Ep 8 | The Love Fast: The Sacred Pause That Changes How You Date Forever with Gabrielle Bodzin and Tara Tao

In this special episode, Tara Tao is joined by Gabrielle Bodzin, a deeply trusted ally and co-founder of The Love Fast: A Sacred Pause to Date Yourself.

🔗 Learn more and register:
www.thelovefast.com

Together, Tara and Gabrielle share an expansive conversation on love, dating, intimacy, attachment, and self-worth, offering guidance on approaching dating in a way that truly supports evolutionary love in this lifetime.

This episode is for anyone who has recently left a long-term relationship, feels caught in intense crushes or short-lived situationships, or longs for spiritual union in partnership without losing a sense of self.

Tara and Gabrielle explore limerence, a nervous-system-driven state of intense attraction and preoccupation that is often mistaken for love, yet is more accurately understood as an attachment-based pattern rather than secure connection.

Limerence activates early attachment imprints, often drawing attention away from clarity, self-trust, personal power, and embodied presence by orienting safety and belonging toward another person.

In this conversation, Tara and Gabrielle unpack how modern dating culture, attachment wounds, and the over-emphasis on placing romantic fulfillment onto one person can keep people caught in looping patterns of longing, obsession, isolation, and self-abandonment.

The episode offers a gentle yet radical reframe:

What if the path to real partnership begins with a sacred pause?

Blending somatic-based healing, psychoeducation, ancient wisdom traditions, and embodied lived experience, this conversation offers a grounded and compassionate pathway toward love that is real, sustainable, and aligned with greater destiny.

• What limerence is, how it differs from secure love, and why it feels so intoxicating to the nervous system
• Why losing oneself in love is an attachment-based nervous system pattern, not a personal flaw
• How early attachment dynamics shape attraction, chemistry, and dating choices
• Why boredom, mindfulness, and reduced romantic stimulation can support healing and resensitization
• What evolutionary love requires beyond chemistry, including capacity, nervous system safety, and shared vision for life
• How returning to your body, inner creativity, eros, and spiritual practice supports sustainable partnership
• How to reclaim intimacy, depth, and connection across your life rather than locating them solely in romance

💧 Join The Love Fast: A 4-Month Sacred Pause to Date Yourself

A community-based journey for women ready to break old dating patterns, redirect energy inward, and cultivate inner safety, security, and self-trust from within.

🍃 The Love Fast Begins March 14, 2026.

🔗 Learn more and register:
www.thelovefast.com

Learn more and connect with our featured guest Gabrielle Bodzin:

https://www.gabriellebodzin.com/

https://www.instagram.com/realizinglove

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