And here's the thing, if loneliness is the part
Kate Harlow:of you that is dating, if loneliness is the part of you
Kate Harlow:that's choosing a partner that's trying to find love, you are not
Kate Harlow:going to attract a healthy relationship. Why? Because
Kate Harlow:that's a saboteur setup for a saboteur relationship. Because
Kate Harlow:loneliness is simply a feeling that you feel because you're
Kate Harlow:believing a story, that the state that you're in and what
Kate Harlow:you're experiencing right now is not right, that it's not
Kate Harlow:aligned, that it's not good enough, and that you like you
Kate Harlow:need someone else to make you feel better. That's a little
Kate Harlow:girl needs someone else to make you feel better. The only time
Kate Harlow:we feel lonely is when we are not connected to ourselves.
Kate Harlow:Hello, beautiful. Kate Harlow here tuning in from the other
Kate Harlow:side of my Kenyan coastal holiday. Last episode, if you
Kate Harlow:listen to it, I was going on a spontaneous trip that was booked
Kate Harlow:the night before and flying out to Diani Beach, a coastal town
Kate Harlow:in Kenya. And if you don't know, I mean, I didn't know a lot
Kate Harlow:about Kenya before living here, Kenya's coast is absolutely
Kate Harlow:beautiful. It's like white sand, turquoise water. The ocean is
Kate Harlow:the Indian Ocean. It is the warmest ocean in the world. It
Kate Harlow:typically can get really hot there, but actually it was quite
Kate Harlow:windy, so it didn't get too hot. It was like the perfect amount
Kate Harlow:of humidity. We had our glow on, and I had the most extraordinary
Kate Harlow:time with my dear friends, rose and Jonathan. And it was such a
Kate Harlow:beautiful trip. And I did a post about it yesterday. If you're
Kate Harlow:not on socials, I'll share the post. I did share some photos
Kate Harlow:from the trip so you can go check it out at the unscripted
Kate Harlow:woman on Instagram. But I was just reflecting at when I got
Kate Harlow:back, my heart was so full, and I was like, Oh my gosh, my
Kate Harlow:friend's boyfriend basically treated us both like we were his
Kate Harlow:queens, like he took us on surprise dates. We went for
Kate Harlow:sunrise swims. It was this beautiful experience. Never once
Kate Harlow:did I feel like a third wheel. Never once did I feel like the
Kate Harlow:odd one out, or like, oh my god, I shouldn't be here. They're on
Kate Harlow:a couple's trip, even though it was a working holiday that we
Kate Harlow:all planned very spontaneously. And I realize it's because it's
Kate Harlow:the same idea as how I've told you before that I don't identify
Kate Harlow:with being single, like I'm just me, whether I'm in relationship
Kate Harlow:or not. Same concept here. It's like, even when I'm in a
Kate Harlow:relationship, I'm not like, a couple. You know, back in the
Kate Harlow:day, used to be a couple and be like, we what are we doing? Who
Kate Harlow:are we hanging out with? What couples are we going to dinner
Kate Harlow:with? And I feel like that's so rampant still. It's like people
Kate Harlow:identify so strongly with their relationship status, and then we
Kate Harlow:go into the single woman who's like, Oh God, I'm the only
Kate Harlow:single woman at the party at the event. Like, I don't want to be
Kate Harlow:the only single person there. Why do we constantly separate
Kate Harlow:ourselves from each other with these relational labels? It
Kate Harlow:makes no sense, but it's part of the program, and we all just
Kate Harlow:kind of are programmed, and then we just live from the program,
Kate Harlow:without realizing we're in the program, until we wake up from
Kate Harlow:the program. So I'm here to wake you up from the program. You are
Kate Harlow:you? Are you? Whether you're in relationship or not, whether
Kate Harlow:you're married, divorced, widowed, it doesn't matter you
Kate Harlow:are you? And I'm pretty sure I said this last episode. I
Kate Harlow:vaguely recall saying this very recently, but I think it's such
Kate Harlow:an important point to drill home, because I don't experience
Kate Harlow:separating myself ever from anyone, never. I'm not like, oh,
Kate Harlow:I mean Kenya, and I'm not a Kenyan person, like, I'm never
Kate Harlow:separating myself from people. I'm connecting. I'm connecting
Kate Harlow:with everyone and starting with myself. And because of that, I
Kate Harlow:experienced experiences like this, where I can go have an
Kate Harlow:epic weekend with my friends that are a couple, and not feel
Kate Harlow:like a weirdo that's on a in a throuple. Not that there's
Kate Harlow:anything wrong with being in a throttle if you're into that,
Kate Harlow:but like, not feel like the third wheel, right? That's such
Kate Harlow:a saying. Well, I'm the third wheel. I don't want to be the
Kate Harlow:third wheel. Like we constantly separate ourselves with labels.
Kate Harlow:So that's what I'm going to share. First, secondly, I'm just
Kate Harlow:thinking about our minds and how much our minds try and take us
Kate Harlow:out of what's aligned for us. So my mind the night before was
Kate Harlow:like, No, this is irresponsible. You shouldn't make a decision so
Kate Harlow:last minute, and I'm so glad I did. We had the most amazing
Kate Harlow:time. I came back feeling so replenished and and rejuvenated.
