Jan. 19, 2026

When You Want to Give up On Love

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:

  1. The risk of deciding your done with relationships
  2. How “I’m fine on my own” can sometimes mask emotional withdrawal
  3. Why patterns in love don’t disappear just because you stop dating
  4. What it actually means to stay open without overgiving or self-abandoning
  5. 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and facilitating transformational retreats worldwide, Kate has helped hundreds of thousands of women break free from outdated relational patterns, old patriarchal ways of thinking and unspoken rules to live by.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

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reaction to your ex and that, you know, like, I'm gonna block

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love forever because I was hurt by a man, and I'm gonna block

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every man on Planet Earth. You think that's, you know, harming

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someone. The only person it's harming is you. You've heard

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that statement. Holding on to resentment is like drinking

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poison and expecting the other person to die. You're not

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actually hurting the other people. You're hurting yourself

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because you're walking through the world with guards up. You

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can walk through the world with your heart open. Your heart

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doesn't ever need protection. I will tell you this, your mind

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might tell you otherwise. You need to know how to speak your

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truth, how to say no when it's a no and yes when it's a yes.

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Lovingly, you need to know how to stand firmly and rooted in

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you and how to listen to your own inner compass, rather than

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everyone else's opinion of what your life is supposed to be or

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who you should be or what you should do. But you don't need guards.

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Hello, beautiful. I hope you are enjoying the start to the new

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year 2026 although I was talking to my friend about New Year's

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the other day, and it's so funny. It's like such a weird

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time to have to be in the energy of starting anew. The astrology

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New Year is a lot is, is when the spring equinox is, and that

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makes so much more sense to me, because the energy we focus on

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for New Year's is all about like creating new things and new

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energy and growing and changing and evolving, which is, it's

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nice to have these little touch points in throughout the year to

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actually be really intentional with how we're showing up, to

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check in, to see if we're, you know, showing up in ways that

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are in alignment with how we Want to be showing up. Are we

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growing? Are we are we evolving? Are we staying stuck? So I think

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I do think it's nice to have these little touch points. But I

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feel like the big, big New Year really should be the spring

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equinox, because every that's like when there's life force

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energy. I suppose this is the spring Well, it's maybe a better

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time of year in the southern hemisphere, which technically

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I'm in the southern hemisphere right now. But the spring

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energy, the beautiful, powerful energy of spring, is such an

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amazing time to actually create new things and new beginnings

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and and winter, for those of you that are in winter is such a yin

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time. It's such a it's such an internal time. So whatever is

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going on right now, wherever you are in the world, if you are in

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winter and it's dark and it's cold, let yourself percolate.

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Let yourself be in pleasure and self love and self care, like

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maybe this is the time to go inward and actually take care of

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yourself. That is setting you up for when we go to the Chinese

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New Year, which is mid Feb, and then to the astrology New Year,

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which is mid March, and start to build the energy for you to get

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back into that more Yang creation, action oriented

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energy. Just wanted to touch on that first. But it's so wild.

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How fast time is going right now? Are you feeling it? I'm

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feeling it a lot. I know they say astrologically, things are

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moving faster. So we are in a time where, even though I know,

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they also say, as you get older, time goes by faster. But

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astrologically, the world is moving faster, the time is

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moving faster, but also time's an illusion. So I would say, you

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know, if you're feeling my practice with time, and feeling

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like time is going fast, is to slow down, because if time's an

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illusion, and I am, you know, rushing, and I have this never

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ending to do list, and every day is just a series of checking

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boxes and trying to get through to the end of the day only to do

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it again tomorrow. Probably time is going to be going by a lot

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faster. And also, we're not treasuring the time. We're not

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treasuring this moment and this experience. And I feel like that

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is the most important gift of all, is to be able to be present

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in our lives, and to be present and paying attention to what are

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we doing with our time, and am I doing things that matter to me?

