When You Want to Give up On Love
There’s a point many women reach where love doesn’t feel inspiring anymore - it feels tiring.
Not because you don’t believe in love, but because you’ve been hurt, disappointed, or let down enough times that you start protecting yourself by pulling back.
The moment when you decide to put your love life on hold or completely give up on relationships all together.
Not as an empowered choice - but as a form of self-protection.
Taking a break can be healthy. But there is a risk when resting turns into resignation… when closing your heart feels safer than staying open.
In this episode, we explore:
- The risk of deciding your done with relationships
- How “I’m fine on my own” can sometimes mask emotional withdrawal
- Why patterns in love don’t disappear just because you stop dating
- What it actually means to stay open without overgiving or self-abandoning
- Why your heart doesn't ever need to be protected
If you’ve been telling yourself you’re okay without love - but something inside you feels flat, disconnected, or numb this episode is for you.
You don’t need to give up on love to take care of yourself. And you don’t need to put your love life on hold to be safe.
There’s another way - and it'll lead you to a lot more intimacy, joy and aliveness in your life.
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and facilitating transformational retreats worldwide, Kate has helped hundreds of thousands of women break free from outdated relational patterns, old patriarchal ways of thinking and unspoken rules to live by.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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Love, even though you think your guards are in
Kate Harlow:reaction to your ex and that, you know, like, I'm gonna block
Kate Harlow:love forever because I was hurt by a man, and I'm gonna block
Kate Harlow:every man on Planet Earth. You think that's, you know, harming
Kate Harlow:someone. The only person it's harming is you. You've heard
Kate Harlow:that statement. Holding on to resentment is like drinking
Kate Harlow:poison and expecting the other person to die. You're not
Kate Harlow:actually hurting the other people. You're hurting yourself
Kate Harlow:because you're walking through the world with guards up. You
Kate Harlow:can walk through the world with your heart open. Your heart
Kate Harlow:doesn't ever need protection. I will tell you this, your mind
Kate Harlow:might tell you otherwise. You need to know how to speak your
Kate Harlow:truth, how to say no when it's a no and yes when it's a yes.
Kate Harlow:Lovingly, you need to know how to stand firmly and rooted in
Kate Harlow:you and how to listen to your own inner compass, rather than
Kate Harlow:everyone else's opinion of what your life is supposed to be or
Kate Harlow:who you should be or what you should do. But you don't need guards.
Kate Harlow:Hello, beautiful. I hope you are enjoying the start to the new
Kate Harlow:year 2026 although I was talking to my friend about New Year's
Kate Harlow:the other day, and it's so funny. It's like such a weird
Kate Harlow:time to have to be in the energy of starting anew. The astrology
Kate Harlow:New Year is a lot is, is when the spring equinox is, and that
Kate Harlow:makes so much more sense to me, because the energy we focus on
Kate Harlow:for New Year's is all about like creating new things and new
Kate Harlow:energy and growing and changing and evolving, which is, it's
Kate Harlow:nice to have these little touch points in throughout the year to
Kate Harlow:actually be really intentional with how we're showing up, to
Kate Harlow:check in, to see if we're, you know, showing up in ways that
Kate Harlow:are in alignment with how we Want to be showing up. Are we
Kate Harlow:growing? Are we are we evolving? Are we staying stuck? So I think
Kate Harlow:I do think it's nice to have these little touch points. But I
Kate Harlow:feel like the big, big New Year really should be the spring
Kate Harlow:equinox, because every that's like when there's life force
Kate Harlow:energy. I suppose this is the spring Well, it's maybe a better
Kate Harlow:time of year in the southern hemisphere, which technically
Kate Harlow:I'm in the southern hemisphere right now. But the spring
Kate Harlow:energy, the beautiful, powerful energy of spring, is such an
Kate Harlow:amazing time to actually create new things and new beginnings
Kate Harlow:and and winter, for those of you that are in winter is such a yin
Kate Harlow:time. It's such a it's such an internal time. So whatever is
Kate Harlow:going on right now, wherever you are in the world, if you are in
Kate Harlow:winter and it's dark and it's cold, let yourself percolate.
Kate Harlow:Let yourself be in pleasure and self love and self care, like
Kate Harlow:maybe this is the time to go inward and actually take care of
Kate Harlow:yourself. That is setting you up for when we go to the Chinese
Kate Harlow:New Year, which is mid Feb, and then to the astrology New Year,
Kate Harlow:which is mid March, and start to build the energy for you to get
Kate Harlow:back into that more Yang creation, action oriented
Kate Harlow:energy. Just wanted to touch on that first. But it's so wild.
