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Words With Myself
by Luke Rixson
An introspective deep dive into the void. Exploring the human experience through the eyes of a participant, learning to play the game. ”Words With Myself” Podcast by Luke Rixson.
Episodes
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Getting Comfortable With Discomfort
We often talk about being present when life is good, but what about when things are difficult? In this episode, I explore why our most challenging experiences, from grief and loss to fear, discomfort and uncertainty, can be our greatest teachers. Why avoiding suffering limits personal growth, how...
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The Dangers of Detachment
Change rarely happens all at once. More often, it's the small, almost invisible decisions we make every day that shape who we become and the life we live. In this episode, I explore the power of incremental change, how our habits and patterns influence our lives, and why understanding our true...
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The Paradox of Excess
How much is actually enough to make you happy? In this episode, we explore the hidden cost of excess, the importance of defining what you truly want, and why more money, freedom, possessions, or success doesn’t always mean a better life. From manifestation and goal setting to ambition…
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Perception of Self: The Walking Contradition
You think you’re a good person. You probably also think your mistakes are understandable and other people’s mistakes reveal who they really are. This episode explores the hypocrisy, self-righteousness and double standards we hide behind, and why we’re all far less consistent than we like to believe.
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How can you be new when you are still living old?
What if becoming a new version of yourself meant questioning everything you think you know about who you are? In this episode, we start with something as simple as a tomato and use it to explore identity, reinvention, and the habits we keep carrying forward without thinking. From trying things…
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Me? Me who?
Imagine being plucked from your life and dropped on a remote island: no past roles, no familiar routines, only the raw question of who you become next. This episode opens with that startling thought experiment and follows it into the quiet, relentless truth most of us avoid, we are not one fixed...
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Fear, Ego & the Identity Keeping You Stuck
Fear doesn't always look like fear. Sometimes it looks like excuses, insecurity, overthinking or an identity you've built to protect yourself. In this episode, I talk about how fear and ego shape who you believe you are, why we avoid the things that would expose us, and how to break out of the...
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Anamorphosis
Perspective has a strange way of becoming evidence of itself. If you expect the world to disappoint you, you will notice every reason it has. If you believe you are not enough, you can change your job, your friends, your habits, your surroundings — and still somehow find yourself living inside…
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You learned, have you implemented?
After a short break, we return. Learning is more than just obtaining information, as is healing. What matters is what we do with the information we obtain.
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Restoration of Community
I talk a lot about personal responsibility, accountability, doing the work, taking your power back. All of it. But I also think it’s important to understand the world you’re doing that work inside of. Because you don’t exist in isolation. You exist inside a society, inside a system, inside laws,...
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Confessions of a Master Manipulator
What if being a “master manipulator” isn’t about being cruel, but about trying to keep everyone okay so you can finally feel safe? In this episode, I talk about people pleasing, control, codependency, childhood trauma, emotional exhaustion, boundaries, and the mask we wear when we’ve spent our...
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Invisible Contracts
You have made contracts in your life that you probably don’t even remember. Not the kind you sign on paper, but the promises you made to yourself when you were younger. The things you swore you would become. The people you said you would always be there for. The dreams, ambitions, fears, and...
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You Already Have All You Need
We often ask for more. More money. More time. More energy. More space. More freedom. But before asking for more, maybe we have to look at what we’re already doing with what we have. This episode explores the uncomfortable gap between desire and action. The way we say we want a different life…
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What Lies Beyond Lies
this whole idea that “communication is key” is kind of misunderstood because most people think it just means “say how you feel” but that’s not really it you can talk all day and still not be honest still not be real because the real problem isn’t communication it’s that we’re not being ourselves...
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Alive, but are you living?
This one’s about the difference between being alive and actually living. How you can follow the path, do everything right, build a life that looks fine from the outside and still feel like something is missing. Like your life isn’t really yours.
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What It Means To Be Fearless
To some degree, everything is in relationship. But when it comes to personal relationships, what we are really talking about is closeness. Proximity. How much space exists between you and somebody else, and how much of that space is being created by what you are unwilling to reveal. In this…
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You Are Not Who You Think You Are
There’s a good chance that who you think you are isn’t actually who you are. Most of us build this identity from selective experiences and then just stick to it. We pick a version of ourselves that makes sense and say “this is me” and then we try to be consistent with that. But it’s not real....
