Why do so many incredible women keep attracting unavailable partners, overgiving in relationships, or walking away from healthy love without even realizing it?
The answer isn't a lack of worthiness, bad timing, or not having met "the one." More often than not, it's the unconscious patterns running beneath the surface.
In this episode, Kate unpacks the hidden ways women unknowingly sabotage the very love they long for. From chasing chemistry that feels familiar, to abandoning themselves to keep the peace, to trying to control outcomes or protecting themselves by emotionally checking out - these patterns aren't flaws. They're protective strategies that once kept us safe but now keep us disconnected from the love we're truly capable of experiencing.
This conversation is an invitation to stop making yourself wrong and start becoming deeply curious about what has really been leading your relationships.
Because when your patterns are driving, love will always feel harder than it needs to.
If you're ready to create a relationship that feels peaceful, secure, expansive and deeply connected, the work isn't about becoming someone different. It's about becoming conscious enough to choose differently.
In this episode you'll discover:
- Why self-sabotage is usually unconscious, not intentional.
- The hidden behaviours that quietly push love away.
- The key to being magnetic to men
- How your protective patterns were created - and why they no longer serve you.
- The difference between reacting from fear and responding from your highest self.
- What it actually takes to create healthy, lasting love.
The relationship you've been longing for isn't created by finding the perfect partner.
It's created by becoming the woman who no longer lets her unconscious patterns write her love story.
If this episode resonates, Kate's Expanded Love Masterclass will help you identify the unconscious archetypes that sabotage relationships and teach you how to replace them with new ways of loving that create real intimacy, safety, and connection.
The life - and love you desire begins the moment you stop handing your power over to old patterns and start choosing from the woman you're becoming.
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Women have been in community gathering since the
Kate Harlow:beginning of time, right. Men are hunters and gatherers,
Kate Harlow:they're off single focus, doing their thing, and women are
Kate Harlow:gathering, and they're singing, and they're dancing, and they're
Kate Harlow:raising children, and they're cooking, and they're telling
Kate Harlow:stories. Women need women. Okay, so if you don't have a rich,
Kate Harlow:deep, meaningful sisterhood in your life, it's time to put some
Kate Harlow:energy and attention there, and on your own heart, because if
Kate Harlow:you don't have that, and then you are dating, and your
Kate Harlow:saboteur, your friendships are just saboteur relationships,
Kate Harlow:where you bond over gossip and drama and victim mentality, and
Kate Harlow:complaining, and blaming, like those are your friendships,
Kate Harlow:those are saboteur relationships, but like we, if
Kate Harlow:that's your life, and you're already empty in that regard,
Kate Harlow:you are going to be extractive in your relationship with a man,
Kate Harlow:you are going to have unrealistic expectations of what
Kate Harlow:he's going to bring into your life, and there is that feeling
Kate Harlow:of nothing's ever enough. Hello, my loves. Welcome back to the
Kate Harlow:New Truth Podcast. Kate Harlow here. My last eight hours, or
Kate Harlow:six hours, or something in Kenya, so I'm just basking in
Kate Harlow:this beautiful day there. I talked about butterflies last
Kate Harlow:week. These turquoise butterflies are insane, and I
Kate Harlow:was leaving my yoga class at a private, amazing yoga class with
Kate Harlow:my favorite yoga teacher this morning, and as I was walking up
Kate Harlow:her driveway to get my Uber, her dirt red earth driveway with
Kate Harlow:magical like jungle trees all over, it's like it feels like
Kate Harlow:you're in the middle of nowhere, walking down this driveway, and
Kate Harlow:there are hundreds of butterflies, like the turquoise
Kate Harlow:ones, all around me, these bright yellow ones, these white
Kate Harlow:ones. And I hope you come to Kenya one day, if you haven't
Kate Harlow:already. It is just.. I mean, this world is such a beautiful
Kate Harlow:place, isn't it wild to think, like, how beautiful this planet
Kate Harlow:is, and yet how much time most people spend missing it, like
Kate Harlow:they miss the magic, they miss the beauty, they miss the
Kate Harlow:exquisiteness, and I think nature is often reminding us and
Kate Harlow:inviting us back into our hearts, back into the present
Kate Harlow:moment, back into, you know, the sunset that stops you in your
Kate Harlow:tracks and takes your breath away. That is nature's
Kate Harlow:constantly doing that, like, come back, come back to this
Kate Harlow:present moment. We're the only creatures on planet Earth that
Kate Harlow:have an ego saboteur mind that keeps us so far away from the
Kate Harlow:truth of who we are, and that has us missing all of the most
Kate Harlow:beautiful moments that that are all around, and yeah, so
Kate Harlow:anyways, just wanted to start there. I'm catching a flight to
Kate Harlow:Paris this evening. I'll be sleeping on a plane tonight, and
Kate Harlow:then I head to Paris for the weekend with my dear friend
Kate Harlow:Laura, going to meet her for the weekend. So excited to spend the
Kate Harlow:weekend with her and be in Paris, and then I am going to
Kate Harlow:California on Monday, and will be with my bestie, Mariana, who
Kate Harlow:you have, if you've been listening to the new truth for a
Kate Harlow:while, you know her, that I'm going to stay with my other
Kate Harlow:bestie Leah, who lives in Malibu, and then I'm going to be
Kate Harlow:doing an expansion heart event with my heroine, some of my
Kate Harlow:heroines from the community in Ojai, California, and then I'll
Kate Harlow:head back to Vancouver. I maybe gave you this itinerary already,
Kate Harlow:so it's not new information, but, but I'm about to head off
Kate Harlow:on my journey, and thought I would record one little episode
Kate Harlow:before heading out, and I decided to call it how to stop
Kate Harlow:sabotaging your love life, and you know, especially post
Kate Harlow:masterclass. The masterclass was so incredible this time. It was
Kate Harlow:a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, which is the new format. Used to
Kate Harlow:be five days, now it's three, and it was two hours each
Kate Harlow:morning. There were so many new women on there, it was
Kate Harlow:incredible, and it like I was supposed to do it the weekend
Kate Harlow:before, so here's another divine orchestration story.