Kate Harlow:And I still worked while I was there, but I can work from
Kate Harlow:anywhere because I set it up that way. And now I'm going back
Kate Harlow:to olapangi Farm. My mom and dad are coming to Kenya in a few
Kate Harlow:days. They're actually on a plane right now, flying to
Kate Harlow:London, and now I'm getting to go back to Ola pengi
Kate Harlow:replenished. So part of me was like, Oh, I don't want to leave
Kate Harlow:Nairobi. I'm only here for two weeks. But that was such a heart
Kate Harlow:Yes, in the moment that I followed that instead of all the
Kate Harlow:logical reasons why I should have stayed. So I had a similar
Kate Harlow:experience with this again. Today I had a Swahili lesson,
Kate Harlow:and I haven't had a lesson since, I think before Christmas,
Kate Harlow:maybe, or at least since December. And I get on with my
Kate Harlow:teacher, and I said to her, Listen, I'm so busy. My parents
Kate Harlow:are coming. Then I'm doing a workshop on Valentine's Day at
Kate Harlow:olupengi, and then I'm doing a retreat at olopengi. I just
Kate Harlow:can't do Swahili right now, like, I think I need to move our
Kate Harlow:lessons to march and get back into it then. And she's like, No
Kate Harlow:problem. Do you want to cancel today? And I said, No, let's do
Kate Harlow:today, and then we won't do anything till March. And I what
Kate Harlow:was actually coming up was fear. I was having struggles with my
Kate Harlow:Swahili, feeling like it was getting hard, and my saboteur
Kate Harlow:got so sneaky and tried to take me out, but instead today we did
Kate Harlow:the lesson, and I asked her to review stuff, and we and I was
Kate Harlow:like, conjugating verbs, and like doing all these putting
Kate Harlow:sentences together, and it was so much fun. It was the opposite
Kate Harlow:of what my mind said it was going to be and as soon as we
Kate Harlow:finished, I was like, You know what? Don't listen to me anymore
Kate Harlow:every time I try and talk myself out of it, talk me back into it,
Kate Harlow:or just let me go through my wave. And I ended up doing
Kate Harlow:booking a class for next week. Even though my parents are here,
Kate Harlow:I can still get on an hour long Swahili class on Zoom. So
Kate Harlow:anyways, just two examples of two things that my saboteur
Kate Harlow:tried to take me out of because she's sneaky, right? She like,
Kate Harlow:I've been on this path for 20 years, and I'm pretty good at
Kate Harlow:listening to my heart and my compass. But it doesn't mean
Kate Harlow:that the saboteur thoughts aren't still there. And it's
Kate Harlow:like, how do you listen to them? How do you negotiate with them.
Kate Harlow:How like do you let that part of you take you out? Because every
Kate Harlow:time you do something new, it's going to feel uncomfortable,
Kate Harlow:right? Swahili is new. So the part of me that got shamed and
Kate Harlow:shut down in school, that got that got told I was stupid, or
Kate Harlow:inferred I was stupid, or put into a stupid group, like you
Kate Harlow:know how they do at school. So they make some people, some kids
Kate Harlow:feel really smart, and some kids feel really stupid. I left the
Kate Harlow:school system feeling like an idiot, and so every time I feel
Kate Harlow:like I don't know something, my system gets a bit flooded, and
Kate Harlow:my saboteur wants to run for the hills. That's what just
Kate Harlow:happened. But when I leaned into the discomfort, instead of
Kate Harlow:letting the running for the hills happen, I ended up having
Kate Harlow:an amazing lesson and realized how smart I actually am. So
Kate Harlow:these protective mechanisms were just there because at the time,
Kate Harlow:we were treated poorly, we were controlled, we were treated
Kate Harlow:unfairly, and we were shamed, and that lives in the body
Kate Harlow:still. So yeah, get uncomfortable. Anyways, let's
Kate Harlow:get into the episode so how to navigate the ache for
Kate Harlow:partnership when you are single, and everything I said about
Kate Harlow:labels is so relevant to this episode. So first thing I want
Kate Harlow:to acknowledge is how real the ache is. I get it. My loves. I
Kate Harlow:get it. I know. And I know there are some of you who listen to
Kate Harlow:the new truth, who've been single forever, and maybe you're
Kate Harlow:like, Oh my God, is he ever coming? Will I ever have love?
Kate Harlow:Maybe I'll be alone forever. And I know how frustrating that can
Kate Harlow:be. In fact, I walked alongside one of my best friends was
Kate Harlow:single for like, 13 years, pretty much since we met, she
Kate Harlow:had a couple, like, really short, kind of toxic
Kate Harlow:relationships in our long friendship, but she was in deep
Kate Harlow:ache about being single, not not really about being single.
