How to Stop Sabotaging Your Love Life
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How to Stop Sabotaging Your Love Life

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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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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Women have been in community gathering since the

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beginning of time, right. Men are hunters and gatherers,

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they're off single focus, doing their thing, and women are

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gathering, and they're singing, and they're dancing, and they're

Kate Harlow:

raising children, and they're cooking, and they're telling

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stories. Women need women. Okay, so if you don't have a rich,

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deep, meaningful sisterhood in your life, it's time to put some

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energy and attention there, and on your own heart, because if

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you don't have that, and then you are dating, and your

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saboteur, your friendships are just saboteur relationships,

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where you bond over gossip and drama and victim mentality, and

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complaining, and blaming, like those are your friendships,

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those are saboteur relationships, but like we, if

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that's your life, and you're already empty in that regard,

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you are going to be extractive in your relationship with a man,

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you are going to have unrealistic expectations of what

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he's going to bring into your life, and there is that feeling

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of nothing's ever enough. Hello, my loves. Welcome back to the

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New Truth Podcast. Kate Harlow here. My last eight hours, or

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six hours, or something in Kenya, so I'm just basking in

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this beautiful day there. I talked about butterflies last

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week. These turquoise butterflies are insane, and I

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was leaving my yoga class at a private, amazing yoga class with

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my favorite yoga teacher this morning, and as I was walking up

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her driveway to get my Uber, her dirt red earth driveway with

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magical like jungle trees all over, it's like it feels like

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you're in the middle of nowhere, walking down this driveway, and

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there are hundreds of butterflies, like the turquoise

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ones, all around me, these bright yellow ones, these white

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ones. And I hope you come to Kenya one day, if you haven't

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already. It is just.. I mean, this world is such a beautiful

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place, isn't it wild to think, like, how beautiful this planet

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is, and yet how much time most people spend missing it, like

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they miss the magic, they miss the beauty, they miss the

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exquisiteness, and I think nature is often reminding us and

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inviting us back into our hearts, back into the present

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moment, back into, you know, the sunset that stops you in your

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tracks and takes your breath away. That is nature's

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constantly doing that, like, come back, come back to this

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present moment. We're the only creatures on planet Earth that

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have an ego saboteur mind that keeps us so far away from the

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truth of who we are, and that has us missing all of the most

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beautiful moments that that are all around, and yeah, so

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anyways, just wanted to start there. I'm catching a flight to

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Paris this evening. I'll be sleeping on a plane tonight, and

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then I head to Paris for the weekend with my dear friend

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Laura, going to meet her for the weekend. So excited to spend the

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weekend with her and be in Paris, and then I am going to

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California on Monday, and will be with my bestie, Mariana, who

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you have, if you've been listening to the new truth for a

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while, you know her, that I'm going to stay with my other

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bestie Leah, who lives in Malibu, and then I'm going to be

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doing an expansion heart event with my heroine, some of my

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heroines from the community in Ojai, California, and then I'll

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head back to Vancouver. I maybe gave you this itinerary already,

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so it's not new information, but, but I'm about to head off

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on my journey, and thought I would record one little episode

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before heading out, and I decided to call it how to stop

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sabotaging your love life, and you know, especially post

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masterclass. The masterclass was so incredible this time. It was

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a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, which is the new format. Used to

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be five days, now it's three, and it was two hours each

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morning. There were so many new women on there, it was

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incredible, and it like I was supposed to do it the weekend

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before, so here's another divine orchestration story.

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The masterclass was supposed to happen on the, I don't know, the

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20-first of June, and then I got a kidney infection, as I shared

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on an episode last week or the week before, and I was so sick,

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and it got moved to last weekend, and when it, before it

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got moved, there was like maybe seven people registered at the

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most, and last weekend we had like 45 or 50 women registered

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for the masterclass, so it was amazing. It was so powerful. I

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love this new format. I'll probably do it once a year in

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this new format, but really like the number one key to stop

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sabotaging your love life. It's not you sabotaging your love

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life, it's your conditioned self, right? Your saboteur is

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rooted in fear, and she's a survival pattern that has been

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there since you were a child, just waiting to protect you. But

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as an adult, she's she's actually robbing you from

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experiencing the life that you're meant to experience.

