anything, I will

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do whatever it takes. Oh, this guy is showing some interest in

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me. Yeah, I'll drop all my plans with my friends, I'll do what he

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wants me to do. I'll cook him dinner and try and impress him,

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and like sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice. I'll.. and then what

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happens with self-sacrifices in relationships when they become

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long term is they become like moms, and I've worked with so

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many mom types. It's usually the self sacrifice or controller

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blend, but they. they start to do everything for the man, like

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he is incapable. In the beginning, it's like to impress

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him to be a woman, to be based on our conditioning, to be like,

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show him all the love, and then one day it's like he looks to

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you like you're his mother, right? That's what happens with

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the self sacrificer in dating, so the self sacrificer doesn't

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like, she's not solid in herself, she's not solid in her.

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Oh, actually, I'm not available Tuesday, but let's look at next

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week. She's like, "Oh my gosh, I just want to see you. Let me

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drop everything. Let me drop my life. Let me ditch everyone,

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because all I want is to see you again, right? That's a little

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girl. So that's the second one. The third one is the isolator,

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and there's so many layers to these, like I'm giving you the

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tip of the iceberg. The masterclass is a game changer.

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It's on Zoom, so you'll get to meet other amazing women.

Kate Harlow:

There'll be women who've worked with me for the last couple

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years, and or many years, who really deeply understand their

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saboteurs, and there'll be brand new women, but it's such a great

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place to feel inspired, because I'm also going to teach you how

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to break free from these leading your relationships and dating

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and life, but especially after breakup and divorce. The last

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thing you want to do is recreate the same thing, and then end up

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in the same place if you want to have a healthy relationship and

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a new type of relationship where you get to actually experience

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intimacy, where you get to actually grow, where you get to

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be your fullest self, and be fucking adored for being your

Kate Harlow:

fullest self. You have to do it differently, right? You have to

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get intimate with your saboteur, you have to understand your

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patterns, you have to understand this AI version of you that is

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like just living in your mind, ready to tell you all the things

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to do, because she is, she's leading for most women. So the

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third one is the isolator, and the isolator, so calm. I work

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with a lot of isolated women, I mean, and self-sacrifice, or I

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mean, come on, all women. Their self sacrifices, and we're all

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in fantasy, because we've all been brainwashed. Really, the

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only relationship model we know is the fantasy one. So, nobody

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has been taught how to, like, let relationships organically

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unfold and let life surprise you. No, that's not at all the

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story. The story is like, you got to know where it's going,

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and it's going to be happily ever after, forever and ever.

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So, we're all all of them, for sure. Isolator is the woman who

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goes on dates and doesn't really share, right?

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She's not vulnerable, she's guarded, she's typically a great

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listener and has developed the ability to be a great friend,

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but not really, because she doesn't let people in and nobody

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knows her, right, but she's really great at listening and

Kate Harlow:

giving other people attention. Typically, isolators end up

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attracting friends who are really verbose and take up all

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the space. The Leos in the room, who nobody else gets airtime,

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isolators are magnets to people like that, because then they

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don't have to take up space, they can hide in that room,

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right? The isolator feels like they don't belong in any room

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they go into, so they feel alone, whether they're in

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relationship or not. So, isolators dating, it's going to

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be really uncomfortable to date, because dating is vulnerable,

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right? So, typically, isolators might not even put themselves

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out there at all, or if they are, you know, they'll be so

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stuck in their, in their freeze mode that they have a hard time,

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like really letting someone in and deepening in intimacy, and

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the fourth one is the controller. This is the woman

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who becomes the mom, right? The controller is the part of you

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that is trying to control where it's going, right? The

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controller is like waiting for the text message back, and it

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hasn't come in the timing you wanted it to, so she's looking

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and judging the guy, and at, oh, this can't be right, and then

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she's like, got to go over there, that's not enough, this

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guy's not good enough, she's like, look, oh, that's a red

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flag, she's looking to control it, or she's like, oh, this

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guy's perfect, I got to make this happen, I got to call him

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again, I got to book another date, I got to, I got to

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control, we got to get to the next thing, she's the one that's

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giving the ultimatum, the controller is the one that gives

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the ultimatum, like, hey, if you won't marry me, I'm out. If you

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won't propose to me by Valentine's Day, I'm out. That's

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the controller. She's trying to control the fantasy story rather

