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Light and Shadow: the podcast

By: @light._and_.shadow
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  • Life can feel like the most insane and exciting adventure, while other days it can feel like a living hell of which we cannot escape. Rarely do we feel like we can divulge what we truly think and feel and sometimes we don’t even know ourselves. In this podcast, I hope to dive into the deepest parts of our hearts and minds to find the keys to freedom together. I hope, if I do anything at all, I remind you that there is immeasurable beauty in both the light and shadow. *** follow @light._and_.shadow on instagram for essential graphics and related posts ***
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Episodes
  • 13. Why no amount effort on your part will ever make up for a lack of effort on their part

    13. Why no amount effort on your part will ever make up for a lack of effort on their part
    Apr 30 2024
    After some life changes, we’re back with a new episode examining what to do when someone’s effort toward your relationship suddenly starts to decrease. While I begin by focusing on unhealthy relationships that serves as a continuum of episode 12, I also shed light that some effort levels drop simply because that person is no longer in alignment with you. Sometimes your journey must move elsewhere, and moving on and letting go could be the best course of action. In this episode, we talk about the reasons why we get involved in relationships with people that don’t reciprocate our efforts, while also exploring the effects of staying in those kinds of relationships. We talk about how one sided relationships compare to healthy relationship and how, ultimately, building your self worth and vision for your life is your highest protection and guide to living a truly fulfilling life with quality, mutual effort relationships of all kinds.
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    29 mins
  • 12. Why they didn’t choose you, why you can’t let go, and why rejection really is redirection

    12. Why they didn’t choose you, why you can’t let go, and why rejection really is redirection
    Dec 22 2023
    This episode is in the same “dark intermission” thread as “the case for not choosing the guy (or girl) that makes the huge effort.” In this episode, I examine the questions a lot of us have following the ending of a toxic relationship - particularly the one where we did go for the guy who made the huge effort, only to be dumped just as quickly as they came into our lives. We can’t help but think, “why didn’t they choose me?” “They liked me so much in the beginning, what happened? What did I do? Why didn’t they love me?” So often we focus this conversation around what we did to repel or push them away, not realizing that the basis for the relationship was never even about you or them - it was about a need you both shared. A need that was complementary in the beginning that became contradictory once normal relationship issues come up. Ego and genuine, honest love simply cannot exist together. They negate each other. So while you think you’ve done something wrong, sometimes it’s doing something right that’s chasing the unhealthy people away - and this isn’t a bad things. Sure there could be things you also need to learn and work on, but someone’s ability to love you rarely has as much to do with you as it does with them and the relationship dynamics they are familiar, comfortable, and accustomed to. Sometimes it’s normal, healthy behaviors that push unhealthy people away, and that’s okay - because their rejection really is just divine redirection. Have a listen to find out why and what you can do to stay on your path.
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    31 mins
  • 11. Thought reappraisals

    11. Thought reappraisals
    Dec 22 2023
    After going through the “little learnings” of logical fallacies and cognitive distortions, we finish off this cognitive restructuring segment with thought reappraisals. Thought reappraisals begin with identifying distortions that other people have told us or ones that we’ve told ourselves. By first recognizing that we’ve fallen into thinking traps can we start to find our way back to truth. By finding our way back to truth, we can more easily regulate our emotions by intervening at the thought level, challenging the core beliefs and world views that might be limiting our perspectives. By learning to see as things actually are rather than as we are, or as our trauma has informed us to see, we can move past dysregulation and into a more happy, healthy, and balanced future.
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    16 mins
Psychology Hygiene & Healthy Living
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