Kate Harlow:How fast time is going right now? Are you feeling it? I'm
Kate Harlow:feeling it a lot. I know they say astrologically, things are
Kate Harlow:moving faster. So we are in a time where, even though I know,
Kate Harlow:they also say, as you get older, time goes by faster. But
Kate Harlow:astrologically, the world is moving faster, the time is
Kate Harlow:moving faster, but also time's an illusion. So I would say, you
Kate Harlow:know, if you're feeling my practice with time, and feeling
Kate Harlow:like time is going fast, is to slow down, because if time's an
Kate Harlow:illusion, and I am, you know, rushing, and I have this never
Kate Harlow:ending to do list, and every day is just a series of checking
Kate Harlow:boxes and trying to get through to the end of the day only to do
Kate Harlow:it again tomorrow. Probably time is going to be going by a lot
Kate Harlow:faster. And also, we're not treasuring the time. We're not
Kate Harlow:treasuring this moment and this experience. And I feel like that
Kate Harlow:is the most important gift of all, is to be able to be present
Kate Harlow:in our lives, and to be present and paying attention to what are
Kate Harlow:we doing with our time, and am I doing things that matter to me?
Kate Harlow:Am I making an impact? You know, we just did three episodes in a
Kate Harlow:row around purpose is the work I'm doing in the world
Kate Harlow:meaningful to me? Do I care about what I'm doing? Do I have
Kate Harlow:passions? Am I pouring my heart into things that I love? Because
Kate Harlow:if you're spending your time doing things you love, even if
Kate Harlow:time is going faster and we get to the end of our lives sooner,
Kate Harlow:at least, you spent your time doing what you love. So it's a
Kate Harlow:little bonus. Just thinking about that this morning. I'm
Kate Harlow:about to go on a little spontaneous trip. I got a phone
Kate Harlow:call at 9pm last night from my dear Soul Sister Rose asking me
Kate Harlow:to go on a little trip with her and her partner, because he's
Kate Harlow:going to the coast for work. And apparently the coast of Kenya is
Kate Harlow:incredibly beautiful. White sand, turquoise. Waters. I'll
Kate Harlow:post it on my Instagram, so make sure you check it out. Although
Kate Harlow:I guess when this episode comes out, I'll already be back in
Kate Harlow:Nairobi, but I'm just going on a little spontaneous trip. I am
Kate Harlow:back in Nairobi when I'm recording this episode, but just
Kate Harlow:going on a very last minute getting on airplane and going to
Kate Harlow:the coast. I've never been to the coast of Kenya, and I'm
Kate Harlow:definitely excited to take as many opportunities as I can, to
Kate Harlow:to to explore this beautiful country, but also, again, to,
Kate Harlow:like, make my time matter, do something that actually feels
Kate Harlow:important. So I'm super excited for that. And I thought I would
Kate Harlow:just record this episode before I go catch my flight, because
Kate Harlow:this is a conversation that I've heard, that I hear over and over
Kate Harlow:again, haven't, haven't talked about love in a in a little
Kate Harlow:while, we've been focusing on the holidays, and we've been
Kate Harlow:focusing on purpose. But circling back to the favorite
Kate Harlow:topic of the new the new truth, which is love, dating
Kate Harlow:relationships, and this is such a common thing, the risk of
Kate Harlow:putting your love life on hold, or when you've given up on love
Kate Harlow:and you just want to throw the baby out with the bath water.
Kate Harlow:What sparked this original episode? Or what sparked this
Kate Harlow:episode? I was actually going to record it in the fall, and
Kate Harlow:there's just been so many other topics and interviews and
Kate Harlow:everything. So it's coming out now is I had a Kenyan friend of
Kate Harlow:mine over at my cottage, and she brought her sister with her, and
Kate Harlow:they're amazing, powerful, beautiful women. And her sister
Kate Harlow:was telling me about her love life and just saying, Yeah, I'm
Kate Harlow:just dating for fun, you know, just playing around. But I left
Kate Harlow:my my husband, I think he was unfaithful, and she just said, I
Kate Harlow:am absolutely not open to ever having a relationship again. Now
Kate Harlow:this woman was like, 35 or maybe 30, maybe not even. And you
Kate Harlow:know, it's such an interesting thing that people say all the
Kate Harlow:time. I also have a male friend who's going through divorce, and
Kate Harlow:he said almost the same thing. He's like, I'm I'm just gonna be
Kate Harlow:free forever. I'm gonna be single. I don't have any
Kate Harlow:interest in being in a relationship again. So there's
Kate Harlow:multiple things happening here that I want to unpack. First
Kate Harlow:off, we are projecting what we believe relationship to be after
Kate Harlow:we've been hurt. What happens is we project that past hurt, or if
Kate Harlow:we've been maybe we haven't been hurt, like I think of my male
Kate Harlow:friend, it's not that he was hurt, but but that he was more
Kate Harlow:just stifled, right in an old paradigm relationship, that that
Kate Harlow:was set up in a way that, you know, married with kids and and,
Kate Harlow:you know, things had to be a certain way. And he did, made a
Kate Harlow:lot of choices from obligation. So now he affiliates
Kate Harlow:relationships with obligation and doing things you don't want
Kate Harlow:to do, and being responsible for other people and having no
Kate Harlow:capacity for yourself and putting everyone else before
Kate Harlow:you, because that's what he would do in his marriage. And
Kate Harlow:then flip to the the woman, she was hurt and she was quote,
Kate Harlow:unquote betrayed, and she had dishonesty in her relationship
Kate Harlow:and all of these things. So both of these people are projecting
Kate Harlow:their past pain and their past struggles with relationships and
Kate Harlow:when and remember, most people are in the old paradigm of
Kate Harlow:relationship, which is actually codependency, right? Most
Kate Harlow:relationships are codependent, most but I mean, people don't
Kate Harlow:even know that this is true.