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She's robbing. You from truly living because she is always

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guarding you and trying to protect your heart for from

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future pain, and yet the truth is, when you are rooted in

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yourself and you know how to tend to your heart and tend to

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those younger parts that are there when you feel pain, you

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can handle your pain, so therefore you need no

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protection, and that is the truth. Is your heart and your

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truth doesn't ever need guards, never. No matter what, your

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heart and your truth don't ever need protection. And the reality

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is, these protective strategies that kept you safe as a child

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actually aren't keeping you safe as an adult, they're keeping you

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in self-abuse cycles, they're keeping you blaming, they're

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keeping you a victim, they're keeping you stuck in these

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mentalities that are actually stopping you from truly living

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and stopping you from being empowered and stopping you from

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being living fully from your heart and experiencing life in

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the, in its most beautiful form, like the butterflies, so you

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know that's the first thing I'll say, as always, is like get

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intimate with your saboteur, get intimate with the part of you

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that, that actually thinks that you're not safe, because there's

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a dysregulated nervous system, and a dysregulated little girl

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underneath the saboteur that, that is constantly looking for

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fear, creating fear, looking for evidence to prove that you're

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not worthy, you're not lovable, you're not good enough, and

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she's going to constantly create situations that will reinforce

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that, so that her job is still relevant, basically, basically,

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she's still trying to hold on to her job, so she, she's like

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there to keep you believing that you suck and that you're not

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lovable and that you're not good enough, because she wants to

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keep her job right, and the reality is your saboteur is

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always going to be there, but she needs to move positions

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because that job is your protector, is actually she is no

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longer doing a good job. When she was your protector as a

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child, she was amazing, because we, you absolutely needed her

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when you didn't have choice, but now you have choice. So, get to

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know your saboteur. I have an expanded love, or sab, I don't

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know what it's called. It's on my on my Instagram, it's on my

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website, but basically it's the saboteur archetypes in a mini

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course, I think it's called Discover Your Saboteur. So, you

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could do that if you want to understand your saboteur more

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deeply. I'm not going to go into the saboteur archetypes today,

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but basically it's not you that's sabotaging your love

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life, it's your patterns, right? And as long as your patterns are

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leading, which most people's are in love and love relationships,

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most people's saboteurs are leading, and yet you get to

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choose something different. So, today I'm going to talk about

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heterosexual relationships. Fill in the blank, and you know you

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can. If you're in a relationship with women, that's fine, of

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course, I support that.

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But today I'm going to talk about men specifically, because

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men and women are from different planets, and yet we're still

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treating each other like we're from the same planet and I think

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that's one of the number one ways and I've been working with

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one of my favorite heroines about this in her relationship

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and tethering from this dynamic of constantly looking through

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the lens of what he's not doing and you know this is what all

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women saboteurs do in relationship. The number one

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complaint of men is, nothing I ever do is enough. I can't make

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her happy. And men saboteurs believe their job is to make a

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woman happy. And I believe the reason that men think this,

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because it's very consistent. All the men I've ever supported,

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or like, got intimate with, in terms of their, not my own

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intimacy, I mean, like, emotionally intimate with, to

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understand what their struggles are in relationship. It's always

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this feeling of nothing I ever do is enough. And men like to

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win, men want to feel like they're winning, and when they

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feel like they're winning, they'll keep playing the game,

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they'll keep giving, they'll keep, you know, showering her

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with love when they feel like they're winning, but most men

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feel like they're losing, because on some subconscious or

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conscious level they believe it's their job to make a woman

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happy. Now, of course, that's not their job, however, because

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men are so different from women in relationships, it's they are

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very simple, right? They're very simple, they're singular

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focused. We're dreaming about the relationship all day long

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and wondering why he hasn't texted. Meanwhile, he's at work

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and he's not thinking about you because he's working like

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they're single focused. Not to say you don't pop into his mind

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from time to time, but how men are in relationship and how

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women are is so different. So, when we can learn to actually

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appreciate our differences, right? The reason we're

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attracted to men in the first place, if you're attracted to

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men, again, this episode's going to be heavily heterosexual,

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because that it's really about the differences between men and

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women. If you are deeply attracted. Men, and that's who

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you're choosing to partner with. Stop trying to make a man be a

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woman, right? Most women are looking, oh, he's my confidant

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and my best friend and the love of my life and the one and my

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spiritual guru and my this and the conscious king and la la la.