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Am I making an impact? You know, we just did three episodes in a

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row around purpose is the work I'm doing in the world

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meaningful to me? Do I care about what I'm doing? Do I have

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passions? Am I pouring my heart into things that I love? Because

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if you're spending your time doing things you love, even if

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time is going faster and we get to the end of our lives sooner,

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at least, you spent your time doing what you love. So it's a

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little bonus. Just thinking about that this morning. I'm

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about to go on a little spontaneous trip. I got a phone

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call at 9pm last night from my dear Soul Sister Rose asking me

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to go on a little trip with her and her partner, because he's

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going to the coast for work. And apparently the coast of Kenya is

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incredibly beautiful. White sand, turquoise. Waters. I'll

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post it on my Instagram, so make sure you check it out. Although

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I guess when this episode comes out, I'll already be back in

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Nairobi, but I'm just going on a little spontaneous trip. I am

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back in Nairobi when I'm recording this episode, but just

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going on a very last minute getting on airplane and going to

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the coast. I've never been to the coast of Kenya, and I'm

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definitely excited to take as many opportunities as I can, to

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to to explore this beautiful country, but also, again, to,

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like, make my time matter, do something that actually feels

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important. So I'm super excited for that. And I thought I would

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just record this episode before I go catch my flight, because

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this is a conversation that I've heard, that I hear over and over

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again, haven't, haven't talked about love in a in a little

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while, we've been focusing on the holidays, and we've been

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focusing on purpose. But circling back to the favorite

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topic of the new the new truth, which is love, dating

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relationships, and this is such a common thing, the risk of

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putting your love life on hold, or when you've given up on love

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and you just want to throw the baby out with the bath water.

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What sparked this original episode? Or what sparked this

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episode? I was actually going to record it in the fall, and

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there's just been so many other topics and interviews and

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everything. So it's coming out now is I had a Kenyan friend of

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mine over at my cottage, and she brought her sister with her, and

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they're amazing, powerful, beautiful women. And her sister

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was telling me about her love life and just saying, Yeah, I'm

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just dating for fun, you know, just playing around. But I left

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my my husband, I think he was unfaithful, and she just said, I

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am absolutely not open to ever having a relationship again. Now

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this woman was like, 35 or maybe 30, maybe not even. And you

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know, it's such an interesting thing that people say all the

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time. I also have a male friend who's going through divorce, and

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he said almost the same thing. He's like, I'm I'm just gonna be

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free forever. I'm gonna be single. I don't have any

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interest in being in a relationship again. So there's

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multiple things happening here that I want to unpack. First

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off, we are projecting what we believe relationship to be after

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we've been hurt. What happens is we project that past hurt, or if

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we've been maybe we haven't been hurt, like I think of my male

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friend, it's not that he was hurt, but but that he was more

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just stifled, right in an old paradigm relationship, that that

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was set up in a way that, you know, married with kids and and,

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you know, things had to be a certain way. And he did, made a

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lot of choices from obligation. So now he affiliates

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relationships with obligation and doing things you don't want

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to do, and being responsible for other people and having no

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capacity for yourself and putting everyone else before

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you, because that's what he would do in his marriage. And

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then flip to the the woman, she was hurt and she was quote,

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unquote betrayed, and she had dishonesty in her relationship

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and all of these things. So both of these people are projecting

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their past pain and their past struggles with relationships and

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when and remember, most people are in the old paradigm of

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relationship, which is actually codependency, right? Most

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relationships are codependent, most but I mean, people don't

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even know that this is true.

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Most people, even therapists, don't even know for the most

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part, that the old relationship model we have been taught, that

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we have learned in school, is codependent. It's like you're

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responsible for how I feel. You're responsible for meeting

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my needs. In the beginning, you make me feel amazing. Later on,

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you make me feel horrible. You You have to make me feel

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attractive. You have to make me feel beautiful. You have to make

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me feel important. That's a Wounded Little kid. You have to

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make me feel prioritized, right? If you are in relationship,

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looking to get your needs met, that is a wounded little girl

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who actually needs your heroine. In my work, your heroine, she

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needs the sovereign woman to meet her needs, not a man, not a

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partner. And so if you have been in the old paradigm, and you're

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now sitting in the story of, I never want love again, you've

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put love on hold. You're never going to date again. You're shut

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down from it altogether. Whatever the story is, you're

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projecting your past experiences onto the present moment. But

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what if something else was available to you? What if

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there's a new type of relationship that you've never

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experienced before that is available to you? I can assure

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you of this, the deeper you go into your loving relationship

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with yourself, the deeper you go on this journey. If you're on a

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journey with me or with any other teachers, mentors, guides

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or coaches that are helping you come home to yourself, that are

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helping you love yourself, that are helping you create a life

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you love, the deeper. You go into that, the more you will be

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able to create a new paradigm, type of relationship, which not

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many people on planet Earth have. So the new paradigm of

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relationship looks like this. It looks like we only get into

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relationship because this relationship expands us.