Kate Harlow:Actually, let me reframe that she really loved her life and
Kate Harlow:had had created so much for herself, but there was this,
Kate Harlow:like deep desire for partnership. Because I think on
Kate Harlow:a soul level, she knew that there was a big partnership
Kate Harlow:coming. And sure enough, I don't know, three years ago, she got
Kate Harlow:married in 2024
Kate Harlow:but three years ago, she met the greatest love of her life, I'll
Kate Harlow:say, because I don't think that there's necessarily just one,
Kate Harlow:but the greatest love that she's had thus far in this man. I have
Kate Harlow:no doubt that they'll keep growing and evolving together.
Kate Harlow:That's absolutely possible, but they are so aligned and so
Kate Harlow:matched in partnership. When I met him, I was like, Oh, there
Kate Harlow:you are. And I always knew that she would have it one day. And I
Kate Harlow:remember at the time whenever she would be suffering around
Kate Harlow:it, just saying, like, trust me, it's coming at the right time,
Kate Harlow:at the perfect time, and it can't come a moment sooner,
Kate Harlow:because she had to become the woman that she is now, and he
Kate Harlow:had to become the man he is now. And if we look at their life
Kate Harlow:trajectory, I mean so many things inside of them had to
Kate Harlow:change for them to even be a match if they had met five years
Kate Harlow:earlier. First of all, he was married with kids, so it
Kate Harlow:wouldn't have they wouldn't have met. And. And neither of them
Kate Harlow:were in a healthy, thriving, beautiful place to have an
Kate Harlow:aligned partnership with each other, so they probably wouldn't
Kate Harlow:even have liked each other. We actually joke about this a lot.
Kate Harlow:They're like I don't think I would have liked you if I met
Kate Harlow:you when you were like that, because they both were so deeply
Kate Harlow:on their path of evolution. So it's not to say when you're
Kate Harlow:growing that you can't attract love. You're going to attract it
Kate Harlow:when you're meant to attract it. You're going to attract it at
Kate Harlow:the perfect time on your timeline. And your timeline is
Kate Harlow:not the scripted timeline I'm talking about, like the soul
Kate Harlow:timeline that the universe has in store for you. And you're not
Kate Harlow:going to attract aligned love until a moment sooner. But if
Kate Harlow:you're in a hurry for love and you're aching for partnership
Kate Harlow:and you're trying to control love or trying to get it, you
Kate Harlow:certainly can attract saboteur love. You'll attract more
Kate Harlow:lessons and more hard, challenging relationships that
Kate Harlow:that allow you to reveal your patterns more and and you know
Kate Harlow:where you get to learn more about what's happening
Kate Harlow:underneath the surface, what part of you is leading. You can
Kate Harlow:have that for sure, but I didn't even plan to say this. It's
Kate Harlow:really like it's not up to us when we attract love. And you
Kate Harlow:know, looking at my besties journey, it actually was really
Kate Harlow:beautiful to witness. And she said, in retrospect, like, God,
Kate Harlow:I wish I could have enjoyed that time more. I wish, on some
Kate Harlow:level, I could have just known, you know, this year your love is
Kate Harlow:going to show up, because they have such a beautiful love, and
Kate Harlow:doesn't come without challenges, but they're just super aligned
Kate Harlow:partnership and but she's like, I wish I didn't waste all those
Kate Harlow:years on my own. I wish I lived them up and loved being with
Kate Harlow:myself knowing that I was also going to be with a partner one
Kate Harlow:day. So this story feels so important for you to hear and
Kate Harlow:really let it sink in, because the ache is real, the desire for
Kate Harlow:partnership is real, although part of that comes from our
Kate Harlow:programming, right? I think that there's part of it that's
Kate Harlow:biological, where we desire intimacy and closeness with
Kate Harlow:other people, and so much of the push and the rush and the
Kate Harlow:attachment and the trying to control the timing and or or
Kate Harlow:like pushing love away all together out of fear that you're
Kate Harlow:not lovable or not good enough underneath whatever your story
Kate Harlow:is, all of that to be said, there is a divine time for
Kate Harlow:everything, and it's actually not your job, nor is it in your
Kate Harlow:control, to figure out when love is coming. So I just want to
Kate Harlow:validate your ache and tell you I love you and I see you and I
Kate Harlow:feel you. And number one, most important thing is for you to
Kate Harlow:let yourself feel the ache in the moments it's there, but
Kate Harlow:relinquish the story about it, the story that even the story
Kate Harlow:like, if I could go back and help my bestie back in the day,
Kate Harlow:it's like, and she would agree with all of this, because She's
Kate Harlow:like, damn, I wish I enjoyed that time. Like, let go of the
Kate Harlow:story that you're even a single woman. You see how this label
Kate Harlow:keeps you feeling like you're in a temporary state. You're in a
Kate Harlow:holding pattern, waiting for the next relationship to come,
Kate Harlow:waiting for this temporary position to be over. And it
Kate Harlow:becomes this time of suffering for most women only because of
Kate Harlow:our conditioning, because the reality is, you can experience
Kate Harlow:so much love and intimacy in your life without a partner. You
Kate Harlow:can experience so much love and intimacy in your life without a
Kate Harlow:partner and not need a relationship. And when you are
Kate Harlow:experiencing so much love and intimacy in your life and not
Kate Harlow:needing a relationship, not from a place of being shut down, but
Kate Harlow:from a place of, like, you're so alive and satiated and turned on
Kate Harlow:and lit up the you don't need a partnership, that you're just
Kate Harlow:like, so happy within yourself. That's when you attract aligned
Kate Harlow:love. All of my clients do when they get to that place like,
Kate Harlow:Okay, I won't say all when the time is right, right, but I've
Kate Harlow:attracted I've worked with so many women over the years who
Kate Harlow:have been in that state of aching and, you know,
Kate Harlow:frustration and agony and judgment and shame about being
Kate Harlow:single, like they have some plague, like there's some
Kate Harlow:disease, it's something wrong with them. And when they meet
Kate Harlow:me. They're like, I just want to find him. And I'm like, my love.