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It's like we're looking for them to be a one stop shop that's a

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saboteur, that's the fantasy addict, and that's programmed.

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It's programmed. You've been programmed to believe your man's

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gonna be a one stop shop, and he's gonna give you everything

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that you need, and you never need to look elsewhere again.

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When you get the right one, you never need to look elsewhere

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again, because he's a one stop shop. That is bullshit. Okay,

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that's bullshit. First of all, that is so unfair, right? Can

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you imagine, like, the flip side of that, the man being like,

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'You're my everything, you're gonna make me feel confident

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about myself, you're gonna make me love myself, you're gonna

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make me my life get better, you're gonna provide, you're

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gonna make money and pay for everything, you're also gonna

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love the shit out of me every day. Like, how much pressure is

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that on one person, for one? But for two, men cannot give women

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what they need. Women are starving for deep intimacy, and

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the place we actually need to start looking is with women, and

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I'm not talking about converting into a lesbian, like that's

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obviously a possibility, but, but inside of my community, of

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all the women who I work with, the heroines, we call them in

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the expanded love community. I mean, they're this, the level of

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connection and intimacy they have with each other is like

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beyond.

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And there, there's this feeling I keep hearing again and again,

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like, wow, I was starving for intimacy before, and I kept

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looking to my partner to get it, and I kept trying to get it from

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him, get it from him, and it was like I get these little like

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bits of it, but it was never enough, and I was chasing more,

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chasing more, chasing more, and meanwhile he's going crazy

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because he feels like he's losing, he's trying really hard,

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he's trying to give her all the things that she's wanting, and

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he can't give them to her, you know, and then you know, you

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lots of teachings out there like get your needs met in your

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relationship, and tell them what you need, and it's like, no,

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he's not responsible for your needs, you are. So women have a

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deep need for emotional intimacy, deep need for

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emotional intimacy and connection. Stop trying to get

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that from a man. Now, I'm not saying you cannot get that from

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a man, obviously. Take or leave anything I say. I'm speaking

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very directly. I'm not saying you cannot have emotional

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intimacy with a man. I have had, I've experienced, and you know,

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have some men in my life right now. I have extraordinary

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emotional intimacy with. It's incredible. I mean, especially

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my gay, my gay besties - they're incredibly emotionally intimate.

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But even straight men, I have deep emotional intimacy, but

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it's not the same as the intimacy I have with women,

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because there's an understanding of each other, and there's an

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understanding of what we're up against, and where we come from,

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and all the layers that we're untethering from to become

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aligned within ourselves, so the depth of intimacy you can

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experience in relationships with women will far surpass what

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you'll experience with men. Now, it's not to say you're not going

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to have deep intimacy with men, of course you are. It's going to

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be different, but can you start filling your cup through

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community? Join my community, that's always available. Send me

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a message if you want to know how we can chat about it. Join

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my community, join a yoga community, join sound bath

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community. Start to follow your heart and soul. Join a choir,

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join, go places where women are rooted in themselves, where

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women are sovereign, where women are taking risks and doing

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things differently. I think of, like, the women I've met in

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Kenya. I have a friend who's moving here. I'm so excited. A

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new friend we met at Olapangi Farm. She's from Spain, and she

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just texted me a few weeks ago and told me she's moving to

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Nairobi just to test it out. She loves it here too. And I just

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think, like, when I met her, we were just so simpatico, and

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she's making, she's making a huge impact in the world. She

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has this incredible organization with a woman from Ghana, I

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believe, and they have a - it's a nonprofit in Kenya, getting

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educating women around their menstrual cycles and getting

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them reusable menstrual products in the villages, because they

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don't - they can't afford them in the villages in Kenya, and so

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they end up missing so much of school because of their periods,

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and so she and her friend have created this incredible

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nonprofit company, and she's been working in Africa, her, you

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know, for many, many years, and she's such a beautiful soul, and

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I'm just thinking that's it, like I have an extraordinary

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life, therefore I attract extraordinary people, right? I

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didn't create, I didn't, you know, just I wasn't just born

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with an extraordinary life, right? I was born in North

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Vancouver, and I was born with all these limitations and fear

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and anxiety and all that. Well, not born with it, I learned it,

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but I, in a really small town mentality, like all my friends I

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grew up with, got married and had kids at a very young age,

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it's like a small.