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than let the relationship organically unfold. And if

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something doesn't feel aligned internally, at some point she

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lets it go. That's the heroine, right? But the controller, she's

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going to control how it goes. She's going to control how she's

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perceived. The controller once, and again, hybrid with fantasy

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addict, those ones go hand in hand. The controller likes to

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control people's perception of her, so she does everything

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herself. She's got this very independent, but it's like

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always controlling people's perception of her has to be

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perfect, maybe look perfect, maybe act perfect. She has

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really high stat, high expectations. I'd say maybe not

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standards expectations. Feels disappointed a lot, and yeah,

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she'll be in charge planning. So typically controllers end up

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attracting men that don't lead because she's taken the lead,

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and that's because she's taking the lead. It's rooted in fear,

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right? So all of these saboteur patterns are rooted in fear, and

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yet that's the part that most of us are letting lead

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relationships and dating, right? We're letting our fear lead, and

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when your fear leads, you get more fear, right? The more

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afraid you are, and the more you try and control the situation,

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so that you don't like it's all in the name of trying to like

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feel safe, quote unquote, but actually it does the opposite.

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Your saboteur creates the thing she's trying to protect you

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from, she's trying to get safety, but she's creating a lot

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of lack of safety because she's trying to control life, which is

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absolutely out of your control. She's trying to control another

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person, which is absolutely out of your control, and even if

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they let you control them, it's not going to be a spicy, sexy

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time, because you're going to be attracting someone else's

Kate Harlow:

saboteur, like that's the thing, when you're dating from your

Kate Harlow:

saboteur, from your patterns, you're going to be attracting

Kate Harlow:

someone else's patterns, you're going to be attracting someone

Kate Harlow:

else's saboteurs, that that's the perfect match to you, right?

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Then you have a kid and a teenager in a relationship, and

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they're just like doing this dance, and it might be really

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spicy and fun at first, that's a fantasy addict, that's like mock

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zero to 100 My God, this is amazing. Is the best man I've

Kate Harlow:

ever met.

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This, like, this is what I've been waiting for. And we like

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write all these stories in the beginning. That's the fantasy

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addict, right? When this part is leading, that's what you're

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gonna get, right? Be careful what part of you you bring on

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dates with you. So that's the controller. The fourth, the last

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one is the shape shifter, and the shape shifter is the part of

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you that does not have a solid sense of self. In fact, none of

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them have a solid sense of self, because it's all little girl and

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saboteur. But the shape shifter is the ones like, who do I need

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to be so that I am liked? And so the shapeshifter is kind of like

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getting to know this person they're on a date with, and

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they're trying to. Morph themselves to that person, like

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maybe you shape shift your opinions, maybe you shape shift

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your, your calendar, maybe you shapeshift like you're basically

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not rooted. This is the woman who says, I've lost myself in

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relationship again. I always lose myself in relationship, and

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the reality is, when you have yourself, when you're actually

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sovereign and rooted in who you are. You cannot lose yourself in

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relationship. We only lose ourselves in relationship when

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we never had ourselves to begin with. And so, because when you

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have yourself and you know yourself, like all of the women

Kate Harlow:

who've just been on the immersion journey with me the

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last year know this, it's like you know when your small self is

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there, because you've experienced your fullest, most

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rooted, expanded self. The women who work with me and come to the

Kate Harlow:

immersion, like they experience their most sovereign selves, and

Kate Harlow:

so they know when their saboteurs hijack them, even if

Kate Harlow:

it's like just for an hour or 30 minutes or a week, like every

Kate Harlow:

woman knows what her saboteur feels like and what a hijack

Kate Harlow:

feels like, because it's not who you are. And when you know your

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expansive self, your relaxed self, your grounded self, your

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rooted self, your sovereign self, fear is not in charge

Kate Harlow:

anymore, and yet most people are making all of their life

Kate Harlow:

decisions and relating from fear, trying to get love, trying

Kate Harlow:

to get attention, trying to get approval, trying to get this

Kate Harlow:

person to give them something, to give them some sense of

Kate Harlow:

relief temporarily, and then the saboteur wants more, right, the

Kate Harlow:

shape shifter, the fantasy addict that's waiting for

Kate Harlow:

another hit, like, oh, he texted again. Okay, now I feel good.