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Expanded love method, that's my entire coaching method, the

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saboteur and heroin and unlocking the truth of who you

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are is based on expansion. Does this relationship make my life

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bigger? Does it make it better? Does it make it richer, more

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meaningful, more intimate, more beautiful? Most people's

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relationships actually make their lives smaller. You might

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think it makes it better, because it's like, oh, it's more

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efficient. We're sharing rent, we're sharing a home, we're

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sharing a bed, we're sharing and it might seem like, oh, it's

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really efficient. It's making my life better. But are you still

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taking responsibility for yourself in that relationship.

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Are you growing? Are you evolving? Are you seeing your

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partner with new eyes every day and allowing them to grow and

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evolve as they grow and evolve like what kind of relationship

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are you creating? Do you have open, honest communication? Do

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you own your pain? You know there's so many episodes

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about how to navigate triggers. There's an amazing one from the

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holidays. I've been hearing lots of great reviews about that

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episode. So if you haven't heard it, go back to it. But are you

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owning your triggers, or are you projecting your pain all over

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your partner and making them responsible for you? Are you

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owning your pleasure, or are you projecting the pain of the lack

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of pleasure you feel onto your partner, making them responsible

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for you, right? Of course, you're not going to want another

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relationship. If you're thinking every single relationship is

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going to be the same as the last, if you're not taking

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responsibility for your patterns, then yeah, you will

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attract a similar relationship in the future, and that will not

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feel good, right? But here's the thing, you're not a victim

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anymore. So we spend our lives in such victim mentality of

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like, as if we have no control over anything, like, Oh, I'm

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never going to be in a relationship again, because

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Relationships are hard, and then we blame the relationship. Like

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why don't you just show up inside of the relationship? And

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for now, if you're single, show up inside of your friendships in

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a new way. Show up inside of your relationship with your

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children or your ex or your whoever you're navigating your

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colleagues. Learn how to transform how you do

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relationship, so that you're in the driver's seat, so you don't

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have to blame relationships forever and ever, and close down

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a massive part of who you are, and a beautiful opportunity to

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grow and an amazing opportunity to to you know, I think like

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love is, is why we're here. That's why we're here, not just

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romantic love, but romantic love is incredible when we know how

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to do it, right? The problem is, most people are out there in

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relationship, trained by the old paradigm, trained by the

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codependent model, right, that was taught by the fairy tale,

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that someone's gonna sweep us off our feet. They're gonna

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rescue us from our tower. They're gonna awaken us from our

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coma, Sleeping Beauty. They're gonna, they're gonna save us

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from our lives and from our misery and from our anxiety and

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our sadness, our depression, and one day, they're gonna make us

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feel amazing. And then when we get married and mimic the fairy

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tale fantasy and create this extraordinary, perfect wedding,

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and then we create a build a family with them and create a

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life. And it doesn't work out. We're going to blame

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relationships. We're going to blame relationships forever.

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We're going to blame we're going to project that that is the only

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option, and we are going to shut down a part, a huge part, of who

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we are. Now I'm not saying you have to be in relationship. This

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isn't about relationship thing, the be all and end all. Of

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course, I have lots of episodes that are the opposite of this,

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that this is not what it's about. It's about. Are you

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taking responsibility for how you're doing anything right, how

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you're engaging with everything? Are you just blaming

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relationships and marriages and men or women or whoever you're

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dating, and just shutting that out of your life and then

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missing out on so much beauty that you could be experiencing

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if you were open to it. Because here's the thing, you're not in

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charge of your life. You you are if you're in your saboteur, and

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then your life is actually not the life that's meant for you,

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right? We have two options in this life. We can choose to

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create co create a magical existence, a beautiful,

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unscripted path that is made for our soul, that will evolve us

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and grow us, and that every single experience we have is.