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Town, and I broke free, you know, like that Kelly Clarkson

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song, I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly, and I

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kept following my heart, like from such a young age, 22 was

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like first time I moved to Australia, and I followed my

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heart here, and I followed my heart there, and I kept taking

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courageous steps, and I changed my name, and I did, you know, I

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kept doing things that were unconventional, even though

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there was a part of me, saboteur, really loud and really

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scared to do so, but the more I followed my heart, the more life

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led me to other people who follow their hearts too. And I

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think of the community I am surrounded by now, and the

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amazing women that I keep attracting and keep calling in,

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and the the hearts that are open, and the courage they have

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and and the unconventional ness of their lives and even if they

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have kids it like looks different you know it's it's

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it's so amazing because there's not to say there's anything

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wrong with the conventional life but it's like who are you inside

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of your conventional life what part of you is leading right so

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the more you follow your heart as I talk about on every episode

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instead of your conditioned mind, your fear-based

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conditioned mind, and the more you go against the grain, but

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not to rebel against anything, but to actually follow your

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truth and your heart, the more you attract naturally women who

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are aligned with you. Right, you'll attract men too, but

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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

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have a rich, deep, meaningful sisterhood in your life, it's

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time to put some energy and attention there, and on your own

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heart, because if you don't have that, and then you are dating,

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and your saboteur, your friendships are just saboteur

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relationships, where you bond over gossip and drama and victim

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mentality, and complaining, and blaming, like those are your

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friendships, those are saboteur relationships, and if you want

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to know more about that, we can talk. The masterclass videos are

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available for another week, so if you want to, you can still

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join. Just reach out to me, and I can get you access. But we, if

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that's your life, and you're already empty in that regard,

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you are going to be extractive in your relationship with a man.

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You are going to have unrealistic expectations of what

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he's going to bring into your life, and there is that feeling

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of nothing's ever enough, right. And then it's, oh, is he right

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for me? Should I stay or should I go? This guy's not right for

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me, he's not enough for me, this isn't enough for me. I need

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more. I need a man who's more like this, I need a man who's

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more like that. So, let's just say your relationships align,

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but if you're in your head trying to figure it out, and

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there's a part of you that's blaming him, have you taken full

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responsibility for your world and the energy that you bring

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into this relationship? So, like I was saying earlier, like when,

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if you are already in a relationship, or even you're on

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a first date with someone, can you get into your heart, connect

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with your body, notice your breath, become more present.

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Meditating will help you with this, but actually feel

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appreciation for this moment and this experience. Okay, when men

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feel appreciated, they show up more. But what women tend to do

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is be like, hey, you didn't do this thing, and you didn't do

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that thing, and you forgot to call me, and why don't.. why,

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why don't you tell me how you feel, and what's going on, and

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where are you addicted?

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And we're out there, not enough, not enough, not enough, not

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enough, looking for him, blaming him, looking for why you don't

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feel how you did in the beginning, and we're looking for

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all the answers in all the wrong places, rather than filling

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yourself up, taking responsibility, expanding your

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heart, expanding your life expanding your community and

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your sisterhood, so you're satiated. And then you show up

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in the date, like this was me when I was dating in Greece, I

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was so satiated, my heart was so full, I needed nothing. And men

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loved me, they loved meeting me because I needed nothing. They

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were like, oh my god, you're so different than all the women I

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go on dates with, because, like, yeah, I'm just here, I'm

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present. I'm not looking for my husband, I'm not looking for a

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next date or a text message. I'm just here. I didn't tell them

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this, but that's why I felt different, because I was

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satiated. My heart was full. I was not trying to extract

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something from them, right? And so, when you're, when your heart

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is full and you're satiated. That's the place to live from,

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inside of your relationship. And if you are not that, and your

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pain is there, look in the mirror. Stop blaming your

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partner. Look in the mirror. What is my part? Where am I

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blaming him for my pain? He is not responsible for your pain.

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You are so own your side of the street. What is my pattern?

