Ep 197: Why You Keep Losing Yourself in Relationships (and What to Do About It)

It all happens so fast.

One minute you're living your best life. You're hitting the gym. You're journaling. You're doing your embodiment practices. You're going out with your friends. You're going on solo dates. You have hobbies that you love…

And then you meet someone.

It is astonishing how QUICKLY I've seen women go from their glow-up era to "Wait, did I say the right thing? Did I mess up? Oh, he wants to hang out Friday—I'd better cancel my plans. Did that come across as too needy? Was I too much? What if he—"

GIRL. TAKE A BREATH.

Even when you're a self-aware human, it's easy to get swept up in the excitement of a new relationship. You can easily end up abandoning yourself without even realizing it's happening…because when it does happen, it isn't anything catastrophic. It just…happens. A little here. A bit more there.

Until suddenly, when something finally goes wrong in the relationship and you bother to look up at your life for the first time in a while, you realize that you don't even recognize the person you've become.

But WHY do we do this—and how can we stop?

 

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