Kate Harlow:If you are aching for something outside of yourself and you
Kate Harlow:haven't activated it inside of yourself, you are being misled,
Kate Harlow:because the ache never goes away, even when you get love,
Kate Harlow:then your mind will find something else to ache for. It's
Kate Harlow:going to ache for the for the move in, for the I Love You, for
Kate Harlow:the ring, for the house, for the kids, for the picket fence. It's
Kate Harlow:going to it's going to ache for all of those things and then,
Kate Harlow:and once you're done there, it's like, oh, I need a new job. Oh,
Kate Harlow:I need a new need to lose 10 pounds. It's not going to ever
Kate Harlow:stop knocking on. Door and aching for something, because
Kate Harlow:it's a fantasy. There is an absolute bullshit fantasy story
Kate Harlow:that once you have love, you won't feel lonely anymore. Once
Kate Harlow:you have love, you won't feel not good enough anymore. You
Kate Harlow:won't feel unworthy anymore or unlovable, all the all that
Kate Harlow:murky stuff, that little version of you underneath is feeling,
Kate Harlow:but the truth is, wherever you go, there you are. That is a
Kate Harlow:book. I don't know the author's name, but I'm sure I've said
Kate Harlow:that before. Wherever you go, there you are. You are bringing
Kate Harlow:all of that into your relationship. Your relationship
Kate Harlow:is not the answer. Partnership is not the answer. So how to
Kate Harlow:navigate the ache is first, to let yourself be with the
Kate Harlow:feelings when they arise, without feeding the story. Now
Kate Harlow:we've talked about this a million times, but to learn to
Kate Harlow:actually just feel the ache, feel it. Put on some music, do
Kate Harlow:some interpretive dance. Pretend you're a, oh, that's when, when
Kate Harlow:they used to do the, what was that dance reality TV show? So
Kate Harlow:You Think You Can Dance. Whenever they did contemporary
Kate Harlow:dances, and they were it was like, really emotional, like a
Kate Harlow:breakup dance, and they'd be like, Oh, I just love those
Kate Harlow:where they be playing out the emotion through movement. Go do
Kate Harlow:some to contemporary dance class. I actually forgot about
Kate Harlow:contemporary till this moment. Go take some contemporary dance
Kate Harlow:classes and learn how to how to express your emotion through
Kate Harlow:movement. Do some online. Go to one. Go to some in person. Like,
Kate Harlow:how powerful would that be to be able to actually just act out
Kate Harlow:your feelings through movement? Right? That's a great
Kate Harlow:opportunity. Or sing like I talked about singing Celine Dion
Kate Harlow:all by myself. Or sing lonely, I am so lonely. Remember that
Kate Harlow:song, I think all by myself is more powerful because it's so
Kate Harlow:intense. But there's so many alone songs that you could sing,
Kate Harlow:I'm a creep. No, I'm a creep that's not alone. I don't know.
Kate Harlow:There's lots of alone songs so you find them, but it's like,
Kate Harlow:ham it up. Sing it at the top of your lungs. Let yourself cry
Kate Harlow:your eyes out. Write about it. Move your body, move the energy,
Kate Harlow:welcome the feeling, welcome the ache, but don't feed the story.
Kate Harlow:Okay? And let go of the labels. You got to let go of the label.