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Okay, he's selfish, narcissist. That's a favorite word in the

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modern dating world. Okay, well, then, how did I attract

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self-narcissist? Well, I must be a fantasy addict, I must be a

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shapeshifter, I must be a self-sacrificer, because that's

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the only way I would be a match to someone like that, right? So

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owning your side of the street and then learning how to

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actually be an appreciation. Appreciation for what you do

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have, don't just do this in your relationship, do this in your

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life, right? The more you can actually feel the energy of

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appreciation and feel the energy, like let's say you're in

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a relationship and your partner at, you know, plans a date and

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he doesn't normally do that, and even if the date sucks, and it's

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not something you want to do, like let's say he's taking you

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to a football game, and you don't like sports, to actually

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be able to be present and feel into the appreciation for that,

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and for the things he is doing, instead of what he's not doing.

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Right, women always look to what's what he's not doing. In

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the beginning, we pedestal them. In the beginning, we pedestal

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them, we're like, oh my god, I've never met someone who makes

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me feel more beautiful, more this, or that. Wow, he's the

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blah blah blah blah blah. And then later, when we're feeling

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bad, because we gave him credit for all of our pleasure, we're

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now looking to blame him for our pain. Oh, he doesn't make me

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feel like this anymore. He never shows up anymore. The honeymoon

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is over, obviously. He now, he doesn't give a shit. Okay. Well,

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take a look. When was the last time you appreciated the little

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things? When was last time you gave him the energy of

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appreciation and love? Like, just like, wow, it means so much

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to me. Men love this language. It means so much to me when you

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pick me up from the airport or from work. Thank you so much for

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doing that. I love it. I feel so, so moved right now. I feel

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so touched that you went out of your way and picked me up. I

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love you. Thank you. Right, like they, they are wired to win,

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right? They're wired to win, and often with women, they feel like

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they're losing. Why? Because we're, they're so different from

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us. We are aliens to them. Women are far more complex, and it's

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not you that's complex, it's your saboteur, because the

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saboteur is set up to always look for, like, okay, you're not

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enough, you're not lovable and worthy. So I'm gonna, like, I'm

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gonna point the finger out there, because I don't feel

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enough in here, and I'm not taking responsibility for my

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enoughness, for my worth, for my lovability.

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I'm looking to men to fill it, so they're never going to be

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able to. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, right? It's like

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thinking, oh, if I lose 10 pounds, I'll feel better. No,

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you won't. You'll lose 10 pounds, then you'll become

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obsessed with losing 10 more, or then you'll become obsessed with

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the fear of gaining weight. Your fantasy addict, part of your

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saboteur, will never be happy. Nothing will ever be enough, and

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she'll always be like, you just need the ring, you need the

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wedding, you need the kids, you need the picket fence. Oh, then

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you'll feel good, then you'll feel safe in your relationship

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with that narcissist, then you'll feel happy, then you'll

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feel successful in life. But that is your saboteur, and the

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wounded little girl are a bottomless pit. She'll never

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arrive, she'll never feel enough. It's a self-fulfilling

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prophecy. So, if I switch gears and start living from my heart

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and soul, and I take responsibility for my life and

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my community and my sisterhood and my intimacy, that I am, my

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life is filled with emotional intimacy. If I'm deeply desiring

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emotional intimacy in a relationship, I better have it

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everywhere, because if I don't, I'm going to meet a man, I'm

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going to desperately want him to fill that, and I'm going to try

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and get him to be emotionally intimate. I'm going to try and

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change him, I'm going to try and blame him, I'm going to think

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there's some other guy out there. But in my love, until you

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are everything you're expecting a man to be, you will not have

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the thing that you desire. You won't, you'll never get it. You

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might get it for five minutes or for five days, but you'll net,

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not five days, I don't think so. But you'll never attract it,

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because you're not vibrating in that frequency. And, like I

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said, there are men who have an extraordinary emotional

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intelligence. I've met many of them, and they're beautiful, but

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they're still not women. They're still different from women. We

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are netbook, men are from Mars, women are from Venus. We are

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absolutely from different planets, and I think this is one

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of the biggest, um, miss, miss, um, miss nomads, that one of the

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biggest blind spots that people have in relationship is they,

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their men want women to be men, and women want men to be women,

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and, and then we, you know, I think of, like, men are like,

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"Oh, man, women are fucking crazy. It's not women that are

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crazy, it's our saboteurs, but our saboteurs are crazy, and

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they're constantly like them. It's a setup, the saboteur will

