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Facing the Fear of Being Alone — Alyson and Tripp Lanier
Are you with someone because you really want them or because you’re more afraid to be alone?
Are you settling for junk food relationships that never satisfy and leave you feeling empty?
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And how does loneliness drive us to choose lousy partners?
Relationships are hard and the only way to learn is to get in the mix. Today Alyson and I find some friction when it comes to dating and playing the field. We also discuss how we’ve helped ourselves and others face their loneliness so that they don’t have to settle for lousy partners.
In this conversation:
- Settling for junk food relationships
- The fear of being alone
- Being a chameleon to avoid loneliness
- Playing the field
- How do you deal with loneliness?
Plus:
- Avoiding vulnerability and depth in relationships
- How does wholeness impact our relationship choices?
- Photoshopping our lives in order to be accepted and worthy
- If you date for X years should you get married?
- What makes relationships funky and weird?
About Tripp Lanier
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Tripp Lanier is a professional coach, author of This Book Will Make You Dangerous, and host of The New Man Podcast: Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp which — for over a decade — has been downloaded millions of times.
Since 2005, he has spent thousands of hours coaching people all around the world to get out of the rat race, become an authority in their field, and make a great living doing the work they were put on this earth to do. Over the years he’s designed several businesses to support a simple lifestyle focused on freedom, ease, meaning, and fun.
If you’d like to learn more about coaching with Tripp Lanier visit TrippLanier.com.
About Alyson Lanier
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Alyson Lanier is a multifaceted expert at the intersection of psychological and spiritual healing. With a 30 year career in Psychotherapy that includes a BA, MA, and LPC in psychology, Alyson supplemented her education with extensive training and certifications in attachment work, Gestalt therapy, Transpersonal psychology, Shambhala Buddhism, internal family systems, and Psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. Her professional journey encompasses over 50,000 hours of therapeutic experience working with individuals, couples, families, children, and adolescents across clinical and private settings.
If you’d like to learn more about working with Alyson Lanier visit AlysonLanier.com