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Let Meaning Find You
We all want purpose. We all want something that feels meaningful. But not everyone has that thing. And when you don’t, it can feel like something is wrong with you. Like you’re missing something that everyone else seems to have. I’ve spent a lot of time in that space. Not really knowing what I...
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Who’s Keeping Score?
Who’s actually keeping score in your life? In this episode, we talk about success, failure, and how easily we label ourselves based on a few moments. The truth is, nothing is that fixed. You can feel lost one minute and everything can change the next. This is about zooming out, understanding the...
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Freedom Terrifies Us More Than Failure
Most people say they want freedom. The freedom to live differently. To travel. To start something new. To walk away from the life that doesn’t quite feel like their own. But when the moment comes, when there’s no clear plan, no guarantees, no structure, that same freedom becomes terrifying. In…
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Will it ever be enough?
Is it ever enough? The episode opens with that single, aching question—an ember that grows into a wildfire. You are pushed into a room with a mirror that only shows effort: long nights, missed dinners, the quiet calculus of what must be sacrificed to climb one rung higher. The narrator becomes…
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The Other Side of Suffering
Imagine a life built like a fortress, quiet, safe, and carefully arranged to keep every threat at bay. In this episode we follow a listener who realises their fortress is also a prison: every avoided conversation, every unspoken boundary, every friendship never pursued has been a brick in a wall...
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When Convenience and Comfort Steal Meaning
Imagine a warm blanket and a crackling fire — safe, predictable, pleasant. Now imagine that same warmth wrapped around a life you accepted because the alternative felt unknown or lonely. This episode begins there, in the quiet deception of comfort: not always a blessing, but often a soft…
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Stop existing, Start living
This episode opens with a dedication to Brenda Bude — a woman who taught the host what it means to live a spiritual life through living itself. Rather than a lecture on doctrines or a list of practices, the episode unfolds like a remembered conversation, full of small, human details that reveal a...
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Being present in an absent world
We begin with a simple sentence: "The term be present gets thrown around a lot." It sounds familiar until you try to do it. In this episode, a voice takes you on a morning: the rushed shower, the half-eaten breakfast, the train that’s late, the inbox that never sleeps. You feel the pulse of a...
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The Silent Killer
Stress gets a bad reputation. Like it’s only ever the villain in the story. In this episode, it’s reframed as something far more honest: stress is currency. Every demand you meet, every risk you take, every meaningful thing you build or love costs something. Your nervous system is the bank.…
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The Meaning of Life
When it feels like the universe is out to get you, the question hangs in the air: Why me? This episode opens with that ache—the quiet, furious unfairness of bad things falling on good people—and follows it like a thread through a life that refuses tidy explanations. We step into scenes of...
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How to start feeling again
Imagine walking into a crowded restaurant, the clatter of plates like distant thunder, a laugh that should have been bright but felt dull in your chest. You describe the night in three tidy words—good atmosphere, cheap, friendly service—and tuck that snapshot into memory. This episode pulls that...
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Man vs Woman: The Battle Within
Picture a dinner table where voices rise and then retreat into separate rooms—one partner joins friends to complain, the other seeks kinship in a different circle—and the argument doesn't end, it multiplies. In this episode, we begin not with policy or pronouncements but with that private scene,...
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The Source Of True Strength
Step into a conversation that quietly pulls the rug out from under everything you think you know about strength. In this episode of Words With Myself, the host sits with a simple but radical idea: strength is not measured in muscle or menace, but in the steady courage of the gentle. Through vivid...
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When Momentum Makes or Breaks You
Imagine waking one morning and realizing you are not where you thought you’d be. That small misstep — a lost job, a harsh word, an unexpected grief — nudges a scale that keeps tipping. In this episode, we follow a life tilted by momentum: how one event becomes a cascade, how decisions made from...
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Rome wasn't built in a day, but it could be destroyed in a moment
This episode explores how meaningful progress takes time but can be undone in an instant by impatience and self-sabotage. It examines habits and fears that secretly destroy our efforts and offers a clear call to recognize and address those patterns so you can move forward and protect what you've...
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Stop Running From Pain: The Hidden Cost of Avoidance
This episode examines why people avoid suffering and how trying to eliminate pain by hardening ourselves can create new problems. It advocates for balance, being strong when needed and soft when appropriate. Instead of controlling outcomes, the host urges living in the present, accepting...
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The Empaths Paradox
This episode explores whether our feelings truly belong to us or are often inherited from others, especially for empaths. The host discusses mirroring, social anxiety, and how external emotions shape our identity. By recognizing how we pick up and return emotions, the episode shows how awareness...