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Part of that evolution and part of the becoming, and part of the

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reclaiming and the uncovering, all of the magic that's inside

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of your own soul and that's available on this planet. That's

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an option. It's the soul led life, and that's the life that I

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live. That's the life that all my clients live. The soul led

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life is so good because you don't, you're not, you're not

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like, I need a relationship, but you're not like, I'm shut down

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from a relationship. There's a soft, beautiful place in the

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middle where you're just enjoying your life. And when

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love comes around, you're open to it, you're not resistant to

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it, and you you're in relationship with your patterns

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as they arise, because they will, right? But if you don't

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know your patterns, and you're not aware of your patterns, then

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the then the patterns take over, and then we blame relationships.

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So the option is the soul led life, or the scripted life. And

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the scripted life is where you feel like you got to control it,

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like as if you have to put out a statement to the universe, I'm

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not open to relationships. You tell everyone, I don't need a

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man. I'm done with relationships. I'm putting that

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on hold. I'm never doing that again. What are you doing?

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You're literally just painting the past over the present moment

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and your future, and you haven't even met your future self yet.

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And what if your words matter? What if life is listening and

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life is like, okay? You want to control your path, okay. You

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want to choose the man that doesn't feel good to be in

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relationship with and just stay and be miserable for the rest of

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your life, okay? You want to blame relationships and shut

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down from your heart and your intimacy and your sensuality

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forever and just live a life that's all workaholism and and,

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you know, disconnection and man hating, okay, the universe is

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like, go ahead. I don't think it's offended. I don't think the

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universe is attached to what which choice you make, but just

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know that it's a choice, right? If you think you know how this

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story is going to go. Just know that's your guarding talking if

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you've decided and it's the same on the other side of the the

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flip side of the coin is the same thing, right? If you're a

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single woman desperately longing for a relationship and needing

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one right now, and wanting a husband and needing it and

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trying to find it. It's the same thing you are trying to control

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your future based on someone else's story of what your life

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is supposed to look like. How do I know that? Because the life

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that's meant for you a I've said this before that David J white

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quote, you cannot see the path. You can you can have soul

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desires. You can have feelings in your body, of like things you

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want to experience in your body, but when you are trying to

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control your path and what your life looks like now, like

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shutting love out or being obsessed with having it, you're

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missing right now and right now is a part of your story, right?

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We throw the baby out with the bath water right? Now is a part

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of your story, and it's a beautiful part. And the heart

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led life, which is living from your heroine, the soul led life,

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the heart led life, that is the life that is made for every

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single one of us. But unfortunately, not a lot of

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people are living from this place when you're truly rooted

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in who you are, your home in your body, your home in your

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heart, your home in your soul. The Heart led life is about

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being with what you're experiencing right now and being

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open to everything you have no idea where life will lead you,

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and if your controlled mind and all of these preconceived

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notions and stories and scripts of of who you're supposed to

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date, what relationships are supposed to look like, what I

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think like, what I'm attracted to right now, I've never been

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attracted to in my life when in a man like the qualities and

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what matters to Me now have nothing to do with the the

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checklist or this the the story of what I thought I wanted in

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relationship before, because I'm just engaging with me right now

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and with my life right now. My heart is so open and I'm

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noticing what I'm attracted to the most is energy. If I feel an

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energetic connection with someone, even in friendships,

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that's when and the energy just flows. And it's this beautiful

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reciprocal energy. That's what I'm attracted to. It's not about

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where they come from, what they look like, what they what

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they're what they do for a living, how much money they

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make. None of that stuff matters anymore, because I'm sovereign.

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I make my own money, I have my own my own life, my own world. I

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take responsibility fully for myself. I'm not looking for some

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perfect on paper partner to fill something I'm engaging with,

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what I'm attracted to in life. And that goes for experiences

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too. I'm about. To go on a journey to the coast? Yeah, I

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did, and I am so excited. It was not even on my radar. But a week

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ago, I wasn't looking for a trip to the coast. I met someone at

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Ola pangi who was going, who was going to the coast, and she

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lives in Nairobi. She and her mom were on their way, and

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actually think they were going to the same place that we're

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going. And she said, Oh my gosh, Kate, you're gonna love the

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coast. It's so beautiful there. It's really hot right now, but

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it's so beautiful. The water is like a warm bath. It's

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incredible. And I was like, Oh my gosh, cool. And I felt this

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little spark. And I was like, I wonder when I'll go, I'm gonna

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I'm not going to be in Nairobi long enough to plan a trip to

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the coast, because I'm back and forth between here and Ola

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pangi, and then I'm going to Greece, and then I'm going to

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Canada. So I just thought maybe I'll go like next year. I guess

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I'm not going to have time this year. That was one week ago, and

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here I am going to the coast. So that's the magic of life, right?