Kate Harlow:Most people, even therapists, don't even know for the most
Kate Harlow:part, that the old relationship model we have been taught, that
Kate Harlow:we have learned in school, is codependent. It's like you're
Kate Harlow:responsible for how I feel. You're responsible for meeting
Kate Harlow:my needs. In the beginning, you make me feel amazing. Later on,
Kate Harlow:you make me feel horrible. You You have to make me feel
Kate Harlow:attractive. You have to make me feel beautiful. You have to make
Kate Harlow:me feel important. That's a Wounded Little kid. You have to
Kate Harlow:make me feel prioritized, right? If you are in relationship,
Kate Harlow:looking to get your needs met, that is a wounded little girl
Kate Harlow:who actually needs your heroine. In my work, your heroine, she
Kate Harlow:needs the sovereign woman to meet her needs, not a man, not a
Kate Harlow:partner. And so if you have been in the old paradigm, and you're
Kate Harlow:now sitting in the story of, I never want love again, you've
Kate Harlow:put love on hold. You're never going to date again. You're shut
Kate Harlow:down from it altogether. Whatever the story is, you're
Kate Harlow:projecting your past experiences onto the present moment. But
Kate Harlow:what if something else was available to you? What if
Kate Harlow:there's a new type of relationship that you've never
Kate Harlow:experienced before that is available to you? I can assure
Kate Harlow:you of this, the deeper you go into your loving relationship
Kate Harlow:with yourself, the deeper you go on this journey. If you're on a
Kate Harlow:journey with me or with any other teachers, mentors, guides
Kate Harlow:or coaches that are helping you come home to yourself, that are
Kate Harlow:helping you love yourself, that are helping you create a life
Kate Harlow:you love, the deeper. You go into that, the more you will be
Kate Harlow:able to create a new paradigm, type of relationship, which not
Kate Harlow:many people on planet Earth have. So the new paradigm of
Kate Harlow:relationship looks like this. It looks like we only get into
Kate Harlow:relationship because this relationship expands us.
Kate Harlow:Expanded love method, that's my entire coaching method, the
Kate Harlow:saboteur and heroin and unlocking the truth of who you
Kate Harlow:are is based on expansion. Does this relationship make my life
Kate Harlow:bigger? Does it make it better? Does it make it richer, more
Kate Harlow:meaningful, more intimate, more beautiful? Most people's
Kate Harlow:relationships actually make their lives smaller. You might
Kate Harlow:think it makes it better, because it's like, oh, it's more
Kate Harlow:efficient. We're sharing rent, we're sharing a home, we're
Kate Harlow:sharing a bed, we're sharing and it might seem like, oh, it's
Kate Harlow:really efficient. It's making my life better. But are you still
Kate Harlow:taking responsibility for yourself in that relationship.
Kate Harlow:Are you growing? Are you evolving? Are you seeing your
Kate Harlow:partner with new eyes every day and allowing them to grow and
Kate Harlow:evolve as they grow and evolve like what kind of relationship
Kate Harlow:are you creating? Do you have open, honest communication? Do
Kate Harlow:you own your pain? You know there's so many episodes
Kate Harlow:about how to navigate triggers. There's an amazing one from the
Kate Harlow:holidays. I've been hearing lots of great reviews about that
Kate Harlow:episode. So if you haven't heard it, go back to it. But are you
Kate Harlow:owning your triggers, or are you projecting your pain all over
Kate Harlow:your partner and making them responsible for you? Are you
Kate Harlow:owning your pleasure, or are you projecting the pain of the lack
Kate Harlow:of pleasure you feel onto your partner, making them responsible
Kate Harlow:for you, right? Of course, you're not going to want another
Kate Harlow:relationship. If you're thinking every single relationship is
Kate Harlow:going to be the same as the last, if you're not taking
Kate Harlow:responsibility for your patterns, then yeah, you will
Kate Harlow:attract a similar relationship in the future, and that will not
Kate Harlow:feel good, right? But here's the thing, you're not a victim
Kate Harlow:anymore. So we spend our lives in such victim mentality of
Kate Harlow:like, as if we have no control over anything, like, Oh, I'm
Kate Harlow:never going to be in a relationship again, because
Kate Harlow:Relationships are hard, and then we blame the relationship. Like
Kate Harlow:why don't you just show up inside of the relationship? And
Kate Harlow:for now, if you're single, show up inside of your friendships in
Kate Harlow:a new way. Show up inside of your relationship with your
Kate Harlow:children or your ex or your whoever you're navigating your
Kate Harlow:colleagues. Learn how to transform how you do
Kate Harlow:relationship, so that you're in the driver's seat, so you don't
Kate Harlow:have to blame relationships forever and ever, and close down
Kate Harlow:a massive part of who you are, and a beautiful opportunity to
Kate Harlow:grow and an amazing opportunity to to you know, I think like
Kate Harlow:love is, is why we're here. That's why we're here, not just
Kate Harlow:romantic love, but romantic love is incredible when we know how
Kate Harlow:to do it, right? The problem is, most people are out there in
Kate Harlow:relationship, trained by the old paradigm, trained by the
Kate Harlow:codependent model, right, that was taught by the fairy tale,
Kate Harlow:that someone's gonna sweep us off our feet. They're gonna
Kate Harlow:rescue us from our tower. They're gonna awaken us from our
Kate Harlow:coma, Sleeping Beauty. They're gonna, they're gonna save us
Kate Harlow:from our lives and from our misery and from our anxiety and
Kate Harlow:our sadness, our depression, and one day, they're gonna make us
Kate Harlow:feel amazing. And then when we get married and mimic the fairy
Kate Harlow:tale fantasy and create this extraordinary, perfect wedding,
Kate Harlow:and then we create a build a family with them and create a
Kate Harlow:life. And it doesn't work out. We're going to blame
Kate Harlow:relationships. We're going to blame relationships forever.