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Oh, I feel relieved. Okay, now I'm confident. And then, like,

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an hour later, you're like, "Oh my god, but he didn't respond to

Kate Harlow:

my message, like, "Oh. And then the confidence goes out the

Kate Harlow:

window. That's the little girl. So, the practice is not about

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your saboteur being gone forever. Your saboteur is always

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going to be there, and every new level of growth and every new

Kate Harlow:

level of deepening within yourself, a saboteur is going to

Kate Harlow:

get loud when you're going through a big growth spurt. When

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there's a new part of yourself you're tapping into, should

Kate Harlow:

going to get really loud, and if you are not intimate with this

Kate Harlow:

part of you, it is so hard to reestablish a new relationship

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from a blank canvas from a storybook that's blank that

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you're letting unfold organically, right, to allow you

Kate Harlow:

to be in your heroin dating, or to experience being in your

Kate Harlow:

heroin dating. You have to know your saboteur and your small

Kate Harlow:

self intimately, so you have the reference point of when she

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arises. Now I can do something different if I have awareness,

Kate Harlow:

if I have practices and tools to be able to meet that part of

Kate Harlow:

myself and love up that part of myself. So she's not the one

Kate Harlow:

engaging with this person, so she's not the one showing up on

Kate Harlow:

dates. Like this is an opportunity for you to grow into

Kate Harlow:

your sovereignty, but if you don't know your sneaky saboteur

Kate Harlow:

intimately, they are sneaky, then most likely she's going to

Kate Harlow:

be leading your dating and leading your new relationships,

Kate Harlow:

and that's why new relationships feel so good in the beginning,

Kate Harlow:

and then they feel so bad, because what goes up must come

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down, right?

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In the beginning, the fantasy addicts like, oh my god, finally

Kate Harlow:

a man that does this, that, and the other, that's like this, and

Kate Harlow:

she's like, all in a high, I've met the one, this is it forever,

Kate Harlow:

and she's like way up on the roof, what goes up must come

Kate Harlow:

down, then she comes crashing down the moment his behavior

Kate Harlow:

changes, because the honeymoon, quote unquote, it's over, and

Kate Harlow:

all the honeymoon is is the phase where everybody's on their

Kate Harlow:

best behavior, but mostly it's from pattern, right? We think

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it's like we're meeting people's authentic selves, but really

Kate Harlow:

everyone's on their best behavior, being the perfect

Kate Harlow:

little controller fantasy addict. Put it on a show, like,

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here, let me show you all my best parts of myself, and let

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me, like, make you think I'm the most amazing person, so you give

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me love, right? This is extractive love, and it's the

Kate Harlow:

codependent relationship model that most people only know that

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one. This is extractive love. I'm trying to get something from

Kate Harlow:

you in this situation, rather than I'm coming to this state,

Kate Harlow:

and I'm not trying to get anything. I'm not trying to

Kate Harlow:

interview you for a role in my future. I'm not trying to get

Kate Harlow:

attention or approval or validation, but I'm actually

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showing on this date so full in myself, so connected, so alive.

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My heart feels satiated. I am in pleasure. I am full, right? I am

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full with myself. And then I show up on this date, rather

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than starving for your attention. I show up in the

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state full, and then I sit here from my innocent part of my

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heroine, and I look at you, and I'm like, oh, who are you? And

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I'm curious, and I'm like, even if you're not my type, quote

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unquote, even if my mom. My saboteur has stories as to why

Kate Harlow:

you're right or wrong, or good or bad, or not. I'm just present

Kate Harlow:

and curious, because there's a reason you're sitting in front

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of me right now, even if it's just for one date. There's a

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reason we are here right now, and I'm going to be here right

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now with my heart open, with my spine tall, with my feet rooted

Kate Harlow:

on the ground, on the earth, and I'm going to meet you, and we

Kate Harlow:

can get curious about this human in front of me, and I'm going to

Kate Harlow:

let you experience a new kind of relating, because probably

Kate Harlow:

you're a man out there on dates with women who are in their

Kate Harlow:

saboteurs, in their fantasy addicts, doing job interviews,

Kate Harlow:

trying to control the process and control whether this is

Kate Harlow:

right or wrong, whether you're going to go in the red flag

Kate Harlow:

category, or you're going to go in the green flag category. That

Kate Harlow:

is how most women date. So, to be the breath of fresh air that

Kate Harlow:

walks into a date so full, so connected, heart open, curious,

Kate Harlow:

but not in a fantasy of where's this going in the future. And if

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you can bring that energy into every single date and every

