This episode started as a check-in.

A reflection on where I've been spending my energy. Why the podcast slowed down a little. What’s been shifting behind the scenes.

But very quickly it became something else.

Underneath everything I’m building right now, the podcast, my new publication on Substack, and the work I’m doing with my clients. There is one question that continues to sit at the center of it all.

Do you love yourself?

I'm not asking about the surface-level, “treat yourself” kind of way. My inquiry concerns the deeper, more confronting, more transformational.

What does it actually mean to be in relationship with yourself?

This episode is about.

• The evolution of my visibility and why it no longer feels the same
• Why I’m expanding my work onto Substack and what’s calling me there
• What “intimacy-based living” really means (and why it’s becoming the umbrella for everything I do)
• The moment that changed everything for me. When I realized I had never truly asked if I loved myself
• Why self-love is not a feeling, but a practice, a devotion, a way of relating
• How self-love shapes our relationships with others, our communities, and even how we show up in the world politically
• The difference between surface-level self-care and deep, intimate self-relationship
• The real, ongoing work of examining the stories we tell ourselves
• And, the question I am actively sitting with right now: where am I still giving my permission away?

This is not a polished teaching.

It’s a real-time exploration.

A living, breathing look at what it means to build a relationship with yourself… while you’re still in the process of becoming.

If you take anything from this episode, let it be this:

What does it mean to actually be in relationship with myself?

Because everything changes from there.

Find me on Substack: Intimacy-Based Living