Kate Harlow:The masterclass was supposed to happen on the, I don't know, the
Kate Harlow:20-first of June, and then I got a kidney infection, as I shared
Kate Harlow:on an episode last week or the week before, and I was so sick,
Kate Harlow:and it got moved to last weekend, and when it, before it
Kate Harlow:got moved, there was like maybe seven people registered at the
Kate Harlow:most, and last weekend we had like 45 or 50 women registered
Kate Harlow:for the masterclass, so it was amazing. It was so powerful. I
Kate Harlow:love this new format. I'll probably do it once a year in
Kate Harlow:this new format, but really like the number one key to stop
Kate Harlow:sabotaging your love life. It's not you sabotaging your love
Kate Harlow:life, it's your conditioned self, right? Your saboteur is
Kate Harlow:rooted in fear, and she's a survival pattern that has been
Kate Harlow:there since you were a child, just waiting to protect you. But
Kate Harlow:as an adult, she's she's actually robbing you from
Kate Harlow:experiencing the life that you're meant to experience.
Kate Harlow:She's robbing. You from truly living because she is always
Kate Harlow:guarding you and trying to protect your heart for from
Kate Harlow:future pain, and yet the truth is, when you are rooted in
Kate Harlow:yourself and you know how to tend to your heart and tend to
Kate Harlow:those younger parts that are there when you feel pain, you
Kate Harlow:can handle your pain, so therefore you need no
Kate Harlow:protection, and that is the truth. Is your heart and your
Kate Harlow:truth doesn't ever need guards, never. No matter what, your
Kate Harlow:heart and your truth don't ever need protection. And the reality
Kate Harlow:is, these protective strategies that kept you safe as a child
Kate Harlow:actually aren't keeping you safe as an adult, they're keeping you
Kate Harlow:in self-abuse cycles, they're keeping you blaming, they're
Kate Harlow:keeping you a victim, they're keeping you stuck in these
Kate Harlow:mentalities that are actually stopping you from truly living
Kate Harlow:and stopping you from being empowered and stopping you from
Kate Harlow:being living fully from your heart and experiencing life in
Kate Harlow:the, in its most beautiful form, like the butterflies, so you
Kate Harlow:know that's the first thing I'll say, as always, is like get
Kate Harlow:intimate with your saboteur, get intimate with the part of you
Kate Harlow:that, that actually thinks that you're not safe, because there's
Kate Harlow:a dysregulated nervous system, and a dysregulated little girl
Kate Harlow:underneath the saboteur that, that is constantly looking for
Kate Harlow:fear, creating fear, looking for evidence to prove that you're
Kate Harlow:not worthy, you're not lovable, you're not good enough, and
Kate Harlow:she's going to constantly create situations that will reinforce
Kate Harlow:that, so that her job is still relevant, basically, basically,
Kate Harlow:she's still trying to hold on to her job, so she, she's like
Kate Harlow:there to keep you believing that you suck and that you're not
Kate Harlow:lovable and that you're not good enough, because she wants to
Kate Harlow:keep her job right, and the reality is your saboteur is
Kate Harlow:always going to be there, but she needs to move positions
Kate Harlow:because that job is your protector, is actually she is no
Kate Harlow:longer doing a good job. When she was your protector as a
Kate Harlow:child, she was amazing, because we, you absolutely needed her
Kate Harlow:when you didn't have choice, but now you have choice. So, get to
Kate Harlow:know your saboteur. I have an expanded love, or sab, I don't
Kate Harlow:know what it's called. It's on my on my Instagram, it's on my
Kate Harlow:website, but basically it's the saboteur archetypes in a mini
Kate Harlow:course, I think it's called Discover Your Saboteur. So, you
Kate Harlow:could do that if you want to understand your saboteur more
Kate Harlow:deeply. I'm not going to go into the saboteur archetypes today,
Kate Harlow:but basically it's not you that's sabotaging your love
Kate Harlow:life, it's your patterns, right? And as long as your patterns are
Kate Harlow:leading, which most people's are in love and love relationships,
Kate Harlow:most people's saboteurs are leading, and yet you get to
Kate Harlow:choose something different. So, today I'm going to talk about
Kate Harlow:heterosexual relationships. Fill in the blank, and you know you
Kate Harlow:can. If you're in a relationship with women, that's fine, of
Kate Harlow:course, I support that.