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set a man up so he cannot win, and then he'll feel bad, and

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he'll change, and he'll get small, or he'll get distant, or

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he'll get disassociated, and so, like, the number one value that

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men require in relationship is freedom, the masculine, and the

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number one value women require in relationship is safety, and

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you see how they're actually quite the opposite, like women

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are trying to get safety from men, which, as you know from the

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New Truth podcast, your safety is not outside of you, but your

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saboteur will make you think it is. And men are trying to get

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freedom from women, and if a woman doesn't feel safe, a man

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will not feel free, because she's trying to get physical

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safety, emotional safety, financial safety, all the all

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these different types of safety. From him, and the more she's

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clinging and needy, and and controlling, and grasping, and

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attached to getting the feeling of safety and subconscious, he

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will not feel free, and then he'll shut down, he'll

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disassociate, he will go somewhere else, grass is

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greener. He will, he will fight you. He will try and control

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you, because he doesn't feel free. So, in order to make a man

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feel safe, two things need to be in place: trust. So, don't be

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with someone you don't trust, trusting he's got it, trusting

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if he says he's planning a date, he will do it, whether you like

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it or not, like just trusting, you know, that trusting his

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process, trusting that he loves you. If you're in a

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relationship, you know, if your gut is screaming no, then that's

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different.

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But, but if you're in alignment with yourself, you won't choose

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things that are out of alignment with your body and your heart

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and your soul. You won't. So get into alignment, trust and

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appreciation, the more you can pour appreciation to him, the

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more he'll feel like he's winning, and you're happy, and

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he feels relaxed. Then, because men, men feel responsible for

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women's happiness, because they feel they can't relax if a

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woman's constantly demanding on them and trying to get things

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from him, or shutting down from him, or trying to control him,

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they can't relax, right? Men suck at relationships, women do

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too. I mean, no one, you know, nobody was taught how to do

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relationship, and we've all been pulled away from the source of

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who we are. So, most people suck at relationships, but men are

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not relational by nature, their purpose by nature, their purpose

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driven by nature, they're action oriented by nature. The feminine

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heart energy, emotional, intuitive, embodied. The

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feminine woman is the one who leads the relationship, but not

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by trying to get the man to give her something he cannot give

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her. That's a self-fulfilling prophecy. The feminine woman

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leads the relationship by softening and receiving, and

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being in her heart, and appreciating, and trusting, and

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and expressing from overflow, not from from need, not from

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trying to get something by, by showing up, filled up, turned

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on, lit up. So, he, this man needs to do nothing. That's

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perfect, because then his saboteur patterns aren't going

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to kick in if he feels like he needs to do things to make you

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feel good. Now you're in a pattern relationship. Now you're

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in a wound mate relationship. The only way you have the

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aligned heroine sovereign relationship is when you are

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full and he doesn't need to do anything, and he gets to enjoy

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your being and you get to enjoy his and his guidance and his

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intelligence and his whatever it is you're enjoying his humor

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right then you get to relax into the connection and that's where

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the true intimacy exists between a man and a woman but most women

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are so busy trying to control love because a young part of

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them underneath feels not worthy of it, and so that part is

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sabotaging you from ever receiving it, and she's gonna be

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like, "No, it'll be great, Kate. Once I get the perfect man

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that's like literally so evolved, and this, that, and the

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other, then I won't have to do anything, and I say, "Bullshit,

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there is no such thing, and even if you had the most aligned man

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on planet earth, that's still not going to be enough for your

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saboteur and the little girl. You have to learn to show up for

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and with yourself, and this will change who you attract, how you

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attract, and how you navigate relationships. So let the man be

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a man, and deeply appreciate what he does do. Deeply

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appreciate what you do receive from him. And the rest of the

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time, fill yourself up with everything else. Go take dance

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classes, go, like, you know, join an improv class where you

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can laugh your head off, go connect with women in

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unconventional ways. Join a women's circle, start a book

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club, you know, start to bond with women in a deeper way, so

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your heart feels met, so you feel satiated, and you take that

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pressure off the relationship. There's so much pressure on a

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relationship, and yet nobody's investing in the relationship.