Kate Harlow:Like, let's abolish this label of single altogether. Next time
Kate Harlow:someone says, How are you still single, or are you single, say,
Kate Harlow:No, I'm just me, or I'm I'm Kate, are you single? No, I'm
Kate Harlow:Kate. Like, find little
Kate Harlow:ways to or if someone says, How are you still single? Ask, how
Kate Harlow:are they they still married? I did a I did an Instagram that my
Kate Harlow:first reel, and I haven't done many since, but one of the only
Kate Harlow:reels I ever did little skits was me playing two different
Kate Harlow:women. And one said, How are you still single? You're such a
Kate Harlow:catch. And then the other version of me said, How are you
Kate Harlow:still married? Because, like, that's a real question, you
Kate Harlow:know, I guarantee. I mean, there's been countless studies
Kate Harlow:done about single women being the happiest, single women over
Kate Harlow:40 being the happiest people on Earth, and men that are married
Kate Harlow:are the happiest on earth because they don't have to worry
Kate Harlow:about anything. So there's studies that show that single
Kate Harlow:women are happier, and yet all married women want single women
Kate Harlow:to be married or to be in relationship like again, feeding
Kate Harlow:that story that it's the plague. If you're single and you got to
Kate Harlow:get rid of it, you got to get rid of this state. So let go of
Kate Harlow:the label altogether. Because even the label of being a
Kate Harlow:couple, you're you, you're not even your name, you're you,
Kate Harlow:you're a soul, you're infinite, and we, we just limit ourselves
Kate Harlow:so much with all of this bullshit, all of the
Kate Harlow:programming, all of the codependent love, the the
Kate Harlow:majority of the love, the relationships, I won't even call
Kate Harlow:it love, the relationships that exist on planet Earth are
Kate Harlow:codependent, like most relationships, are codependent,
Kate Harlow:but something else is available to you when you stop looking to
Kate Harlow:someone else to be your source, when you stop externally
Kate Harlow:sourcing your love, your turn on, your joy, your your beauty,
Kate Harlow:right? If we're always looking to the external world to tell us
Kate Harlow:if we're enough. That's coming from your wound now you're in a
Kate Harlow:wound mate relationship, right? The only way you're going to
Kate Harlow:attract healthy, thriving, Soul level love is when you're
Kate Harlow:embodying it. So actually, I'll make the first plug right now
Kate Harlow:for my workshop coming up. I have a new workshop that I just
Kate Harlow:created for Valentine's Day. It will be on February 8, so it'll
Kate Harlow:be the weekend before Valentine's Day, to set you up
Kate Harlow:for success for the week. But it's called embodied love, and I
Kate Harlow:love that title so much. And I'm going to guide you where we'll
Kate Harlow:be live on Zoom. It's only $22 it can be. About two and a half
Kate Harlow:hours on a Sunday morning, and I would love to meet you. Loved
Kate Harlow:for you to join me and the group of amazing women, even if you're
Kate Harlow:in a relationship and you're just longing for more love,
Kate Harlow:aching for more meaningful love and connection, this is the
Kate Harlow:place to be, but I'm going to guide you through practices and
Kate Harlow:through a process to help you become embodied in love, because
Kate Harlow:it's not outside of you. And I know that, like the whole
Kate Harlow:premise of the new truth is this, and yet we have to hear
Kate Harlow:this message 10 million times, because guess what? The message
Kate Harlow:that love is going to one day rescue you or save you or it's
Kate Harlow:going to come sweep you off your feet. That messaging is
Kate Harlow:everywhere. It's everywhere. It's in the water you drink.
Kate Harlow:It's in the air you breathe. Every time you turn on Netflix,
Kate Harlow:every time you turn on turn on the TV, every time you watch a
Kate Harlow:movie, every time you listen to the radio, it is everywhere.
Kate Harlow:Everyone is feeding the fantasy story about love and that it it
Kate Harlow:somehow gives us something and saves us and rescues us.
Kate Harlow:Instagram, social media, like, God, all the Instagrams are
Kate Harlow:people like, look at our relationship, and then inside
Kate Harlow:the relationship, they're not having sex, they're not having
Kate Harlow:meaningful conversations. They're not talking about what's
Kate Harlow:really going on. They're having affairs like whatever. Like so
Kate Harlow:many relationships are so dysfunctional because
Kate Harlow:everybody's just trying to keep up the facade that they have the
Kate Harlow:fantasy love and the fantasy life, but it's not real. Why?
Kate Harlow:Because it's not out there. And this doesn't mean that you're
Kate Harlow:not going to attract when your time is right, when it's the
Kate Harlow:perfect time in your time lifetime line you're not going
Kate Harlow:to know until you experience it. You are going to have the most
Kate Harlow:amazing love, but the but the most important thing is you
Kate Harlow:won't be able to receive it if you don't deepen the love within
Kate Harlow:yourself before it comes. And also, if you're in a
Kate Harlow:relationship, of course, you can do it then too. But it's like
Kate Harlow:when the idea is when love comes, then I will feel a
Kate Harlow:certain way. No, it's the other way around, feel a certain way.
Kate Harlow:Create a life that feels a certain way. Activate these
Kate Harlow:parts of yourself that you long for to be met in another person,
Kate Harlow:and you will then become a magnet to that caliber of
Kate Harlow:person. It's called being met in relationship, right? We think we
Kate Harlow:need like this kind of man and that kind of man and this kind
Kate Harlow:of man, what you are, woman, whatever you're into, that what
Kate Harlow:we actually need in relationship is the person who's an energetic
Kate Harlow:match to who we are, and you can't know from your mind what
Kate Harlow:that even is, and the person who's going to expand you beyond
Kate Harlow:anything you've experienced before. Expanded love means love
Kate Harlow:that grows you, love that expands possibility, that
Kate Harlow:challenges what you thought you wanted and needed. Like expanded
Kate Harlow:love is not going to look how you thought it was going to
Kate Harlow:look, but it's going to feel 10 million times better. But you
Kate Harlow:got to start with expanding within. So the last point is
Kate Harlow:become the become the love. Become the one, because you are
Kate Harlow:the one, and stop looking for him out there. Stop aching for
Kate Harlow:something out there that's a fantasy. If you're laying in bed
Kate Harlow:every night like, oh, I don't want to be single anymore.