Kate Harlow:But today I'm going to talk about men specifically, because
Kate Harlow:men and women are from different planets, and yet we're still
Kate Harlow:treating each other like we're from the same planet and I think
Kate Harlow:that's one of the number one ways and I've been working with
Kate Harlow:one of my favorite heroines about this in her relationship
Kate Harlow:and tethering from this dynamic of constantly looking through
Kate Harlow:the lens of what he's not doing and you know this is what all
Kate Harlow:women saboteurs do in relationship. The number one
Kate Harlow:complaint of men is, nothing I ever do is enough. I can't make
Kate Harlow:her happy. And men saboteurs believe their job is to make a
Kate Harlow:woman happy. And I believe the reason that men think this,
Kate Harlow:because it's very consistent. All the men I've ever supported,
Kate Harlow:or like, got intimate with, in terms of their, not my own
Kate Harlow:intimacy, I mean, like, emotionally intimate with, to
Kate Harlow:understand what their struggles are in relationship. It's always
Kate Harlow:this feeling of nothing I ever do is enough. And men like to
Kate Harlow:win, men want to feel like they're winning, and when they
Kate Harlow:feel like they're winning, they'll keep playing the game,
Kate Harlow:they'll keep giving, they'll keep, you know, showering her
Kate Harlow:with love when they feel like they're winning, but most men
Kate Harlow:feel like they're losing, because on some subconscious or
Kate Harlow:conscious level they believe it's their job to make a woman
Kate Harlow:happy. Now, of course, that's not their job, however, because
Kate Harlow:men are so different from women in relationships, it's they are
Kate Harlow:very simple, right? They're very simple, they're singular
Kate Harlow:focused. We're dreaming about the relationship all day long
Kate Harlow:and wondering why he hasn't texted. Meanwhile, he's at work
Kate Harlow:and he's not thinking about you because he's working like
Kate Harlow:they're single focused. Not to say you don't pop into his mind
Kate Harlow:from time to time, but how men are in relationship and how
Kate Harlow:women are is so different. So, when we can learn to actually
Kate Harlow:appreciate our differences, right? The reason we're
Kate Harlow:attracted to men in the first place, if you're attracted to
Kate Harlow:men, again, this episode's going to be heavily heterosexual,
Kate Harlow:because that it's really about the differences between men and
Kate Harlow:women. If you are deeply attracted. Men, and that's who
Kate Harlow:you're choosing to partner with. Stop trying to make a man be a
Kate Harlow:woman, right? Most women are looking, oh, he's my confidant
Kate Harlow:and my best friend and the love of my life and the one and my
Kate Harlow:spiritual guru and my this and the conscious king and la la la.
Kate Harlow:It's like we're looking for them to be a one stop shop that's a
Kate Harlow:saboteur, that's the fantasy addict, and that's programmed.
Kate Harlow:It's programmed. You've been programmed to believe your man's
Kate Harlow:gonna be a one stop shop, and he's gonna give you everything
Kate Harlow:that you need, and you never need to look elsewhere again.
Kate Harlow:When you get the right one, you never need to look elsewhere
Kate Harlow:again, because he's a one stop shop. That is bullshit. Okay,
Kate Harlow:that's bullshit. First of all, that is so unfair, right? Can
Kate Harlow:you imagine, like, the flip side of that, the man being like,
Kate Harlow:'You're my everything, you're gonna make me feel confident
Kate Harlow:about myself, you're gonna make me love myself, you're gonna
Kate Harlow:make me my life get better, you're gonna provide, you're
Kate Harlow:gonna make money and pay for everything, you're also gonna
Kate Harlow:love the shit out of me every day. Like, how much pressure is
Kate Harlow:that on one person, for one? But for two, men cannot give women
Kate Harlow:what they need. Women are starving for deep intimacy, and
Kate Harlow:the place we actually need to start looking is with women, and
Kate Harlow:I'm not talking about converting into a lesbian, like that's
Kate Harlow:obviously a possibility, but, but inside of my community, of
Kate Harlow:all the women who I work with, the heroines, we call them in
Kate Harlow:the expanded love community. I mean, they're this, the level of
Kate Harlow:connection and intimacy they have with each other is like
Kate Harlow:beyond.
Kate Harlow:And there, there's this feeling I keep hearing again and again,
Kate Harlow:like, wow, I was starving for intimacy before, and I kept
Kate Harlow:looking to my partner to get it, and I kept trying to get it from
Kate Harlow:him, get it from him, and it was like I get these little like
Kate Harlow:bits of it, but it was never enough, and I was chasing more,
Kate Harlow:chasing more, chasing more, and meanwhile he's going crazy
Kate Harlow:because he feels like he's losing, he's trying really hard,
Kate Harlow:he's trying to give her all the things that she's wanting, and
Kate Harlow:he can't give them to her, you know, and then you know, you
Kate Harlow:lots of teachings out there like get your needs met in your
Kate Harlow:relationship, and tell them what you need, and it's like, no,
Kate Harlow:he's not responsible for your needs, you are. So women have a
Kate Harlow:deep need for emotional intimacy, deep need for
Kate Harlow:emotional intimacy and connection. Stop trying to get
Kate Harlow:that from a man. Now, I'm not saying you cannot get that from
Kate Harlow:a man, obviously. Take or leave anything I say. I'm speaking
Kate Harlow:very directly. I'm not saying you cannot have emotional
Kate Harlow:intimacy with a man. I have had, I've experienced, and you know,
Kate Harlow:have some men in my life right now. I have extraordinary
Kate Harlow:emotional intimacy with. It's incredible. I mean, especially
Kate Harlow:my gay, my gay besties - they're incredibly emotionally intimate.