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single phase of a relationship, you are going to experience the

Kate Harlow:

new paradigm, even if you and your partner, five years in,

Kate Harlow:

were like deepening in love through vulnerability, through

Kate Harlow:

trans, like having transformations, growing

Kate Harlow:

individually, growing together, and you decide, like, hey, let's

Kate Harlow:

get married, just for fun, not because we're promising the

Kate Harlow:

future, but because we just want a new experience, and we want to

Kate Harlow:

experience a new phase of being together. Even then, can you sit

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in the, in the not knowing where it's going, right, rather than

Kate Harlow:

sit in the fantasy that, oh, now we're together forever, that's

Kate Harlow:

bullshit. So many people that are married don't stay together

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forever, and also, if you do, but you believe it's always

Kate Harlow:

going to be there, you're going to take it for granted, you're

Kate Harlow:

going to totally not honor it, you're going to think the box is

Kate Harlow:

checked, and you're going to not put attention into it, right?

Kate Harlow:

But if every day inside of your relationship you have to, you

Kate Harlow:

have to be present with this relationship, because you don't

Kate Harlow:

know how long it's going to be here, even if you're married.

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Like, what a gift to be able to meet your relationship every

Kate Harlow:

day, and be like, how is the relationship? How am I? How are

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you?

Kate Harlow:

And like, everyone's sovereign, everyone's taking responsibility

Kate Harlow:

for themselves, for their pain, for their pleasure, and you're

Kate Harlow:

bringing your fullest selves to each other, and you're having

Kate Harlow:

this new experience like that will keep your relationship

Kate Harlow:

alive. But the old paradigm doesn't want us to do that. The

Kate Harlow:

old paradigm is like, stick that butterfly in a jar and put the

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lid on it, because you want to keep it forever, right? And then

Kate Harlow:

you stick the jar on a shelf and the butterfly's dead in like 10

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minutes, or I don't know how long it would take to suffocate

Kate Harlow:

the butter, poor butterfly. There, speaking of butterflies,

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there's like 10 million butterflies in my yard today.

Kate Harlow:

Brandy and I were sitting outside basking in the magic of

Kate Harlow:

the butterflies and the crickets and all these magical little

Kate Harlow:

creatures, lizards in my jungle yard, but anyways, the

Kate Harlow:

butterfly, like that's the relationship model we've been

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taught, right? You want to know it's locked down for the future

Kate Harlow:

rather than actually meet it every day with fresh eyes, meet

Kate Harlow:

it every day with radical self responsibility, with fully

Kate Harlow:

taking responsibility for your shit, for your pain. That's why

Kate Harlow:

you got to know your saboteur, you got to know what's yours, my

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loves. And I, you know, it doesn't matter how long you've

Kate Harlow:

been on the path. We all have so much come up when we're dating

Kate Harlow:

and in relationship. It is incredibly vulnerable to have

Kate Harlow:

feelings for someone to open your heart, especially after

Kate Harlow:

you've been hurt. It is so uncomfortable to sit in front of

Kate Harlow:

someone you deeply care about and know you have to just trust

Kate Harlow:

the unfolding that is vulnerable. I'm not saying what

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I'm sharing is easy, however, if you do not get intimate with

Kate Harlow:

your saboteur, if you do not take the time to the end, I want

Kate Harlow:

to say the due diligence to actually get to know your side

Kate Harlow:

of the street, clean up what you did in past relationships that

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was yours, right? If you're still in a story that my ex was

Kate Harlow:

the worst. Now I'm going to attract a new person who's going

Kate Harlow:

to be better. Your saboteur is going to do your relationship

Kate Harlow:

right if you're not owning your side of the street, if you're

Kate Harlow:

not looking intimately and going, okay, I need to figure

Kate Harlow:

out what was mine, even if your partner cheated on you 400 times

Kate Harlow:

and it was like you thought he was a great guy and he was a,

Kate Harlow:

you know, liar or whatever, even if it's a horror story, you

Kate Harlow:

still had a part, and you until you take responsibility for your

Kate Harlow:

life and for what you bring to relationships, and also your

Kate Harlow:

relationship with your, your mother-in-law, and your

Kate Harlow:

relationship with your, or your mom, or your dad, or your, your

Kate Harlow:

ex best friend, or your boss, like whoever is triggering you.