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So, so my and, and when, when I got the invitation to go, even

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though I had to make the decision last minute, my heart

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was such a yes. It was just like the feeling of having this

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experience was such a yes and a yes for right now, right? So

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this is like with love. Let it when you live from your heart,

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there's an openness to all energetic connections, but we

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don't need to make a meaning of where it's going, and if it's

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not going, Oh, I'm not open to a relationship, or this person

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needs to be my partner. You see how we're constantly projecting

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onto the thing, as opposed to just being present with the

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experience this my loves, will change your whole life when you

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can learn to just be present with what you feel, and to let

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yourself be expanded and have expansive moments, and to let

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yourself create a life that expands you so that that becomes

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your normal, Right? We only get sideswiped by fantasy, fairy

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tale love and some like, some hope of like, Oh, here he is.

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He's arrived, and now I'm going to be rescued when we're not

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when our life isn't expanded. Like, if your life is dull and

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mundane and boring and scripted and predictable and empty and

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disconnected and numb. Of course, you're going to get

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sideswiped by the idea of some Prince rescuing you on a white

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horse. Of course, right? But when your life is amazing and

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you feel so good in your body and your devotion is to taking

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care of yourself and feeling good in every possible way,

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physically, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, all the

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ways, like, if that's your life, and you have designed a life of

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pleasure, you're not going to need to close to love, and

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you're also not going to be so attached to it, right? There's a

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beautiful place in the middle where you're just living from

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the heart, and you just are following your yeses in the

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moment and trusting that life has a greater plan. And every

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time you forget that life has a greater plan for you than your

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mind ever could just say thank you giving this to you like.

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Let's say you you meet someone you really like, and your

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saboteur wants to shut down and run, I'm not open to love, or

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your saboteur wants to chase them and grab on and, you know,

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get with them over.

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Those are the moments where you come back to the present moment.

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Feel your feet on the ground, take a breath, do some somatic

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re reconnecting to your own body, to your Soma, and then

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saying to the universe, thank you so much for taking this I

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know you've got it. I know your plan. I feel really amazing in

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this moment at this potential job, or this potential love, or

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whatever the thing might be, or I feel terrified of it, whatever

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your story is. You give it to the universe and you say, or the

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divine, or God, or whoever you want to call it, it doesn't

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matter. It's just, they're just names. You choose the name that

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feels the best. You give it to the universe, and you say, Thank

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you for taking this because the reality is, every time you're in

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fear of your future, you are suffering. And all that means is

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you're disconnected from your divinity. Every time you're in

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fear of the future or you're questioning the past, you are

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disconnected from your divinity, because the reality is the

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divine part of you knows that it's all perfect, all of it,

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every mess, every challenge, every heartbreak, it's all

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perfect. This is exactly how your life is supposed to go,

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even if your life is in the script, in the script,

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controlling life, controlling life, and then one day, Kate

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says something on the podcast, or I read a book and I and that

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one line hits me so hard. Or I go on this retreat, or I have a

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moment in the bath, or whatever the whatever your turning point

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moment might be, one day, there's a moment where you stop

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believing. Script, and you stop trying to control your life, and

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you stop painting a horror story onto every future potential

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relationship you've ever had, and you actually allow what

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comes to you to be there so you can grow and evolve and learn.

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One moment will change everything for you. And

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sometimes it's many moments. Usually it's many, many moments.

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It's like the seeds have been planted, and then one day that

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garden starts to bloom, and you're like, oh my god, I get

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it. Whoa. I get it. I was a victim, being passive to

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relationships, blaming relationships, and thinking

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every future relationship is going to be the same. Because I

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have no choice. You have all the choice in the world. My loves.