Kate Harlow:We're going to blame we're going to project that that is the only
Kate Harlow:option, and we are going to shut down a part, a huge part, of who
Kate Harlow:we are. Now I'm not saying you have to be in relationship. This
Kate Harlow:isn't about relationship thing, the be all and end all. Of
Kate Harlow:course, I have lots of episodes that are the opposite of this,
Kate Harlow:that this is not what it's about. It's about. Are you
Kate Harlow:taking responsibility for how you're doing anything right, how
Kate Harlow:you're engaging with everything? Are you just blaming
Kate Harlow:relationships and marriages and men or women or whoever you're
Kate Harlow:dating, and just shutting that out of your life and then
Kate Harlow:missing out on so much beauty that you could be experiencing
Kate Harlow:if you were open to it. Because here's the thing, you're not in
Kate Harlow:charge of your life. You you are if you're in your saboteur, and
Kate Harlow:then your life is actually not the life that's meant for you,
Kate Harlow:right? We have two options in this life. We can choose to
Kate Harlow:create co create a magical existence, a beautiful,
Kate Harlow:unscripted path that is made for our soul, that will evolve us
Kate Harlow:and grow us, and that every single experience we have is.
Kate Harlow:Part of that evolution and part of the becoming, and part of the
Kate Harlow:reclaiming and the uncovering, all of the magic that's inside
Kate Harlow:of your own soul and that's available on this planet. That's
Kate Harlow:an option. It's the soul led life, and that's the life that I
Kate Harlow:live. That's the life that all my clients live. The soul led
Kate Harlow:life is so good because you don't, you're not, you're not
Kate Harlow:like, I need a relationship, but you're not like, I'm shut down
Kate Harlow:from a relationship. There's a soft, beautiful place in the
Kate Harlow:middle where you're just enjoying your life. And when
Kate Harlow:love comes around, you're open to it, you're not resistant to
Kate Harlow:it, and you you're in relationship with your patterns
Kate Harlow:as they arise, because they will, right? But if you don't
Kate Harlow:know your patterns, and you're not aware of your patterns, then
Kate Harlow:the then the patterns take over, and then we blame relationships.
Kate Harlow:So the option is the soul led life, or the scripted life. And
Kate Harlow:the scripted life is where you feel like you got to control it,
Kate Harlow:like as if you have to put out a statement to the universe, I'm
Kate Harlow:not open to relationships. You tell everyone, I don't need a
Kate Harlow:man. I'm done with relationships. I'm putting that
Kate Harlow:on hold. I'm never doing that again. What are you doing?
Kate Harlow:You're literally just painting the past over the present moment
Kate Harlow:and your future, and you haven't even met your future self yet.
Kate Harlow:And what if your words matter? What if life is listening and
Kate Harlow:life is like, okay? You want to control your path, okay. You
Kate Harlow:want to choose the man that doesn't feel good to be in
Kate Harlow:relationship with and just stay and be miserable for the rest of
Kate Harlow:your life, okay? You want to blame relationships and shut
Kate Harlow:down from your heart and your intimacy and your sensuality
Kate Harlow:forever and just live a life that's all workaholism and and,
Kate Harlow:you know, disconnection and man hating, okay, the universe is
Kate Harlow:like, go ahead. I don't think it's offended. I don't think the
Kate Harlow:universe is attached to what which choice you make, but just
Kate Harlow:know that it's a choice, right? If you think you know how this
Kate Harlow:story is going to go. Just know that's your guarding talking if
Kate Harlow:you've decided and it's the same on the other side of the the
Kate Harlow:flip side of the coin is the same thing, right? If you're a
Kate Harlow:single woman desperately longing for a relationship and needing
Kate Harlow:one right now, and wanting a husband and needing it and
Kate Harlow:trying to find it. It's the same thing you are trying to control
Kate Harlow:your future based on someone else's story of what your life
Kate Harlow:is supposed to look like. How do I know that? Because the life
Kate Harlow:that's meant for you a I've said this before that David J white
Kate Harlow:quote, you cannot see the path. You can you can have soul
Kate Harlow:desires. You can have feelings in your body, of like things you
Kate Harlow:want to experience in your body, but when you are trying to
Kate Harlow:control your path and what your life looks like now, like
Kate Harlow:shutting love out or being obsessed with having it, you're
Kate Harlow:missing right now and right now is a part of your story, right?