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How to Separate Identity from Emotion
This episode explores where feelings come from, how they differ from identity, and why emotions are not absolute truth but valid signals about our experience. It examines how perspectives, empathy, and past stories shape emotions, and why empaths may struggle to separate their own feelings from...
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Acceptance: An Antidote To Anger
This episode explores what true acceptance really means, not merely acknowledging trauma but fully integrating it into who you are so it no longer controls you. It examines how anger can consume life, the difficult work of forgiveness and processing, and offers encouragement to make space…
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect Of The Ego
This episode explores how the Dunning-Kruger effect and self-deception lead us to overestimate abilities and build fragile identities. It explains why projecting an idealized self creates anxiety, depression, and a fear of being exposed. The host argues that real confidence comes from honesty and...
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Confront the Monster: Letting Go of Your Ego and Shadow
This episode explores why change is hard and how treating symptoms never solves the real issue. It explains the need to bring buried fears, shame, and habits into awareness, confront your inner 'monster', and accept all parts of yourself. Through honest self-inquiry and difficult choices you can...
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Suicidal thoughts: The Desire for Rebirth
This episode explores how severe depression and suicidal thoughts often come from a longing for spiritual or ego death rather than a wish to end life. It explains how rigid identities, shame, and unprocessed trauma can trap people and make suffering feel permanent. The host argues that simply...
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Risk Nothing, Risk Everything
This episode uses the coin-toss scene from No Country For Old Men to explore how every day we unconsciously stake everything on our choices and how fear of loss can lead to a lifeless comfort. It argues for intentional, present living: accept risk, be fully engaged in your actions, experiment to...
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Drawn to Your Beliefs: How Perception Shapes Reality
Do you believe that magic is real? Do you believe that God is real? Do you believe that numerology is real? Whether you believe all of those things or none of those things, what you decide your belief is, is what will dictate what you perceive. Target fixation is a term used to describe when you...
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The Power of Language
In this episode the host explores how every word we speak influences our beliefs, emotions, and how others perceive us, tracing language’s power from historical control to today’s everyday speech. The episode argues that words carry vibration and meaning, shaping reality both internally and...
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Embracing Change: The Hidden Cost of Growth
In this episode of Words With Myself, the host explores why change often leads to loss, the fear of being rejected for setting boundaries, and how trying to force others to change rarely works. The episode emphasizes accepting the sacrifice that comes with self-improvement, distinguishing between...
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Gratitude Is Not the Enemy of Ambition
This episode explores how we take everyday blessings for granted, why grounding yourself in gratitude matters, and how noticing your baseline can bring perspective and calm. It also explains that wanting more or aiming for change doesn’t make you ungrateful—gratitude and ambition can coexist and...
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You Are Not Fixed: Reclaim Your Power to Change
This episode explores the belief that our traits are either fixed or changeable, and argues we have the power to change our perspective and habits. It examines confidence, self-ownership, and how reframing choices can help you grow. Listeners are encouraged to take responsibility for their...
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Dream Without Limits: Rediscover What You Truly Want
In this episode of Words With Myself, we explore why adults often struggle to imagine what they truly want, arguing that fear, ingrained defense mechanisms, and responsibilities suppress our dreams. Listeners are encouraged to dream without limitations while also realistically considering the…
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Surviving, but for what?
In this episode of Words With Myself, we discuss quality vs quantity. Many of us pursue longevity and forgo experience quality for safety and comfort, but why live longer in a life you aren't happy with?
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"The Illusion of Control: Embracing Life's Complexity"
In this thought-provoking episode of Words With Myself, we delve into the intricacies of the human ego and the identities we construct. Through deep reflection, we explore how our perceptions often lead us to view the world through limited lenses, resulting in absolute beliefs about fairness,...
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Just Dream: What Do You Really Want?
Welcome to another enlightening episode of Words With Myself. In this episode, we delve into the intricate nature of human desires, distinguishing between short-term and long-term wants, and the surprising juxtapositions that can exist between them. We explore how our perceived wants often...
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A Modern Day Rebelion
In this episode of Words With Myself, we explore the impact of globalisation on the sense of community, particularly in the West. We discuss how traditional familial and communal roles have been monetized, leading to a significant loss of genuine relationships and support systems. Join us as we...
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An introspective deep dive into the void. Exploring the human experience through the eyes of a participant, learning to play the game. ”Words With Myself” Podcast by Luke Rixson.
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