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Nobody's tending to the relationship. Nobody's seeking

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to understand our differences in how we can make this thing

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thrive. Everyone's just like, "Hey, got my relationship, check

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that box, now it's good for life. That is bullshit. It is

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not set for life. A relationship is a living, breathing thing.

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You have to cultivate it. You have to take responsibility for

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your side of the street and show up from a different place inside

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of yourself. So take your focus off of him, whether you're at

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the verge of a breakup or the beginning of a relationship or

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anything in between. Take your focus off of him. Stop focusing,

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and even if you're single and you're trying to attract the

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love of your life. Quote, unquote, stop it. You are the

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love of your life. Burn the fucking checklist, as I say

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every week.

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Get rid of the ideal man that you want in the, in the, in the

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what, what you're looking for. Get your attention off of the

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external, and all you need to do is to pay attention to your own

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inner experience and start to devote yourself to that. How do

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I feel internally, and how do I want to feel, whether it's in a

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relationship or, um, or you know, just in your life, and

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your, and even your job, like, how do I want to feel, and start

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to cultivate those feelings in your life, start to cultivate

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the pleasure, start to cultivate the love, the intimacy, the joy,

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like, if that's how you want to feel, cultivate it, and listen

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to those sparks of your soul, and follow them, and, and let

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yourself expand into these corners of yourself. It's, it's

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you you're chasing, it's you you're craving, it's your own

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soul that you're craving, and the saboteurs always going to be

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looking for it in all the wrong places, so stop giving him

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credit for your pain. Stop giving him credit for your

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pleasure. Take full responsibility for all of it.

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Learn to tend to those younger parts of you when you're in

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pain, and look in the mirror. Okay, if you are a selfless

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woman, self less, less of a self, and he is a selfish man,

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and he's triggering the shit out of you because he's so selfish,

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take it, take a page out of his book, go practice being selfish,

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go be in front of the mirror, the most selfish person ever,

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because that's your medicine, you have to learn how to be the

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opposite pattern to find who you truly are in the middle, which

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is self-centered, which is rooted in yourself, which is

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full responsibility for you, okay, flip the knot enough. Stop

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looking for what he can do more of, even if you're the verge of

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a break of a breakup. Stop looking for what he's doing

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wrong and start to look at what he is doing and what you do

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appreciate about this experience, even if it's the

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end, right? Like, how can you be in the energy of appreciation?

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This will go so far, life is so beautiful, and there's so much

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beauty all around us, and there's gifts, and there's

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lessons, and there's awareness, there's so much available to

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you, but if you are in blame, and you're in separation

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consciousness, me against you, right against wrong, you should,

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this should be different, you're in your head, you're robbing

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yourself of experiencing the gifts of all relationships,

Kate Harlow:

including breakups, like there is such a gift in all aspects,

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all facets of relationship, in dating, in being single, all

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phases all have a tremendous gift for you. Are you receiving

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the gift? Are you in the story of separation? Are you in the

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story of blame? Are you in the story of wishing for this

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situation to be different, or thinking there's some other man

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out there who's going to rescue you, or is going to give you

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everything you need. There's not. It's all inside, my love.

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So be the heart you will, you will call forward a completely

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different caliber of man and caliber of men in your life when

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you're living from the frequency of your heart, but you're rooted

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in your sovereignty, you're rooted in your sage, you're

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rooted in your truth, you're rooted in your queen. You stand

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with and for yourself. Your heart is open, you follow your

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heart, you take responsibility for how you feel, and you show

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up in all relational dynamics full and rooted. The world

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around you will change drastically, so stop letting

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your saboteur lead, stop letting your patterns lead, take

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responsibility. This is obviously the foundation of

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everything I do with women, so if you're ready to take

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responsibility and you don't know how, reach out to me. Let's

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have a conversation. I can guide you in so many ways, whether

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it's with me or another direction, but it's time to take

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responsibility, because the only thing that's sabotaging your

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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

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taken, la la la.

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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

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stories, but the sabotage is an inside job, my loves, and most

Kate Harlow:

people are in relationships from their saboteur because they know

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nothing different. Your heart doesn't need protection, your

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truth doesn't need protection, but it needs radical, sacred,

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radical self responsibility. So, time to come home. You've got

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this. As always, share this episode with any woman you know

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who needs to hear, have a little boost, and, and hear it, and

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send me a message. Let me know how it landed, and I will see

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you next week.