Kate Harlow:We throw the baby out with the bath water right? Now is a part
Kate Harlow:of your story, and it's a beautiful part. And the heart
Kate Harlow:led life, which is living from your heroine, the soul led life,
Kate Harlow:the heart led life, that is the life that is made for every
Kate Harlow:single one of us. But unfortunately, not a lot of
Kate Harlow:people are living from this place when you're truly rooted
Kate Harlow:in who you are, your home in your body, your home in your
Kate Harlow:heart, your home in your soul. The Heart led life is about
Kate Harlow:being with what you're experiencing right now and being
Kate Harlow:open to everything you have no idea where life will lead you,
Kate Harlow:and if your controlled mind and all of these preconceived
Kate Harlow:notions and stories and scripts of of who you're supposed to
Kate Harlow:date, what relationships are supposed to look like, what I
Kate Harlow:think like, what I'm attracted to right now, I've never been
Kate Harlow:attracted to in my life when in a man like the qualities and
Kate Harlow:what matters to Me now have nothing to do with the the
Kate Harlow:checklist or this the the story of what I thought I wanted in
Kate Harlow:relationship before, because I'm just engaging with me right now
Kate Harlow:and with my life right now. My heart is so open and I'm
Kate Harlow:noticing what I'm attracted to the most is energy. If I feel an
Kate Harlow:energetic connection with someone, even in friendships,
Kate Harlow:that's when and the energy just flows. And it's this beautiful
Kate Harlow:reciprocal energy. That's what I'm attracted to. It's not about
Kate Harlow:where they come from, what they look like, what they what
Kate Harlow:they're what they do for a living, how much money they
Kate Harlow:make. None of that stuff matters anymore, because I'm sovereign.
Kate Harlow:I make my own money, I have my own my own life, my own world. I
Kate Harlow:take responsibility fully for myself. I'm not looking for some
Kate Harlow:perfect on paper partner to fill something I'm engaging with,
Kate Harlow:what I'm attracted to in life. And that goes for experiences
Kate Harlow:too. I'm about. To go on a journey to the coast? Yeah, I
Kate Harlow:did, and I am so excited. It was not even on my radar. But a week
Kate Harlow:ago, I wasn't looking for a trip to the coast. I met someone at
Kate Harlow:Ola pangi who was going, who was going to the coast, and she
Kate Harlow:lives in Nairobi. She and her mom were on their way, and
Kate Harlow:actually think they were going to the same place that we're
Kate Harlow:going. And she said, Oh my gosh, Kate, you're gonna love the
Kate Harlow:coast. It's so beautiful there. It's really hot right now, but
Kate Harlow:it's so beautiful. The water is like a warm bath. It's
Kate Harlow:incredible. And I was like, Oh my gosh, cool. And I felt this
Kate Harlow:little spark. And I was like, I wonder when I'll go, I'm gonna
Kate Harlow:I'm not going to be in Nairobi long enough to plan a trip to
Kate Harlow:the coast, because I'm back and forth between here and Ola
Kate Harlow:pangi, and then I'm going to Greece, and then I'm going to
Kate Harlow:Canada. So I just thought maybe I'll go like next year. I guess
Kate Harlow:I'm not going to have time this year. That was one week ago, and
Kate Harlow:here I am going to the coast. So that's the magic of life, right?
Kate Harlow:So, so my and, and when, when I got the invitation to go, even
Kate Harlow:though I had to make the decision last minute, my heart
Kate Harlow:was such a yes. It was just like the feeling of having this
Kate Harlow:experience was such a yes and a yes for right now, right? So
Kate Harlow:this is like with love. Let it when you live from your heart,
Kate Harlow:there's an openness to all energetic connections, but we
Kate Harlow:don't need to make a meaning of where it's going, and if it's
Kate Harlow:not going, Oh, I'm not open to a relationship, or this person
Kate Harlow:needs to be my partner. You see how we're constantly projecting
Kate Harlow:onto the thing, as opposed to just being present with the
Kate Harlow:experience this my loves, will change your whole life when you
Kate Harlow:can learn to just be present with what you feel, and to let
Kate Harlow:yourself be expanded and have expansive moments, and to let
Kate Harlow:yourself create a life that expands you so that that becomes
Kate Harlow:your normal, Right? We only get sideswiped by fantasy, fairy
Kate Harlow:tale love and some like, some hope of like, Oh, here he is.