Kate Harlow:But even straight men, I have deep emotional intimacy, but
Kate Harlow:it's not the same as the intimacy I have with women,
Kate Harlow:because there's an understanding of each other, and there's an
Kate Harlow:understanding of what we're up against, and where we come from,
Kate Harlow:and all the layers that we're untethering from to become
Kate Harlow:aligned within ourselves, so the depth of intimacy you can
Kate Harlow:experience in relationships with women will far surpass what
Kate Harlow:you'll experience with men. Now, it's not to say you're not going
Kate Harlow:to have deep intimacy with men, of course you are. It's going to
Kate Harlow:be different, but can you start filling your cup through
Kate Harlow:community? Join my community, that's always available. Send me
Kate Harlow:a message if you want to know how we can chat about it. Join
Kate Harlow:my community, join a yoga community, join sound bath
Kate Harlow:community. Start to follow your heart and soul. Join a choir,
Kate Harlow:join, go places where women are rooted in themselves, where
Kate Harlow:women are sovereign, where women are taking risks and doing
Kate Harlow:things differently. I think of, like, the women I've met in
Kate Harlow:Kenya. I have a friend who's moving here. I'm so excited. A
Kate Harlow:new friend we met at Olapangi Farm. She's from Spain, and she
Kate Harlow:just texted me a few weeks ago and told me she's moving to
Kate Harlow:Nairobi just to test it out. She loves it here too. And I just
Kate Harlow:think, like, when I met her, we were just so simpatico, and
Kate Harlow:she's making, she's making a huge impact in the world. She
Kate Harlow:has this incredible organization with a woman from Ghana, I
Kate Harlow:believe, and they have a - it's a nonprofit in Kenya, getting
Kate Harlow:educating women around their menstrual cycles and getting
Kate Harlow:them reusable menstrual products in the villages, because they
Kate Harlow:don't - they can't afford them in the villages in Kenya, and so
Kate Harlow:they end up missing so much of school because of their periods,
Kate Harlow:and so she and her friend have created this incredible
Kate Harlow:nonprofit company, and she's been working in Africa, her, you
Kate Harlow:know, for many, many years, and she's such a beautiful soul, and
Kate Harlow:I'm just thinking that's it, like I have an extraordinary
Kate Harlow:life, therefore I attract extraordinary people, right? I
Kate Harlow:didn't create, I didn't, you know, just I wasn't just born
Kate Harlow:with an extraordinary life, right? I was born in North
Kate Harlow:Vancouver, and I was born with all these limitations and fear
Kate Harlow:and anxiety and all that. Well, not born with it, I learned it,
Kate Harlow:but I, in a really small town mentality, like all my friends I
Kate Harlow:grew up with, got married and had kids at a very young age,
Kate Harlow:it's like a small.
Kate Harlow:Town, and I broke free, you know, like that Kelly Clarkson
Kate Harlow:song, I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly, and I
Kate Harlow:kept following my heart, like from such a young age, 22 was
Kate Harlow:like first time I moved to Australia, and I followed my
Kate Harlow:heart here, and I followed my heart there, and I kept taking
Kate Harlow:courageous steps, and I changed my name, and I did, you know, I
Kate Harlow:kept doing things that were unconventional, even though
Kate Harlow:there was a part of me, saboteur, really loud and really
Kate Harlow:scared to do so, but the more I followed my heart, the more life
Kate Harlow:led me to other people who follow their hearts too. And I
Kate Harlow:think of the community I am surrounded by now, and the
Kate Harlow:amazing women that I keep attracting and keep calling in,
Kate Harlow:and the the hearts that are open, and the courage they have
Kate Harlow:and and the unconventional ness of their lives and even if they
Kate Harlow:have kids it like looks different you know it's it's
Kate Harlow:it's so amazing because there's not to say there's anything
Kate Harlow:wrong with the conventional life but it's like who are you inside
Kate Harlow:of your conventional life what part of you is leading right so
Kate Harlow:the more you follow your heart as I talk about on every episode
Kate Harlow:instead of your conditioned mind, your fear-based
Kate Harlow:conditioned mind, and the more you go against the grain, but
Kate Harlow:not to rebel against anything, but to actually follow your
Kate Harlow:truth and your heart, the more you attract naturally women who
Kate Harlow:are aligned with you. Right, you'll attract men too, but
Kate Harlow:women need women. Women have been in community gathering
Kate Harlow:since the beginning of time, right? Men are hunters and
Kate Harlow:gatherers, they're off single focus, doing their thing, and
Kate Harlow:women are gathering, and they're singing, and they're dancing,
Kate Harlow:and they're raising children, and they're cooking, and they're
Kate Harlow:telling stories. Women need women. Okay, so if you don't
Kate Harlow:have a rich, deep, meaningful sisterhood in your life, it's
Kate Harlow:time to put some energy and attention there, and on your own
Kate Harlow:heart, because if you don't have that, and then you are dating,
Kate Harlow:and your saboteur, your friendships are just saboteur
Kate Harlow:relationships, where you bond over gossip and drama and victim
Kate Harlow:mentality, and complaining, and blaming, like those are your
Kate Harlow:friendships, those are saboteur relationships, and if you want
Kate Harlow:to know more about that, we can talk. The masterclass videos are
Kate Harlow:available for another week, so if you want to, you can still
Kate Harlow:join. Just reach out to me, and I can get you access. But we, if
Kate Harlow:that's your life, and you're already empty in that regard,
Kate Harlow:you are going to be extractive in your relationship with a man.