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My love, you are the common denominator, you need to know

Kate Harlow:

your part. So, join us at the Masterclass. Get intimate with

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your saboteur. Get to know her. This work is so playful because

Kate Harlow:

you get to know your saboteur. She has a name, she has a

Kate Harlow:

personality, she's your little like robot self that you

Kate Harlow:

developed when you're a child to stay safe, and now she's hurting

Kate Harlow:

you. Now she's. Sabotaging you, and if you just let yourself get

Kate Harlow:

intimate with her, build a relationship with her, but not

Kate Harlow:

let her lead, but start to get to know her so much more as

Kate Harlow:

possible. That relationship, that intimacy, that pleasure,

Kate Harlow:

that connection that you crave, you can only experience it from

Kate Harlow:

sovereignty. True, you can only truly, other people might have

Kate Harlow:

it from their saboteurs, but they're not really experiencing

Kate Harlow:

until you really know how to be present, be in your heart, and

Kate Harlow:

live from the trusting of life unfolding and bringing you what

Kate Harlow:

you're meant to experience, and live in a harmonious, loving

Kate Harlow:

relationship with you, and owning all of your parts, and be

Kate Harlow:

having self awareness through these journeys until you have

Kate Harlow:

that deep level of self awareness. You will push love

Kate Harlow:

away, you will sabotage it, you will have it, but you won't be

Kate Harlow:

able to receive it.

Kate Harlow:

You'll, your fear will take over, and you'll constantly be

Kate Harlow:

chasing something that that person can never satiate, and

Kate Harlow:

eventually they'll give up, because that, I mean, that's the

Kate Harlow:

number one complaint of men in relationships, is nothing I ever

Kate Harlow:

do is enough. Kate, nothing I ever do is enough. She's never

Kate Harlow:

satisfied. Why? Because she's trying to get him to fill that

Kate Harlow:

void inside and make her feel good enough. So, until you learn

Kate Harlow:

how to be in relationship with your saboteur and heroine, so

Kate Harlow:

your heroine can love that little girl inside, instead of

Kate Harlow:

your saboteur trying to get it from a man. You will constantly

Kate Harlow:

chase feeling good enough in relationship, and you'll never

Kate Harlow:

feel good enough. And it is a self only for short periods of

Kate Harlow:

time, and it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, and it will sabotage

Kate Harlow:

all your relationships, which is why it's called a saboteur, so

Kate Harlow:

even if your relationships last, it'll sabotage you from really

Kate Harlow:

receiving the relationship, and the intimacy, and the depth, and

Kate Harlow:

the connection that you deserve. So, my loves, so much more as

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possible. June 19, 220-first two hours every morning, eight if

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you're in that time zone, might be the afternoon if you're in

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another part of the world, two hours every morning, 810 Pacific

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on Zoom. We'll put the link under this episode, we'll put it

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in in the show notes, so we'll put it everywhere on my

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Instagram, on my website. So definitely register for the free

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three day expanded love masterclass. Let it totally

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change your life, but it's not going to change your life

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without you showing up differently. But show up every

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morning, and with the devotion to, I'm going to learn my side

Kate Harlow:

of the street, I'm going to figure out what is mine, so I

Kate Harlow:

can have the most amazing relationships of all kinds, not

Kate Harlow:

just romantic. Like, your life will be your quality of your

Kate Harlow:

life will be astronomically better when you have sovereign

Kate Harlow:

relationships, your friendships will be so much more meaningful,

Kate Harlow:

so much more intimate, so much more connected, and inspiring.

Kate Harlow:

If you, if you are in your saboteur, you're going to

Kate Harlow:

attract women in their saboteurs, and your

Kate Harlow:

relationships are going to be built on gossiping, complaining,

Kate Harlow:

victim mentality, fakeness, right? The only way you can have

Kate Harlow:

true thriving relationships in all facets is when you're in the

Kate Harlow:

sovereign woman, which is your heroine, and if you don't know

Kate Harlow:

your saboteur, you're not going to know your heroine. I can

Kate Harlow:

promise you that. So, join us the 19th, 20-first. See you

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there. Lots of love. I hope you enjoyed this episode, and share

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it with every woman who you know needs to hear

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