Kate Harlow:You're going to a wedding, and you're like, Oh my God, when
Kate Harlow:it's going to be my turn? If you're in that fantasy story,
Kate Harlow:and you just keep pumping it up and giving it more material and
Kate Harlow:more material, you're feeding yourself a lie. Because my love
Kate Harlow:and I'm going to tell you this over and over and over and over
Kate Harlow:again, and you're you're going to get it and forget and get it
Kate Harlow:and forget, so don't worry about it, but
Kate Harlow:you will not find it out there. You will think you did right?
Kate Harlow:Your saboteur be like, Oh my God, we've arrived. Here he is,
Kate Harlow:and you'll have an amazing month until he doesn't text you, or
Kate Harlow:until something goes wrong, or still some behavior changes. And
Kate Harlow:then little girl gets activated, and she's like, wait, the ops
Kate Harlow:gone. Is he coming back? And you're you'll be hooked and
Kate Harlow:hooked and hooked. And in that roller coaster dynamic,
Kate Harlow:avoidant, anxious little girl, teenage boy, like, ooh, it's
Kate Harlow:that is, like, so exhausting. And you are a queen, and I see
Kate Harlow:so much more for you. So you can keep doing that if you want. You
Kate Harlow:can keep thinking it's out there. You can keep feeding that
Kate Harlow:story that you have to have a partner. Where is he? You can
Kate Harlow:keep feeding Carrie Bradshaw. There you go. That was her
Kate Harlow:story, right? We all watched that growing up, and it
Kate Harlow:programmed the neuro pathways in our brain to think that that's
Kate Harlow:normal and that Mr. Big, who is actually a narcissist, is
Kate Harlow:somewhere out there going to rescue us from our lives and
Kate Harlow:give us that romantic can't live without each other, love that
Kate Harlow:we've all been longing for. Ah, it's not real. But guess what?
Kate Harlow:The real thing is like, way juicier than that is way better
Kate Harlow:than that. I. Promise you. And the reality is, you do. You feel
Kate Harlow:it all the time, not just when you're with your partner or when
Kate Harlow:you're on a date. You get to feel it all the time when you
Kate Harlow:become it. So you have to become essentially the partner that
Kate Harlow:you're longing for and aching for, and become that to
Kate Harlow:yourself. So here's some practices. What do you want
Kate Harlow:someone to do for you in a loving connection, if you were
Kate Harlow:in a new partnership and it was so juicy and so meaningful and
Kate Harlow:so loving and so supportive and exactly the type of love you
Kate Harlow:desire, what would be happening inside of it? Would you be going
Kate Harlow:on date nights? Would you be going on trips? Would you be
Kate Harlow:would he be writing you love letters? I say He fill in the
Kate Harlow:blank? Would he be surprising you with gifts? What I mean?
Kate Harlow:These are all the love languages. But what would you
Kate Harlow:want to be romanced by this human now? Turn it inward, all
Kate Harlow:of those things that you desire. Do it to yourself, put on music
Kate Harlow:every day, every time you come home, serenade yourself with the
Kate Harlow:most romantic music, like candles. Do some dancing, make
Kate Harlow:yourself the most beautiful dinner, and imagine you're
Kate Harlow:making it with with someone else. Write yourself love
Kate Harlow:letters like give yourself that love. Become the partner that
Kate Harlow:you long for. And then, when little you arises and you're
Kate Harlow:deeply emotional, become the divine mama that she needs,
Kate Harlow:right? Be all of these things to yourself, there is no greater
Kate Harlow:power you can access than becoming her, becoming the one.
Kate Harlow:And then, oh my gosh, everything is so much brighter and more
Kate Harlow:beautiful. You're, you know, there it will open up so many
Kate Harlow:more possibilities for love, and you will become so much more
Kate Harlow:attractive to high quality partners, because you're
Kate Harlow:sovereign, because you take responsibility not just for your
Kate Harlow:pain, but also for your pleasure, right? If a man shows
Kate Harlow:up and he doesn't have to make you happy, he's going to be a
Kate Harlow:lot happier, and it's going to be a lot more easeful and easy
Kate Harlow:to have a deeply inspiring, beautiful, meaningful
Kate Harlow:relationship with you, right? He's going to be a lot more open
Kate Harlow:to intimacy when you're not looking for him to give you
Kate Harlow:something. It is a game changer. So there is so much more
Kate Harlow:available for you to experience when you stop looking for that
Kate Harlow:person to rescue you, when you stop looking for that person to
Kate Harlow:save you from your pain. It's not going to save you from your
Kate Harlow:pain. And here's the thing, if loneliness is the part of you
Kate Harlow:that is dating, if loneliness is the part of you that's choosing
Kate Harlow:a partner that's trying to find love, you are not going to
Kate Harlow:attract a healthy relationship. Why? Because that's a saboteur
Kate Harlow:setup for a saboteur relationship. Because loneliness
Kate Harlow:is simply a feeling that you feel because you're believing a
Kate Harlow:story, that the state that you're in and what you're
Kate Harlow:experiencing right now is not right, that it's not aligned,
Kate Harlow:that it's not good enough, and that you like you need someone
Kate Harlow:else to make you feel better. That's a little girl needs
Kate Harlow:someone else to make you feel better. The only time we feel
Kate Harlow:lonely is when we are not connected to ourselves. A dear
Kate Harlow:friend of mine shared she was at this experience in Kenya, at
Kate Harlow:this amazing resort, and it was like a really, really, really
Kate Harlow:high end resort with the wealthiest people in the world.