Kate Harlow:You are going to have unrealistic expectations of what
Kate Harlow:he's going to bring into your life, and there is that feeling
Kate Harlow:of nothing's ever enough, right. And then it's, oh, is he right
Kate Harlow:for me? Should I stay or should I go? This guy's not right for
Kate Harlow:me, he's not enough for me, this isn't enough for me. I need
Kate Harlow:more. I need a man who's more like this, I need a man who's
Kate Harlow:more like that. So, let's just say your relationships align,
Kate Harlow:but if you're in your head trying to figure it out, and
Kate Harlow:there's a part of you that's blaming him, have you taken full
Kate Harlow:responsibility for your world and the energy that you bring
Kate Harlow:into this relationship? So, like I was saying earlier, like when,
Kate Harlow:if you are already in a relationship, or even you're on
Kate Harlow:a first date with someone, can you get into your heart, connect
Kate Harlow:with your body, notice your breath, become more present.
Kate Harlow:Meditating will help you with this, but actually feel
Kate Harlow:appreciation for this moment and this experience. Okay, when men
Kate Harlow:feel appreciated, they show up more. But what women tend to do
Kate Harlow:is be like, hey, you didn't do this thing, and you didn't do
Kate Harlow:that thing, and you forgot to call me, and why don't.. why,
Kate Harlow:why don't you tell me how you feel, and what's going on, and
Kate Harlow:where are you addicted?
Kate Harlow:And we're out there, not enough, not enough, not enough, not
Kate Harlow:enough, looking for him, blaming him, looking for why you don't
Kate Harlow:feel how you did in the beginning, and we're looking for
Kate Harlow:all the answers in all the wrong places, rather than filling
Kate Harlow:yourself up, taking responsibility, expanding your
Kate Harlow:heart, expanding your life expanding your community and
Kate Harlow:your sisterhood, so you're satiated. And then you show up
Kate Harlow:in the date, like this was me when I was dating in Greece, I
Kate Harlow:was so satiated, my heart was so full, I needed nothing. And men
Kate Harlow:loved me, they loved meeting me because I needed nothing. They
Kate Harlow:were like, oh my god, you're so different than all the women I
Kate Harlow:go on dates with, because, like, yeah, I'm just here, I'm
Kate Harlow:present. I'm not looking for my husband, I'm not looking for a
Kate Harlow:next date or a text message. I'm just here. I didn't tell them
Kate Harlow:this, but that's why I felt different, because I was
Kate Harlow:satiated. My heart was full. I was not trying to extract
Kate Harlow:something from them, right? And so, when you're, when your heart
Kate Harlow:is full and you're satiated. That's the place to live from,
Kate Harlow:inside of your relationship. And if you are not that, and your
Kate Harlow:pain is there, look in the mirror. Stop blaming your
Kate Harlow:partner. Look in the mirror. What is my part? Where am I
Kate Harlow:blaming him for my pain? He is not responsible for your pain.
Kate Harlow:You are so own your side of the street. What is my pattern?
Kate Harlow:Okay, he's selfish, narcissist. That's a favorite word in the
Kate Harlow:modern dating world. Okay, well, then, how did I attract
Kate Harlow:self-narcissist? Well, I must be a fantasy addict, I must be a
Kate Harlow:shapeshifter, I must be a self-sacrificer, because that's
Kate Harlow:the only way I would be a match to someone like that, right? So
Kate Harlow:owning your side of the street and then learning how to
Kate Harlow:actually be an appreciation. Appreciation for what you do
Kate Harlow:have, don't just do this in your relationship, do this in your
Kate Harlow:life, right? The more you can actually feel the energy of
Kate Harlow:appreciation and feel the energy, like let's say you're in
Kate Harlow:a relationship and your partner at, you know, plans a date and
Kate Harlow:he doesn't normally do that, and even if the date sucks, and it's
Kate Harlow:not something you want to do, like let's say he's taking you
Kate Harlow:to a football game, and you don't like sports, to actually
Kate Harlow:be able to be present and feel into the appreciation for that,
Kate Harlow:and for the things he is doing, instead of what he's not doing.