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You can learn about your saboteur patterns. You can learn

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about what part you contributed to that relationship that didn't

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feel good, even if, on paper, it looks like your partner was way

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worse than you. Even if they betrayed you, they hurt you, it

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was toxic. What was your part? You played a part, right? If you

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were in a toxic relationship, were you self sacrificing? Were

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you shape shifting? Were you ignoring all of those horrible

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gut feelings that were screaming at you? What is your part and

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that is right now, instead of just staying in some limited,

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ridiculous story that love is not for you and you're never

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going to have it again. Like, how much time do you spend

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feeding these stupid stories that just keep robbing you from

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your life versus being with like, Okay, I'm I'm on my own

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right now. I'm going to get really intimate with myself.

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Join us in the reclamation. Join me on the heroin journey of

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uncovering and unlocking all of who you are, like go work with

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someone and actually use this time to devote yourself to

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understanding your patterns really intimately and deeply,

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and use this time to awaken who you really are and unlock All of

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those repressed parts of you. So the next time love does come

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knocking on your door, you're not afraid of it, you're not

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looking for it to save you. You're not obsessed with it.

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You're not shut down from it. You're not sacrificing for it,

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right? That's all saboteur patterns, like something else is

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possible, and I've witnessed heroin after heroin after

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heroin. Women work with me have the most horrible relationships

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prior to the journey of unlocking all of who they are

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and untethering from their saboteur conditioned self,

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attract relationships and and, or even I think of a woman I'm,

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I've, I'm working with right now, who is married and has been

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married for years, has two children, and they have their

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relationship is better now than ever, like it's a whole new

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relationship. This is what's available to you. You when you

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stop blaming relationships, you stop blaming men, you stop

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blaming being single, you stop blaming being married, you stop

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blaming all of these circumstances outside of you,

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and you learn about your blueprint and how you've been

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doing relationships in the past, and how you can alchemize those

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protective mechanisms and start to live from the truth of who

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you are. You get to experience the new paradigm of

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relationship, which, prior to this moment, didn't exist for

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you, right? It's such a limited perspective to sit back and just

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blame relationships and blame other people like you are

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absolutely powerless, but you're also missing a huge part of who

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you are. You are missing the magic that you can experience,

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and the love and the beauty from deepening an intimacy with

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someone, even if it only lasts for three weeks, even if it only

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lasts for three months or three years. I don't know why I'm

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stuck on threes today, but no matter how long this

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relationship lasts, if you attract one, it's a gift,

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because it's an opportunity for you to grow, and there's

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something there for you. So let's rewrite the story like

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it's time to become the heroine of your own life. The world is

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changing. Systems are crumbling that we're in the age of

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Aquarian, which is all about big, dreaming, big, thinking,

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living, big. You know this is time is flying by. Your life is

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so precious. Every moment is precious. Why don't you stop

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projecting the past onto the future? Stop thinking you know

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how the story is going to go. Stop wasting your time in all of

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these stories that aren't true, that are limited, that are

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hurting you, that are keeping you suffering, and come back to

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your Divine Self, come back to your heroine, where you get to

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create a new story. You get to not be a victim of the past. You

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get to create a new story and and not walk through life with

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guards. Because my love, even though you think your guards are

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in. Reaction to your ex and that, you know, like, I'm gonna

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block love forever because I was hurt by a man, and I'm gonna

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block every man on Planet Earth. You think that's, you know,

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harming someone, if the only person it's harming is you. You

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know you've heard that statement. Holding on to

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resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other

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person to die like you're not actually hurting the other

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people. You're hurting yourself because you're walking through

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the world with guards up. You can walk through the world with

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your heart open. Your heart doesn't ever need protection. I

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will tell you this your your mind might tell you otherwise,

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you never need to protect yourself. You need to know how

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to speak your truth, how to say no when it's a no and yes when

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it's a yes. Lovingly, you need to know how to stand firmly and

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rooted in you and how to listen to your own inner compass,

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rather than everyone else's opinion of what your life is

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supposed to be or who you should be or what you should do. But

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you don't need guards. The protection is only hurting you.