Kate Harlow:And the thing she said to me is, I cannot believe how
Kate Harlow:disconnected all of these people are. I can't believe how to
Kate Harlow:nobody even smiles. And these people have everything, right?
Kate Harlow:There's another fantasy, once you have more money and more
Kate Harlow:success and more this, more that, then you'll be happy.
Kate Harlow:These people are experiencing the most profound traveling
Kate Harlow:journeys in Africa, where they're getting to go to, like
Kate Harlow:crazy resorts that are privately owned, just on a conservation
Kate Harlow:you have to fly in a helicopter to get there, like over the top
Kate Harlow:wealth. And they're so disconnected. Those people, I
Kate Harlow:guarantee, are lonely, right? There's a lot of women who are
Kate Harlow:married to the quote, unquote, love of their life, even loving
Kate Harlow:healthy relationships, and they're lonely A F, because
Kate Harlow:they're not home inside of themselves, right? So we've
Kate Harlow:bought into this lie and this illusion that I'll stop being
Kate Harlow:lonely when I have a partner, or I'll stop being lonely when I
Kate Harlow:have better friends, or I'll stop being lonely when I live
Kate Harlow:with people. Maybe I should get some roommates and stop being
Kate Harlow:lonely, and then all of a sudden, you want to kill all
Kate Harlow:your roommates because they're driving you crazy, because
Kate Harlow:people aren't the answer to your loneliness. Coming home to
Kate Harlow:yourself is actually the only answer to loneliness, coming
Kate Harlow:home to yourself. Reconnecting with your own heart and your own
Kate Harlow:soul and living from that place, because when you live from your
Kate Harlow:heart and soul, you won't feel lonely anymore, because you'll
Kate Harlow:be home. What you're actually lonely for is you. What you're
Kate Harlow:actually aching for, plot twist is you. You're not aching for
Kate Harlow:someone else. Yes, it feels nice to snuggle and to make love, but
Kate Harlow:it feels a whole lot nicer when you can actually receive it
Kate Harlow:because you're home and you can satiate it, and you can actually
Kate Harlow:appreciate it, but not be holding on to it so tightly that
Kate Harlow:you need more, more, more, more like you can have these
Kate Harlow:beautiful life experiences and fully receive them without
Kate Harlow:holding on to them so tightly because that person cannot
Kate Harlow:satiate that part of you. The only part of you that feels
Kate Harlow:lonely is the Wounded Little girl. Why? Because she's not
Kate Harlow:home. And why is she not home? Because when you were a kid, you
Kate Harlow:were pulled away from the truth of who you are. You were pulled
Kate Harlow:away from yourself. That's why you feel lonely, because you've
Kate Harlow:been living in your fake, conditioned self, your your
Kate Harlow:saboteur, all of these years, thinking it's you and then
Kate Harlow:chasing all of these things to feel good. And nothing ever
Kate Harlow:makes you feel good long term, right under at the end of the
Kate Harlow:day, you keep going to bed feeling not good enough, like
Kate Harlow:you're not enough, you're not beautiful enough, you're not
Kate Harlow:smart enough, you're not worthy enough, you're not lovable
Kate Harlow:enough, you don't belong. All of that shit goes on because you
Kate Harlow:were pulled away from the truth of who you are. But when you
Kate Harlow:become rooted in the truth of who you are, rooted in the true,
Kate Harlow:sovereign heroine, woman that you are, and you become the
Kate Harlow:heroine, the leading lady of your own life, loneliness is a
Kate Harlow:fleeting feeling that you will very rarely feel and it will
Kate Harlow:only be an indicator that you're not home. It is you that you
Kate Harlow:ache for. It is your own heart and your own soul that you long
Kate Harlow:for. It is not someone else. You will absolutely enjoy
Kate Harlow:relationships and meaningful sisterhood, connections,
Kate Harlow:friendships, you know, as you deepen into your relationship
Kate Harlow:with yourself. As you come home to yourself, you will absolutely
Kate Harlow:get to satiate in all of the connections and intimacy, but
Kate Harlow:you won't be attached to it. So when I was in my saboteur all
Kate Harlow:the time, when I lived from the place of sacrifice and people
Kate Harlow:pleasing and over functioning and trying to pretend I was
Kate Harlow:perfect, and faking it, and shape shifting, and all of the
Kate Harlow:all of these things, hiding how I really felt in fantasy that I
Kate Harlow:was going to be rescued when I lived from that place, I was
Kate Harlow:lonely all the time. I remember sitting in a room full of my
Kate Harlow:friends who I loved to the moon, and I felt like I didn't belong,
Kate Harlow:and I felt like I wasn't enough, and I felt like I was alone
Kate Harlow:inside of this room full of people gonna go home and feel
Kate Harlow:even lonelier
Kate Harlow:because I just wasn't home inside of myself. So come home,
Kate Harlow:join us for a beautiful workshop on Sunday, February the eighth,
Kate Harlow:embodied love, so you can bring the feeling of embodied love
Kate Harlow:into your Valentine's week and rewrite that story completely,
Kate Harlow:that old, scripted, old, outdated Valentine's story, that
Kate Harlow:if you're a single woman on Valentine's Day, you're you
Kate Harlow:know, you're a loser, you better find love quick. And if you're a
Kate Harlow:woman in relationship, on Valentine's Day, your man better
Kate Harlow:show up and do all these things for you so that he proves his
Kate Harlow:love to you. And if not, you're going to feel worth worthless
Kate Harlow:and not good enough, not lovable, and all those things.