Kate Harlow:Right, women always look to what's what he's not doing. In
Kate Harlow:the beginning, we pedestal them. In the beginning, we pedestal
Kate Harlow:them, we're like, oh my god, I've never met someone who makes
Kate Harlow:me feel more beautiful, more this, or that. Wow, he's the
Kate Harlow:blah blah blah blah blah. And then later, when we're feeling
Kate Harlow:bad, because we gave him credit for all of our pleasure, we're
Kate Harlow:now looking to blame him for our pain. Oh, he doesn't make me
Kate Harlow:feel like this anymore. He never shows up anymore. The honeymoon
Kate Harlow:is over, obviously. He now, he doesn't give a shit. Okay. Well,
Kate Harlow:take a look. When was the last time you appreciated the little
Kate Harlow:things? When was last time you gave him the energy of
Kate Harlow:appreciation and love? Like, just like, wow, it means so much
Kate Harlow:to me. Men love this language. It means so much to me when you
Kate Harlow:pick me up from the airport or from work. Thank you so much for
Kate Harlow:doing that. I love it. I feel so, so moved right now. I feel
Kate Harlow:so touched that you went out of your way and picked me up. I
Kate Harlow:love you. Thank you. Right, like they, they are wired to win,
Kate Harlow:right? They're wired to win, and often with women, they feel like
Kate Harlow:they're losing. Why? Because we're, they're so different from
Kate Harlow:us. We are aliens to them. Women are far more complex, and it's
Kate Harlow:not you that's complex, it's your saboteur, because the
Kate Harlow:saboteur is set up to always look for, like, okay, you're not
Kate Harlow:enough, you're not lovable and worthy. So I'm gonna, like, I'm
Kate Harlow:gonna point the finger out there, because I don't feel
Kate Harlow:enough in here, and I'm not taking responsibility for my
Kate Harlow:enoughness, for my worth, for my lovability.
Kate Harlow:I'm looking to men to fill it, so they're never going to be
Kate Harlow:able to. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, right? It's like
Kate Harlow:thinking, oh, if I lose 10 pounds, I'll feel better. No,
Kate Harlow:you won't. You'll lose 10 pounds, then you'll become
Kate Harlow:obsessed with losing 10 more, or then you'll become obsessed with
Kate Harlow:the fear of gaining weight. Your fantasy addict, part of your
Kate Harlow:saboteur, will never be happy. Nothing will ever be enough, and
Kate Harlow:she'll always be like, you just need the ring, you need the
Kate Harlow:wedding, you need the kids, you need the picket fence. Oh, then
Kate Harlow:you'll feel good, then you'll feel safe in your relationship
Kate Harlow:with that narcissist, then you'll feel happy, then you'll
Kate Harlow:feel successful in life. But that is your saboteur, and the
Kate Harlow:wounded little girl are a bottomless pit. She'll never
Kate Harlow:arrive, she'll never feel enough. It's a self-fulfilling
Kate Harlow:prophecy. So, if I switch gears and start living from my heart
Kate Harlow:and soul, and I take responsibility for my life and
Kate Harlow:my community and my sisterhood and my intimacy, that I am, my
Kate Harlow:life is filled with emotional intimacy. If I'm deeply desiring
Kate Harlow:emotional intimacy in a relationship, I better have it
Kate Harlow:everywhere, because if I don't, I'm going to meet a man, I'm
Kate Harlow:going to desperately want him to fill that, and I'm going to try
Kate Harlow:and get him to be emotionally intimate. I'm going to try and
Kate Harlow:change him, I'm going to try and blame him, I'm going to think
Kate Harlow:there's some other guy out there. But in my love, until you
Kate Harlow:are everything you're expecting a man to be, you will not have
Kate Harlow:the thing that you desire. You won't, you'll never get it. You
Kate Harlow:might get it for five minutes or for five days, but you'll net,
Kate Harlow:not five days, I don't think so. But you'll never attract it,
Kate Harlow:because you're not vibrating in that frequency. And, like I
Kate Harlow:said, there are men who have an extraordinary emotional
Kate Harlow:intelligence. I've met many of them, and they're beautiful, but
Kate Harlow:they're still not women. They're still different from women. We
Kate Harlow:are netbook, men are from Mars, women are from Venus. We are
Kate Harlow:absolutely from different planets, and I think this is one
Kate Harlow:of the biggest, um, miss, miss, um, miss nomads, that one of the
Kate Harlow:biggest blind spots that people have in relationship is they,
Kate Harlow:their men want women to be men, and women want men to be women,
Kate Harlow:and, and then we, you know, I think of, like, men are like,
Kate Harlow:"Oh, man, women are fucking crazy. It's not women that are
Kate Harlow:crazy, it's our saboteurs, but our saboteurs are crazy, and
Kate Harlow:they're constantly like them. It's a setup, the saboteur will
Kate Harlow:set a man up so he cannot win, and then he'll feel bad, and
Kate Harlow:he'll change, and he'll get small, or he'll get distant, or
Kate Harlow:he'll get disassociated, and so, like, the number one value that
Kate Harlow:men require in relationship is freedom, the masculine, and the
Kate Harlow:number one value women require in relationship is safety, and
Kate Harlow:you see how they're actually quite the opposite, like women
Kate Harlow:are trying to get safety from men, which, as you know from the
Kate Harlow:New Truth podcast, your safety is not outside of you, but your
Kate Harlow:saboteur will make you think it is. And men are trying to get
Kate Harlow:freedom from women, and if a woman doesn't feel safe, a man
Kate Harlow:will not feel free, because she's trying to get physical
Kate Harlow:safety, emotional safety, financial safety, all the all
Kate Harlow:these different types of safety. From him, and the more she's
Kate Harlow:clinging and needy, and and controlling, and grasping, and
Kate Harlow:attached to getting the feeling of safety and subconscious, he
Kate Harlow:will not feel free, and then he'll shut down, he'll
Kate Harlow:disassociate, he will go somewhere else, grass is
Kate Harlow:greener. He will, he will fight you. He will try and control
Kate Harlow:you, because he doesn't feel free. So, in order to make a man
Kate Harlow:feel safe, two things need to be in place: trust. So, don't be
Kate Harlow:with someone you don't trust, trusting he's got it, trusting
Kate Harlow:if he says he's planning a date, he will do it, whether you like
Kate Harlow:it or not, like just trusting, you know, that trusting his
Kate Harlow:process, trusting that he loves you. If you're in a
Kate Harlow:relationship, you know, if your gut is screaming no, then that's
Kate Harlow:different.
