I've had four long-term relationships, and every single one taught me a version of the same lesson. It just took me four times to hear it...
In this episode of In Awe, I get into what love actually is, why communication is the only real bridge between two people, and why the breakup I went through recently sent me down a research rabbit hole into the neuroscience of heartbreak.
I talk about:
- Why love is less a feeling and more a continuous choice to stay curious about another person
- Why expression, not mind-reading, is the only real medium humans have to connect
- How four long-term relationships taught me to let go of anxious attachment, one relationship at a time
- The actual science behind why heartbreak feels like drug withdrawal, and why that explanation made me feel calmer, not worse
- Why the amount of love you receive is directly tied to how much you believe you deserve
- Why we put far more conditions on loving ourselves than we ever put on loving other people
This is an episode about love, heartbreak, attachment, and self-worth, for anyone trying to understand why losing someone hurts this much, and what it's actually trying to teach you... we're in the same boat hehe.
This week's dailydeep question is 123 of 365:
"How would you define your life's purpose? In what ways has your understanding of it changed as you have grown older?"
Send me a DM with your answer. I might read it out in the next episode.
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Research mentioned: Fisher, Brown, Aron & Strong (2010) on romantic rejection and reward circuitry, plus Sussman (2010) and Reynaud et al. (2010).
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And until next time, stay in awe of the big, the small, and the unexpected.
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Everything mentioned + the full dailydeep journal:
Get the dailydeep journal: daily-deep.com
Instagram: @lialiagla, instagram.com/lialiagla
Youtube: youtube.com/@lialiagla