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It's not helping you. It's not serving you in any way. So when

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you want to give up on love, just know that that means you're

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giving up on a huge part of who you are. Instead, make your life

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like, create a life of love. Create a life of love. Like,

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let's like, reclaim that word. That word is not just about some

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person that you share a bed with. Love is who you are. Love

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is the life that's available to you. You can create a life that

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you love, where you actually love every person in your life

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deeply you don't. You're not in stories of blame or resentment

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or whatever, but you're only surrounded by people who you

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feel expanded by. You're only, you know, spending time and if

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you're not expanded by someone that you again take

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responsibility and look in the mirror and own your own part and

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take the medicine and the lesson from this person who's

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activating you, so that you're not just stuck in some victim

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story, that that you blame your sister in law, you blame your

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your your mom, or you blame your ex husband, like if you're if

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you're blaming anyone for your pain, and you're keeping this

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story alive inside of you that they're at fault for Your pain,

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you are wasting your life. Your life is so precious. Let this be

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the year that you become the heroine, that you become the

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leading lady of a story that you love, of a film that you want to

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put out to the world, that you be proud of, of all of the

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adventures you've been on and all of the risks you took, and

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all of the courage and all of the heart felt meaningful.

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Moments you had with a lover, with a with a one person, one

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night on a date that you know, even if it didn't go anywhere,

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you had one magical night, right? With friends, with with

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with purpose, your life purpose and doing work that's

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meaningful, like create a life that you love, then you don't

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have to protect yourself from anything because you're happy.

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You're satiated. And of course, let me reiterate, you're not

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happy in every moment. Then in the moments that the saboteur

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kicks up, the stories get loud. Know that every time your

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saboteur is like, I don't need love, I don't need men, I'm shut

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down. I'm never going to be in relationship again. Know that.

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Oh, thank you so much, Regina. I see you writing the future

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again. I hear you. I understand Regina is my saboteur. I name

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your saboteur if you haven't already, I understand why you

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want to protect me from the future, from future pain because

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of past pain. It makes sense. Thank you so much. And then you

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love up that little wounded girl who's underneath, who

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internalized the hurt, who made it mean something about her,

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who's feeling not good enough, not who's feeling deeply hurt by

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the past. That little girl just needs your heroine to love her.

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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

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putting your your safety in the hands of anyone in the future.

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But we're going to experience so much love and so much adventure

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and so many meaningful connections and so much

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intimacy, and we're going to do it differently this time. Right?

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Your heroine says that to the little girl inside, instead of

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the alternative when you're in the story, projecting that

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you're not open to love, projecting that every man on

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planet earth is going to hurt you, projecting all of these

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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

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a demo of holding space for her, being empathic, understanding or

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not empathic, empathetic, like understanding her. I understand

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why you want to protect me right now. I haven't heard in the

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past. That makes sense. Thank you so much for protecting me. I

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actually don't need your services today. I. Right, and

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then giving that little girl that's underneath every time

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your saboteur patterns are there and you're in the story of

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limitation and lack and fear, there's a Wounded Little Girl

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underneath. So just spend some time with these parts of

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yourself. Love them up. And that is the sovereign woman that is

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your heroine taking charge, and now from that place and those

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parts feeling tended to cared for by the person that they need

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to be cared for, which is you. Now, you can come back to the

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present moment. You can come back to the truth. You can come

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back to allowing life to lead right, allowing life to bring

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you what you're meant to experience, and you saying yes

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to all those things that grow you in the meantime, that grow

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your heroine, say yes to those things that feel scary but that

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you're excited about, so you can keep growing who you are and

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your connection to your heart and soul, and then when you're

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living from that place, you get to experience a new paradigm of

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love. So much more is available. So hopefully this episode was

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helpful. Share this with every single woman you know who's shut

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down from love, every woman going through heartbreak that

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never wants to go there again. So much more as possible, and

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you are missing the magic. If you're shut down from anything

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like trust life, life will show you, and you start to, over

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time, rebuild that trust, because you see that when you

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follow your own heart and your own compass, how much life is on

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your side and how much life in the universe are supporting you

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on your journey, and that you're not alone and you're not so.

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Love you lots. If you're curious about the heroin journey, reach

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out to me. Send me a DM, or you can go to my website and sign up

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for a phone chat with me, and we can see if it's aligned, to go

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on the journey together, but it's a pretty life changing one,

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when you take responsibility for your journey and become the CO

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creator of it, so you're no longer a victim of the past and

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projecting it onto the future, so much more is possible. Love

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you. We'll see you next week.