Kate Harlow:That's the old paradigm of Valentine's Day. You know, this
Kate Harlow:commercial holiday that I believe in love and love is
Kate Harlow:actually, I am a teacher of love. Love is my nature. It's
Kate Harlow:who I am in every sense of the word. I bring love everywhere I
Kate Harlow:go. I embody love in my life, and I therefore sprinkle love
Kate Harlow:everywhere I go. Actually, a friend of mine at Ola pangi said
Kate Harlow:to me, she's like, I feel like probably everyone at Ola pangi
Kate Harlow:thinks they're in a relationship with you, because I call them
Kate Harlow:all my love, and I have a close relationship with all of those,
Kate Harlow:like 45 staff, and I'm really close to all of them, because I
Kate Harlow:spent so much time there. And I was like, Yeah, that's probably
Kate Harlow:true, but like, you can be the embodiment of love. That is the
Kate Harlow:nature of who we are. And so let's rewrite this Valentine's
Kate Harlow:story, because love is a beautiful thing. You don't have
Kate Harlow:to be like, Oh, fuck, Valentine's Day. That's
Kate Harlow:ridiculous. That's a commercial holiday. You know? That's one
Kate Harlow:side of the pendulum. The other side of the pendulum is like, Oh
Kate Harlow:my God, I hope my partner proposes, or hope he does
Kate Harlow:something romantic so I feel worthy and good enough. Or I
Kate Harlow:hope I attract love by Valentine's Day. Or how am I
Kate Harlow:single again? Another Valentine's Day on my own, I'm
Kate Harlow:such a loser like these are the tapes that most women play on
Kate Harlow:Valentine's Day. And here is an opportunity. This is the month
Kate Harlow:of love. Actually, every month is the month of love, but let's
Kate Harlow:hone in on it. This month, February is the month of love.
Kate Harlow:So why do. You join us for this two and a half hour workshop.
Kate Harlow:It's only $22 and meet us on Zoom. Meet a whole bunch of
Kate Harlow:empowered women who are ready to do love differently and and get
Kate Harlow:some activations to become more embodied in love this week. So
Kate Harlow:you can bring the energy of love into work. You can bring the
Kate Harlow:energy of love into your connections, into everything you
Kate Harlow:do, and especially into your relationship with yourself so
Kate Harlow:you can pour love into yourself have a romantic Valentine's Day
Kate Harlow:by being the partner that you desire to have, by being that
Kate Harlow:partner to yourself, and by romancing yourself and giving
Kate Harlow:yourself everything that you want to get from someone else so
Kate Harlow:that your cup is overflowing. You're overflowing with love,
Kate Harlow:you're overflowing with with pleasure, you're overflowing
Kate Harlow:with connection and intimacy and the life in the universe can can
Kate Harlow:now, you know, deliver you whatever experiences you're
Kate Harlow:meant to have from that place. It is so much more fun to date
Kate Harlow:and have relationships. And, you know, do everything in life from
Kate Harlow:the energy of love. So many people just take life so
Kate Harlow:seriously. It's like, got to be professional now, got to be the
Kate Harlow:mom now, got to be the this, now got to be the that. And it's
Kate Harlow:like, what we all need is a lot more love. The Beatles had it
Kate Harlow:right all along. All we need is love, but like real love, which
Kate Harlow:is being the embodiment of love, so join us in the workshop. Link
Kate Harlow:is below this episode. You can go to my website, the unscripted
Kate Harlow:woman.com, and sign up there, and I can't wait to see you
Kate Harlow:there. Share this message in this episode with all your
Kate Harlow:friends you know who are aching and longing for love, and would
Kate Harlow:love to have them join us for the workshop too. I will see you
Kate Harlow:there. Send me a message if you have any questions at all, and
Kate Harlow:we'll see you next week. Happy. Love Day.