Kate Harlow:He's arrived, and now I'm going to be rescued when we're not
Kate Harlow:when our life isn't expanded. Like, if your life is dull and
Kate Harlow:mundane and boring and scripted and predictable and empty and
Kate Harlow:disconnected and numb. Of course, you're going to get
Kate Harlow:sideswiped by the idea of some Prince rescuing you on a white
Kate Harlow:horse. Of course, right? But when your life is amazing and
Kate Harlow:you feel so good in your body and your devotion is to taking
Kate Harlow:care of yourself and feeling good in every possible way,
Kate Harlow:physically, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, all the
Kate Harlow:ways, like, if that's your life, and you have designed a life of
Kate Harlow:pleasure, you're not going to need to close to love, and
Kate Harlow:you're also not going to be so attached to it, right? There's a
Kate Harlow:beautiful place in the middle where you're just living from
Kate Harlow:the heart, and you just are following your yeses in the
Kate Harlow:moment and trusting that life has a greater plan. And every
Kate Harlow:time you forget that life has a greater plan for you than your
Kate Harlow:mind ever could just say thank you giving this to you like.
Kate Harlow:Let's say you you meet someone you really like, and your
Kate Harlow:saboteur wants to shut down and run, I'm not open to love, or
Kate Harlow:your saboteur wants to chase them and grab on and, you know,
Kate Harlow:get with them over.
Kate Harlow:Those are the moments where you come back to the present moment.
Kate Harlow:Feel your feet on the ground, take a breath, do some somatic
Kate Harlow:re reconnecting to your own body, to your Soma, and then
Kate Harlow:saying to the universe, thank you so much for taking this I
Kate Harlow:know you've got it. I know your plan. I feel really amazing in
Kate Harlow:this moment at this potential job, or this potential love, or
Kate Harlow:whatever the thing might be, or I feel terrified of it, whatever
Kate Harlow:your story is. You give it to the universe and you say, or the
Kate Harlow:divine, or God, or whoever you want to call it, it doesn't
Kate Harlow:matter. It's just, they're just names. You choose the name that
Kate Harlow:feels the best. You give it to the universe, and you say, Thank
Kate Harlow:you for taking this because the reality is, every time you're in
Kate Harlow:fear of your future, you are suffering. And all that means is
Kate Harlow:you're disconnected from your divinity. Every time you're in
Kate Harlow:fear of the future or you're questioning the past, you are
Kate Harlow:disconnected from your divinity, because the reality is the
Kate Harlow:divine part of you knows that it's all perfect, all of it,
Kate Harlow:every mess, every challenge, every heartbreak, it's all
Kate Harlow:perfect. This is exactly how your life is supposed to go,
Kate Harlow:even if your life is in the script, in the script,
Kate Harlow:controlling life, controlling life, and then one day, Kate
Kate Harlow:says something on the podcast, or I read a book and I and that
Kate Harlow:one line hits me so hard. Or I go on this retreat, or I have a
Kate Harlow:moment in the bath, or whatever the whatever your turning point
Kate Harlow:moment might be, one day, there's a moment where you stop
Kate Harlow:believing. Script, and you stop trying to control your life, and
Kate Harlow:you stop painting a horror story onto every future potential
Kate Harlow:relationship you've ever had, and you actually allow what
Kate Harlow:comes to you to be there so you can grow and evolve and learn.
Kate Harlow:One moment will change everything for you. And
Kate Harlow:sometimes it's many moments. Usually it's many, many moments.
Kate Harlow:It's like the seeds have been planted, and then one day that
Kate Harlow:garden starts to bloom, and you're like, oh my god, I get
Kate Harlow:it. Whoa. I get it. I was a victim, being passive to
Kate Harlow:relationships, blaming relationships, and thinking
Kate Harlow:every future relationship is going to be the same. Because I
Kate Harlow:have no choice. You have all the choice in the world. My loves.
Kate Harlow:You can learn about your saboteur patterns. You can learn
Kate Harlow:about what part you contributed to that relationship that didn't
Kate Harlow:feel good, even if, on paper, it looks like your partner was way
Kate Harlow:worse than you. Even if they betrayed you, they hurt you, it
Kate Harlow:was toxic. What was your part? You played a part, right? If you
Kate Harlow:were in a toxic relationship, were you self sacrificing? Were
Kate Harlow:you shape shifting? Were you ignoring all of those horrible
Kate Harlow:gut feelings that were screaming at you? What is your part and
Kate Harlow:that is right now, instead of just staying in some limited,
Kate Harlow:ridiculous story that love is not for you and you're never
Kate Harlow:going to have it again. Like, how much time do you spend
Kate Harlow:feeding these stupid stories that just keep robbing you from
Kate Harlow:your life versus being with like, Okay, I'm I'm on my own
Kate Harlow:right now. I'm going to get really intimate with myself.
Kate Harlow:Join us in the reclamation. Join me on the heroin journey of
Kate Harlow:uncovering and unlocking all of who you are, like go work with
Kate Harlow:someone and actually use this time to devote yourself to
Kate Harlow:understanding your patterns really intimately and deeply,
Kate Harlow:and use this time to awaken who you really are and unlock All of
Kate Harlow:those repressed parts of you. So the next time love does come
Kate Harlow:knocking on your door, you're not afraid of it, you're not
Kate Harlow:looking for it to save you. You're not obsessed with it.