Kate Harlow:But, but if you're in alignment with yourself, you won't choose
Kate Harlow:things that are out of alignment with your body and your heart
Kate Harlow:and your soul. You won't. So get into alignment, trust and
Kate Harlow:appreciation, the more you can pour appreciation to him, the
Kate Harlow:more he'll feel like he's winning, and you're happy, and
Kate Harlow:he feels relaxed. Then, because men, men feel responsible for
Kate Harlow:women's happiness, because they feel they can't relax if a
Kate Harlow:woman's constantly demanding on them and trying to get things
Kate Harlow:from him, or shutting down from him, or trying to control him,
Kate Harlow:they can't relax, right? Men suck at relationships, women do
Kate Harlow:too. I mean, no one, you know, nobody was taught how to do
Kate Harlow:relationship, and we've all been pulled away from the source of
Kate Harlow:who we are. So, most people suck at relationships, but men are
Kate Harlow:not relational by nature, their purpose by nature, their purpose
Kate Harlow:driven by nature, they're action oriented by nature. The feminine
Kate Harlow:heart energy, emotional, intuitive, embodied. The
Kate Harlow:feminine woman is the one who leads the relationship, but not
Kate Harlow:by trying to get the man to give her something he cannot give
Kate Harlow:her. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. The feminine woman
Kate Harlow:leads the relationship by softening and receiving, and
Kate Harlow:being in her heart, and appreciating, and trusting, and
Kate Harlow:and expressing from overflow, not from from need, not from
Kate Harlow:trying to get something by, by showing up, filled up, turned
Kate Harlow:on, lit up. So, he, this man needs to do nothing. That's
Kate Harlow:perfect, because then his saboteur patterns aren't going
Kate Harlow:to kick in if he feels like he needs to do things to make you
Kate Harlow:feel good. Now you're in a pattern relationship. Now you're
Kate Harlow:in a wound mate relationship. The only way you have the
Kate Harlow:aligned heroine sovereign relationship is when you are
Kate Harlow:full and he doesn't need to do anything, and he gets to enjoy
Kate Harlow:your being and you get to enjoy his and his guidance and his
Kate Harlow:intelligence and his whatever it is you're enjoying his humor
Kate Harlow:right then you get to relax into the connection and that's where
Kate Harlow:the true intimacy exists between a man and a woman but most women
Kate Harlow:are so busy trying to control love because a young part of
Kate Harlow:them underneath feels not worthy of it, and so that part is
Kate Harlow:sabotaging you from ever receiving it, and she's gonna be
Kate Harlow:like, "No, it'll be great, Kate. Once I get the perfect man
Kate Harlow:that's like literally so evolved, and this, that, and the
Kate Harlow:other, then I won't have to do anything, and I say, "Bullshit,
Kate Harlow:there is no such thing, and even if you had the most aligned man
Kate Harlow:on planet earth, that's still not going to be enough for your
Kate Harlow:saboteur and the little girl. You have to learn to show up for
Kate Harlow:and with yourself, and this will change who you attract, how you
Kate Harlow:attract, and how you navigate relationships. So let the man be
Kate Harlow:a man, and deeply appreciate what he does do. Deeply
Kate Harlow:appreciate what you do receive from him. And the rest of the
Kate Harlow:time, fill yourself up with everything else. Go take dance
Kate Harlow:classes, go, like, you know, join an improv class where you
Kate Harlow:can laugh your head off, go connect with women in
Kate Harlow:unconventional ways. Join a women's circle, start a book
Kate Harlow:club, you know, start to bond with women in a deeper way, so
Kate Harlow:your heart feels met, so you feel satiated, and you take that
Kate Harlow:pressure off the relationship. There's so much pressure on a
Kate Harlow:relationship, and yet nobody's investing in the relationship.
Kate Harlow:Nobody's tending to the relationship. Nobody's seeking
Kate Harlow:to understand our differences in how we can make this thing
Kate Harlow:thrive. Everyone's just like, "Hey, got my relationship, check
Kate Harlow:that box, now it's good for life. That is bullshit. It is
Kate Harlow:not set for life. A relationship is a living, breathing thing.
Kate Harlow:You have to cultivate it. You have to take responsibility for
Kate Harlow:your side of the street and show up from a different place inside
Kate Harlow:of yourself. So take your focus off of him, whether you're at
Kate Harlow:the verge of a breakup or the beginning of a relationship or
Kate Harlow:anything in between. Take your focus off of him. Stop focusing,
Kate Harlow:and even if you're single and you're trying to attract the
Kate Harlow:love of your life. Quote, unquote, stop it. You are the
Kate Harlow:love of your life. Burn the fucking checklist, as I say
Kate Harlow:every week.