Kate Harlow:You're not shut down from it. You're not sacrificing for it,
Kate Harlow:right? That's all saboteur patterns, like something else is
Kate Harlow:possible, and I've witnessed heroin after heroin after
Kate Harlow:heroin. Women work with me have the most horrible relationships
Kate Harlow:prior to the journey of unlocking all of who they are
Kate Harlow:and untethering from their saboteur conditioned self,
Kate Harlow:attract relationships and and, or even I think of a woman I'm,
Kate Harlow:I've, I'm working with right now, who is married and has been
Kate Harlow:married for years, has two children, and they have their
Kate Harlow:relationship is better now than ever, like it's a whole new
Kate Harlow:relationship. This is what's available to you. You when you
Kate Harlow:stop blaming relationships, you stop blaming men, you stop
Kate Harlow:blaming being single, you stop blaming being married, you stop
Kate Harlow:blaming all of these circumstances outside of you,
Kate Harlow:and you learn about your blueprint and how you've been
Kate Harlow:doing relationships in the past, and how you can alchemize those
Kate Harlow:protective mechanisms and start to live from the truth of who
Kate Harlow:you are. You get to experience the new paradigm of
Kate Harlow:relationship, which, prior to this moment, didn't exist for
Kate Harlow:you, right? It's such a limited perspective to sit back and just
Kate Harlow:blame relationships and blame other people like you are
Kate Harlow:absolutely powerless, but you're also missing a huge part of who
Kate Harlow:you are. You are missing the magic that you can experience,
Kate Harlow:and the love and the beauty from deepening an intimacy with
Kate Harlow:someone, even if it only lasts for three weeks, even if it only
Kate Harlow:lasts for three months or three years. I don't know why I'm
Kate Harlow:stuck on threes today, but no matter how long this
Kate Harlow:relationship lasts, if you attract one, it's a gift,
Kate Harlow:because it's an opportunity for you to grow, and there's
Kate Harlow:something there for you. So let's rewrite the story like
Kate Harlow:it's time to become the heroine of your own life. The world is
Kate Harlow:changing. Systems are crumbling that we're in the age of
Kate Harlow:Aquarian, which is all about big, dreaming, big, thinking,
Kate Harlow:living, big. You know this is time is flying by. Your life is
Kate Harlow:so precious. Every moment is precious. Why don't you stop
Kate Harlow:projecting the past onto the future? Stop thinking you know
Kate Harlow:how the story is going to go. Stop wasting your time in all of
Kate Harlow:these stories that aren't true, that are limited, that are
Kate Harlow:hurting you, that are keeping you suffering, and come back to
Kate Harlow:your Divine Self, come back to your heroine, where you get to
Kate Harlow:create a new story. You get to not be a victim of the past. You
Kate Harlow:get to create a new story and and not walk through life with
Kate Harlow:guards. Because my love, even though you think your guards are
Kate Harlow:in. Reaction to your ex and that, you know, like, I'm gonna
Kate Harlow:block love forever because I was hurt by a man, and I'm gonna
Kate Harlow:block every man on Planet Earth. You think that's, you know,
Kate Harlow:harming someone, if the only person it's harming is you. You
Kate Harlow:know you've heard that statement. Holding on to
Kate Harlow:resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other
Kate Harlow:person to die like you're not actually hurting the other
Kate Harlow:people. You're hurting yourself because you're walking through
Kate Harlow:the world with guards up. You can walk through the world with
Kate Harlow:your heart open. Your heart doesn't ever need protection. I
Kate Harlow:will tell you this your your mind might tell you otherwise,
Kate Harlow:you never need to protect yourself. You need to know how
Kate Harlow:to speak your truth, how to say no when it's a no and yes when
Kate Harlow:it's a yes. Lovingly, you need to know how to stand firmly and
Kate Harlow:rooted in you and how to listen to your own inner compass,
Kate Harlow:rather than everyone else's opinion of what your life is
Kate Harlow:supposed to be or who you should be or what you should do. But
Kate Harlow:you don't need guards. The protection is only hurting you.
Kate Harlow:It's not helping you. It's not serving you in any way. So when
Kate Harlow:you want to give up on love, just know that that means you're
Kate Harlow:giving up on a huge part of who you are. Instead, make your life
Kate Harlow:like, create a life of love. Create a life of love. Like,
Kate Harlow:let's like, reclaim that word. That word is not just about some
Kate Harlow:person that you share a bed with. Love is who you are. Love
Kate Harlow:is the life that's available to you. You can create a life that
Kate Harlow:you love, where you actually love every person in your life
Kate Harlow:deeply you don't. You're not in stories of blame or resentment
Kate Harlow:or whatever, but you're only surrounded by people who you
Kate Harlow:feel expanded by. You're only, you know, spending time and if
Kate Harlow:you're not expanded by someone that you again take
Kate Harlow:responsibility and look in the mirror and own your own part and
Kate Harlow:take the medicine and the lesson from this person who's
Kate Harlow:activating you, so that you're not just stuck in some victim
Kate Harlow:story, that that you blame your sister in law, you blame your
Kate Harlow:your your mom, or you blame your ex husband, like if you're if
Kate Harlow:you're blaming anyone for your pain, and you're keeping this
Kate Harlow:story alive inside of you that they're at fault for Your pain,
Kate Harlow:you are wasting your life. Your life is so precious. Let this be
Kate Harlow:the year that you become the heroine, that you become the
Kate Harlow:leading lady of a story that you love, of a film that you want to
Kate Harlow:put out to the world, that you be proud of, of all of the
Kate Harlow:adventures you've been on and all of the risks you took, and
Kate Harlow:all of the courage and all of the heart felt meaningful.
Kate Harlow:Moments you had with a lover, with a with a one person, one
Kate Harlow:night on a date that you know, even if it didn't go anywhere,
Kate Harlow:you had one magical night, right? With friends, with with
Kate Harlow:with purpose, your life purpose and doing work that's
Kate Harlow:meaningful, like create a life that you love, then you don't
Kate Harlow:have to protect yourself from anything because you're happy.
Kate Harlow:You're satiated. And of course, let me reiterate, you're not
Kate Harlow:happy in every moment. Then in the moments that the saboteur
Kate Harlow:kicks up, the stories get loud. Know that every time your
Kate Harlow:saboteur is like, I don't need love, I don't need men, I'm shut
Kate Harlow:down. I'm never going to be in relationship again. Know that.
Kate Harlow:Oh, thank you so much, Regina. I see you writing the future
Kate Harlow:again. I hear you. I understand Regina is my saboteur. I name
Kate Harlow:your saboteur if you haven't already, I understand why you
Kate Harlow:want to protect me from the future, from future pain because
Kate Harlow:of past pain. It makes sense. Thank you so much. And then you
Kate Harlow:love up that little wounded girl who's underneath, who
Kate Harlow:internalized the hurt, who made it mean something about her,
Kate Harlow:who's feeling not good enough, not who's feeling deeply hurt by
Kate Harlow:the past. That little girl just needs your heroine to love her.
Kate Harlow:She needs the sovereign woman to say, you're okay, my love, you
Kate Harlow:are going to be just fine. I've got you. You're safe. I'm not
Kate Harlow:putting your your safety in the hands of anyone in the future.
Kate Harlow:But we're going to experience so much love and so much adventure
Kate Harlow:and so many meaningful connections and so much
Kate Harlow:intimacy, and we're going to do it differently this time. Right?
Kate Harlow:Your heroine says that to the little girl inside, instead of
Kate Harlow:the alternative when you're in the story, projecting that
Kate Harlow:you're not open to love, projecting that every man on
Kate Harlow:planet earth is going to hurt you, projecting all of these
Kate Harlow:stories onto your future self and your future that hasn't
Kate Harlow:happened yet, that little girl needs you, and your saboteur
Kate Harlow:just needs to be heard and And and like I just did, I just gave
Kate Harlow:a demo of holding space for her, being empathic, understanding or
Kate Harlow:not empathic, empathetic, like understanding her. I understand
Kate Harlow:why you want to protect me right now. I haven't heard in the
Kate Harlow:past. That makes sense. Thank you so much for protecting me. I
Kate Harlow:actually don't need your services today. I. Right, and
Kate Harlow:then giving that little girl that's underneath every time
Kate Harlow:your saboteur patterns are there and you're in the story of
Kate Harlow:limitation and lack and fear, there's a Wounded Little Girl
Kate Harlow:underneath. So just spend some time with these parts of
Kate Harlow:yourself. Love them up. And that is the sovereign woman that is
Kate Harlow:your heroine taking charge, and now from that place and those
Kate Harlow:parts feeling tended to cared for by the person that they need
Kate Harlow:to be cared for, which is you. Now, you can come back to the
Kate Harlow:present moment. You can come back to the truth. You can come
Kate Harlow:back to allowing life to lead right, allowing life to bring
Kate Harlow:you what you're meant to experience, and you saying yes
Kate Harlow:to all those things that grow you in the meantime, that grow
Kate Harlow:your heroine, say yes to those things that feel scary but that
Kate Harlow:you're excited about, so you can keep growing who you are and
Kate Harlow:your connection to your heart and soul, and then when you're
Kate Harlow:living from that place, you get to experience a new paradigm of
Kate Harlow:love. So much more is available. So hopefully this episode was
Kate Harlow:helpful. Share this with every single woman you know who's shut
Kate Harlow:down from love, every woman going through heartbreak that
Kate Harlow:never wants to go there again. So much more as possible, and
Kate Harlow:you are missing the magic. If you're shut down from anything
Kate Harlow:like trust life, life will show you, and you start to, over
Kate Harlow:time, rebuild that trust, because you see that when you
Kate Harlow:follow your own heart and your own compass, how much life is on
Kate Harlow:your side and how much life in the universe are supporting you
Kate Harlow:on your journey, and that you're not alone and you're not so.
Kate Harlow:Love you lots. If you're curious about the heroin journey, reach
Kate Harlow:out to me. Send me a DM, or you can go to my website and sign up
Kate Harlow:for a phone chat with me, and we can see if it's aligned, to go
Kate Harlow:on the journey together, but it's a pretty life changing one,
Kate Harlow:when you take responsibility for your journey and become the CO
Kate Harlow:creator of it, so you're no longer a victim of the past and
Kate Harlow:projecting it onto the future, so much more is possible. Love
Kate Harlow:you. We'll see you next week.