Kate Harlow:Get rid of the ideal man that you want in the, in the, in the
Kate Harlow:what, what you're looking for. Get your attention off of the
Kate Harlow:external, and all you need to do is to pay attention to your own
Kate Harlow:inner experience and start to devote yourself to that. How do
Kate Harlow:I feel internally, and how do I want to feel, whether it's in a
Kate Harlow:relationship or, um, or you know, just in your life, and
Kate Harlow:your, and even your job, like, how do I want to feel, and start
Kate Harlow:to cultivate those feelings in your life, start to cultivate
Kate Harlow:the pleasure, start to cultivate the love, the intimacy, the joy,
Kate Harlow:like, if that's how you want to feel, cultivate it, and listen
Kate Harlow:to those sparks of your soul, and follow them, and, and let
Kate Harlow:yourself expand into these corners of yourself. It's, it's
Kate Harlow:you you're chasing, it's you you're craving, it's your own
Kate Harlow:soul that you're craving, and the saboteurs always going to be
Kate Harlow:looking for it in all the wrong places, so stop giving him
Kate Harlow:credit for your pain. Stop giving him credit for your
Kate Harlow:pleasure. Take full responsibility for all of it.
Kate Harlow:Learn to tend to those younger parts of you when you're in
Kate Harlow:pain, and look in the mirror. Okay, if you are a selfless
Kate Harlow:woman, self less, less of a self, and he is a selfish man,
Kate Harlow:and he's triggering the shit out of you because he's so selfish,
Kate Harlow:take it, take a page out of his book, go practice being selfish,
Kate Harlow:go be in front of the mirror, the most selfish person ever,
Kate Harlow:because that's your medicine, you have to learn how to be the
Kate Harlow:opposite pattern to find who you truly are in the middle, which
Kate Harlow:is self-centered, which is rooted in yourself, which is
Kate Harlow:full responsibility for you, okay, flip the knot enough. Stop
Kate Harlow:looking for what he can do more of, even if you're the verge of
Kate Harlow:a break of a breakup. Stop looking for what he's doing
Kate Harlow:wrong and start to look at what he is doing and what you do
Kate Harlow:appreciate about this experience, even if it's the
Kate Harlow:end, right? Like, how can you be in the energy of appreciation?
Kate Harlow:This will go so far, life is so beautiful, and there's so much
Kate Harlow:beauty all around us, and there's gifts, and there's
Kate Harlow:lessons, and there's awareness, there's so much available to
Kate Harlow:you, but if you are in blame, and you're in separation
Kate Harlow:consciousness, me against you, right against wrong, you should,
Kate Harlow:this should be different, you're in your head, you're robbing
Kate Harlow:yourself of experiencing the gifts of all relationships,
Kate Harlow:including breakups, like there is such a gift in all aspects,
Kate Harlow:all facets of relationship, in dating, in being single, all
Kate Harlow:phases all have a tremendous gift for you. Are you receiving
Kate Harlow:the gift? Are you in the story of separation? Are you in the
Kate Harlow:story of blame? Are you in the story of wishing for this
Kate Harlow:situation to be different, or thinking there's some other man
Kate Harlow:out there who's going to rescue you, or is going to give you
Kate Harlow:everything you need. There's not. It's all inside, my love.
Kate Harlow:So be the heart you will, you will call forward a completely
Kate Harlow:different caliber of man and caliber of men in your life when
Kate Harlow:you're living from the frequency of your heart, but you're rooted
Kate Harlow:in your sovereignty, you're rooted in your sage, you're
Kate Harlow:rooted in your truth, you're rooted in your queen. You stand
Kate Harlow:with and for yourself. Your heart is open, you follow your
Kate Harlow:heart, you take responsibility for how you feel, and you show
Kate Harlow:up in all relational dynamics full and rooted. The world
Kate Harlow:around you will change drastically, so stop letting
Kate Harlow:your saboteur lead, stop letting your patterns lead, take
Kate Harlow:responsibility. This is obviously the foundation of
Kate Harlow:everything I do with women, so if you're ready to take
Kate Harlow:responsibility and you don't know how, reach out to me. Let's
Kate Harlow:have a conversation. I can guide you in so many ways, whether
Kate Harlow:it's with me or another direction, but it's time to take
Kate Harlow:responsibility, because the only thing that's sabotaging your
Kate Harlow:love life, it's not all the stories your saboteur will tell
Kate Harlow:you, like there's no good men left, all the good ones are
Kate Harlow:taken, la la la.
Kate Harlow:Oh, I'll find him one day, blah blah blah, the fantasy addict
Kate Harlow:will feed you all, I'll be happy when she'll field you all the
Kate Harlow:stories, but the sabotage is an inside job, my loves, and most
Kate Harlow:people are in relationships from their saboteur because they know
Kate Harlow:nothing different. Your heart doesn't need protection, your
Kate Harlow:truth doesn't need protection, but it needs radical, sacred,
Kate Harlow:radical self responsibility. So, time to come home. You've got
Kate Harlow:this. As always, share this episode with any woman you know
Kate Harlow:who needs to hear, have a little boost, and, and hear it, and
Kate Harlow:send me a message. Let me know how it landed, and I will see
Kate Harlow:you next week.

